The World's Shortest Stories of Danny Phantom

by hammy ham ham

If you had but one minute, one ounce of memory, what would you remember? Every life has it's own story, and every story has it's gravest and grandest moments. A journey. Remember, a moment can hold a lifetime. How many lifetimes are held in these pages?

12. If Things Had Been Different

-If Things had been Different-

If things had been different, I wouldn't be standing here on her grave. I wouldn't be jabbing half a dozen lilies under the stone bearing her name in those runes. I wouldn't be watering the plush grass with my tears.

If Things had been different, I wouldn't be kneeling down to clear the stone of dust and dirt kicked up by the wind. I wouldn't be tracing every intricate letter with a hazmat covered glove. I wouldn't be crying over the shared plot of blessed land.

If things had been different, I wouldn't be feeling that familiar freeze of air on my hands. I wouldn't be grasping those cold, dead fingers in mine. I wouldn't be looking into those once lavender eyes, tears magnifying the beautiful golden hue they now held.

If things had been different, we wouldn't both be dead.