Waffles Are Only Goodbye for Now
ShortStory 1,500 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"War meant a new life for refrigeration unit B3RT4A—or Bertha, as her now-dead family liked to call her, before they’d been buried in the rubble of their kitchen. It meant she had to listen to the bomber-planes flying overhead day and night, had to hide in the dark so no one would see her, trapped under two thousand pounds of crumbling roof."
Content warnings 2
death-of-a-loved-onewar
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