My Grandfather Left Me Something They Never Wanted Me to See

taped beneath it…

A folded strip of paper.

My name written in my grandfather’s unmistakable handwriting.

In that moment…

I understood something that changed everything.

The funeral wasn’t the reason I had been called home.

It was only the beginning.

The Lighter

For a second I just looked at it.

The old lighter had a dent on one side from before I was born. continue reading …