My Mother's Diary: A Short Story
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A short story of loss, grief and a son's hope filled dream.
Simon is devastated by the sudden death of his mother – his whole life falls apart around him.
In an inebriated dream, Simon desperately tries to forewarn his mother of her illness in an attempt to
save her life and turn his own life around.
Steven Williams
Steve Williams was born in the small town of Aberdare in the South Wales valleys quite some time ago. Encouraged by his mother, herself a prolific reader, he began reading at a young age, and long before his teens was a lover of all things science fiction. At some point in his early teens he was introduced to Tolkien, and thereafter his head would be found more often than not in a fantasy novel. Steve attended Aberdare Boys Grammar school ( a big clue as to age) where he excelled, or at least did well, in maths and the sciences. In English language and literature he achieved a grade six at 'O' Level (another clue as to age) which anyone of a similar age will know is one level above a fail. He now fervently hopes that his appalling childhood grades are not readily apparent in his current work. Steve has been a paperboy, a labourer in both a Brickworks and a Dairy, a Coal Mine Surveyor, all before he moved into his penultimate career in Information Technology, where his final role was that of the Technical Manager in a Data Warehouse. What on earth is a Technical Manager you may ask. Steve himself, two years retired from the role, has still not a clue – somewhere between general dog's body and Jack of all trades was the nearest he got to an accurate description. Up until his first novel, A Man Returned, Steve has written nothing but technical documents and emails, thousands upon thousands of emails – but that is now changing big time. Steve lives in Staffordshire with his wife and childhood sweetheart, Pauline. They have two grown up sons and two wonderful grandchildren, Luke and Ella. Besides writing, Steve's hobbies are reading, badminton, an occasional walk around a gym, spending time with the grandchildren, and last but not least, making excuses for not going out shopping with the wife – writing comes in really handy there. Steve is currently furiously at work on his second book in the Dark Light series – watch this space!
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My Mother's Diary - Steven Williams
My Mother’s Diary
By Steven J Williams
My Mother’s Diary
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Dedication
This short story is dedicated to my mother, Margaret Rachael Williams, whose passing made me go through all the turmoil that is the first part of this story – I too wish I could have the time over to tell her how much I loved her, and how much I now miss her.
Margaret, Maggie or sometimes just plain Mag to her friends, Maggie stale cake to a small select few, Mum to us kids, Gran or Granny Wills to the grandchildren, Great Grandma Wills to Luke and one day, when she’s old enough, Ella will talk of her as Great Grandma Wills, too – I’ll make sure of that.
From my mother came my reading and writing skills, my ability with maths and logic and, most importantly, the ability to see another's points of view.
It’s from my mother that I got the depth of feeling to be able to write this story.
She made me who I am.
Mum's Passing
My mother passed away just over 18 months ago on 10th September 2010. It was a great shock to all of us; very, very sudden, and then she was with us no more. Yes she was 80 years of age, but she was young for her years, in attitude still a young woman, full of life. She had only stopped working a few years earlier, and before that she did not really need to work, did not need the money, she just loved to get out and meet people.
It hit us hard, very hard. At the time Sarah, my sister, took it the worst because she was closest to mum, saw her most days. To see them laughing and giggling with each other you would think they were sisters or best friends even. I suppose that was what they were really, best friends first, mother and daughter second.
My brother Andy was away at