For Six Sentence Sunday another snippet from Through the Dark Clouds my contribution to the Dreamspinner Press 2011 Holiday Anthology. A story of love and hope on Christmas Eve 1940.

He pulled open the drawer of his bedside table wiggling it so it wouldn’t stick. Without even looking he pulled out an envelope and a single photo. He drew his finger along the scalloped edges of the photo and turned it a little toward the light. In it Robert stood straight and tall in his RCAF uniform with a half dozen other men in front of a British bomber. It had still been summer when the picture was taken and Robert had only been gone a handful of months with promises to be home before the next school term started. After all the war couldn’t last that long.