Fiction

Breaking Through the Soil

Part Three of “The Dig”

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Time grew irrelevant as the boy’s story unfolded into the morning. The boy’s name was Jay. His father left when he was too young to remember. His mother died when he was too old to ever forget. He had a sister that was much older than him. She raised him as a child and they lived together…