Granite Vigorously wiping off the dead grass and dandelion petals from the rock, the girl’s hand brushed a jagged edge roughly. As she quickly drew her hand away for examination, she saw what her hand had lain upon. The right upper corner of the baby’s headstone was broken off. She took a moment to contemplate her blood expanding into the crevices and gullies of the edge’s gap. She scanned the knoll ahead …showed first 75 words of 462 total…

…showed last 75 words of 462 total…of her parents and other brother felt every birthday and Mother’s Day they came. She heard a crash of lightning as the rain fell harder. She got up partially into an alter-praying position and asked God why this had to happen. After all, the baby hadn’t done a thing wrong. She thought, "Why should this baby have to die when I could have instead?" The baby was just a mythical figure until now.