Clara
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This is a short story about Clara—best be described as “a Clara”—who one day discovers a tall, elegantly dressed, and thus completely misplaced mystery woman in the local cemetery, standing over a grave that is never visited by anyone. Clara knows because the son of the couple buried there was Clara’s best and only friend in childhood.
Will curiosity get the better of Clara that day?
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Proceeds from sales will be donated to GATE - 'an international organization working on gender identity, sex characteristics and, more broadly, on bodily diversity issues.'
Hans M Hirschi
Hans M Hirschi has been writing stories since childhood. As an adult, the demands of corporate life put an end to his fiction for more than twenty years. A global executive in training, he has traveled the world and published several non-fiction titles as well as four well-received novels. The birth of his son provided him with the opportunity to rekindle his love of creative writing, where he expresses his deep passion for a better world through love and tolerance. Hans lives with his husband and son on a small island off the west coast of Sweden.
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Clara - Hans M Hirschi
Clara
Hans M Hirschi
Part of
NEVER TOO LATE
A collection of stories featuring
LGBTQIA characters aged 50+
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Clara
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This is a short story about Clara—best be described as a Clara
—who one day discovers a tall, elegantly dressed, and thus completely misplaced mystery woman in the local cemetery, standing over a grave that is never visited by anyone. Clara knows because the son of the couple buried there was Clara’s best and only friend in childhood.
Will curiosity get the better of Clara that day?
Table of Contents
Clara
About Hans M Hirschi
By Hans M Hirschi
Never Too Late
Beaten Track Publishing
Clara
Being old definitely had its advantages. People would get up from their seats, make room for her to sit down, even though Clara often felt that she was more agile than most fifty-year-olds. At eighty-four, she was still a force to be reckoned with.
She had been born the middle child. Her older brother, Charles, had gotten married early, but he’d been a loser, never amounting to much. Unlike her, he’d gotten married to his childhood sweetheart and produced an almost infinite number of offspring,