A Story In
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“Not healthy,” Jan whispered to her surviving brother, peering into the darkened parlour where her mother sat, eyes fixed on the flickering screen of Brian’s cracked Smartphone.
Tom lifted and dropped his shoulders helplessly and returned to the closed-coffin wake in the other room.
Jan herself had only been able to watch the footage once: the glee of Brian hanging from a spar changing to terror as his grip had slipped.
The phone had been lucky enough to fall back onto the bridge.
Jan stared as her mother hit replay again. She’d even stopped sobbing.
“Friggin’ selfie generation,” she muttered.
From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid
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