https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn en-us 2018-03-19 22:12:53 UTC 2018-03-31 08:01:40 UTC hello@padlet.com aevans59 https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781541 - 'But it wasn't a high school boy. It was a small boy.' 
- 'A boy just as small as my brother.' 
- 'He was like an angel with his white hair and blue eyes - his skin so pale.' 
- 'My body was going to sleep  - becoming like stone like the floor, like the walls. The darkness was getting in.' 
- 'I could not help him.' 
- 'I fell asleep trying to listen - willing the snow to fall harder so it would cover up all of the greyness of this place. Until it made these old streets white and clean and new.' 
- 'The magic was gone.'

]]> 2018-03-19 22:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781541 aevans59 https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781565 - 'I don't remember getting here. I don't know how long I have been sitting here for.'
- 'I nod. I look at nothing.'
- 'No one can believe it. It's not real. It can't be right.'
- 'He pats me on the shoulder then, something he has never done. Like a father would. Like a brother.'
- 'Someone hands me a glass of whisky and I drink it down. Then another. Another.'
- 'He made you feel like freedom.'
- 'And I know from now on that the silence of Soren not talking will be terrifying. That it will be the loneliest sound of all.'
- 'If I'd just...'
- 'But when the captain closes Soren's eyes with the weight of his fingers, something inside me goes very cold.'

]]> 2018-03-19 22:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781565 aevans59 https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781597 - 'He didn't cry my brother, I didn't see him cry.'  
- 'I only saw his body shake - just a shudder, like something very small had collapsed inside his bones.' 
- ...I knew my brother really liked it because he carried it around with him for a long time after the party, after everyone had gone.' 
- 'My brother took the bag in his hand.' - 'Thanks,' he said. 
- 'They were all still holding hands.' 
- 'We drove to school the next day wearing our grey uniforms that offered no warmth and my brother was quiet again. Quiet and lost somewhere trying not to think about things.' 
- 'I just feel bad for her.' ]]> 2018-03-19 22:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781597 aevans59 https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781624 - 'She looked like a shepherd among her flock. She was like a shepherd - the children gathered around her, gathered close, under one of the old chestnut trees where kids played conkers at recess.'  ]]> 2018-03-19 22:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/z12quhejt3bn/wish/243781624