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Authors: Teresa Schaeffer
I couldn’t see Douggie anywhere. Then I glimpsed him hiding under the kitchen table, curled into a ball sucking his thumb. Mum had made him stop doing that ages ago. I got down on my hands and knees on the lino and crawled between the wall of stockinged legs to join him. When I got close I heard him making a funny whimpering sound, like a dog that’s been locked out.
‘Douggie,’ I whispered. ‘Doug?’
He didn’t take the thumb out of his mouth, but he looked at me. He looked so scared that it made me feel brave and I put my hand on his back and patted him a bit.
He uncurled then and came to me, tried to bury himself in my puny wet chest.
I’m going to have to look after him. But I don’t know how.
Douggie’s not here today. They said he was too upset to come, too young. Not me though. I’m thirteen. Old enough for a funeral. Old enough to look after everyone. Douggie, and Mum too.
So I can’t jump in after Dad, no matter how much I want to.
Anyway, you never know what might happen. Remember Jesus? He died, but He wasn’t really dead. So I’ll wait.
I’ll wait three days.
I waited three days; I’ve waited three bloody years. God sucks.
Teresa Schaeffer is a novelist, screenwriter and film producer who currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Her most recent film project, Jack on the Rocks, is coming in the fall/winter of 2012 and other film projects are in the works.
A Forgotten Tomorrow is her second book in the Cutting Edge series. Her first work with Ransom Publishing was The Questions Within. A Forgotten Tomorrow marks her fourth published work.
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DONNA SHELTON
Bone Song
SHERRYL CLARK
Don’t Even Think It
HELEN ORME
Ecstasy
A. C. FLANAGAN
Gun Dog
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Hanging in the Mist
PETER LANCETT
Marty’s Diary
FRANCES CROSS
MindF**k
FANIE VILJOEN
Scarred Lions
FANIE VILJOEN
Seeing Red
PETER LANCETT
See You on the Backlot
THOMAS NEALEIGH
Stained
JOANNE HICHENS
The Finer Points of Becoming Machine
EMILY ANDREWS
The Only Brother
CAIAS WARD
The Questions Within
TERESA SCHAEFFER
Thrill Seekers
EDWINA SHAW
A Forgotten Tomorrow
TERESA SCHAEFFER
Series Editor: Peter Lancett
Published by Ransom Publishing Ltd.
Radley House, 8 St. Cross Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9HX, UK
www.ransom.co.uk
ISBN 978 178127 161 2
First published in 2011
This ebook edition published 2013
Copyright © 2011 Teresa Schaeffer
Front cover photograph: © clearviewimages
A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.
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