Tag: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

January 8, 2014 / / Essays

A young boy with long curly blonde hair hunches over a gravestone, remembering his mother’s death; when she drowned to death and he could do nothing to save her. Later, when his big brother starts to swim across a creek, the little brother stands back and motions with his hands as if to say, “No freaking way I’m getting in there.”