'Snowflake Symphony'

I have completed my novel 'Snowflake Symphony' a portion of which I posted last year - in July, three posts back.

Here is a piece taken from a little way in, rather than the beginning, about Maggie, one of the few characters who appear. She and Sentinel are the central characters around which the novel forms.

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One day, when she was almost fourteen, her father had gone.

“Gone where?”

Not a question to be asked.

“Gone.”

Maggie took it at its value – a word with no sentiment, not much significance; a flat, ugly word.

“So what?” she retorted.

“Don't care then.”

“I won't.”

Maggie turned and left the kitchen.

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Now, he is dead; cremated; is nowhere. This she discovered in a few words spoken when she passed by her mother's house (for that is what it is) that he had left a cottage; 'more a shack' were the words.

“So that's where he went.”

“It must be sold.”

Maggie determined to visit prior to this event; made preparation, telling no one.'

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