Harboring Wells
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There is a sudden crash of a flying vehicle and two individuals end up landing in a lagoon of a green heavily natural landscape. It is quiet and the pair are alone, floating around in this small lagoon - unable to contact the rest of the world. The main character is one who dances around, musing herself with the other character who is practically dead, injured, almost catatonic. Instead of letting go, she tries to entertain this other sunken character with gestures of fun, soothing comforting, showing past photos and picture books. This odd preoccupation shadows the fact that lurking in the landscape is a force, which ends their lives both. What the story attempts to convey is a sense of memory, denial, and harboring feelings - precious time which has passed. The story and its title are based on a true account : On Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn., a 9-year-old boy who lived alone with his mother's corpse for a month sat solemnly at her military funeral and was given the American flag that had covered her coffin. Family friends dropping by for a visit on Dec. 6 (1999) found Travis Butler alone with the corpse. Crystal Wells, 30, who suffered from high blood pressure and breathing problems, apparently died of natural causes Nov. 3, though autopsy results are incomplete. Relatives say Travis feared being sent to a foster home, so he covered his mother's body with notebook paper and her coat and tried to carry on as usual. He attended school, fixed his own meals and even cut his own hair.
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