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A review by alisbalik
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
4.75
I was swallowing the past pages with waiting pauses when going home. I stood looking in, not being able to unsee a crying boy in snow being blindly and silently beaten by an older woman. How I stood in shock and then went on frozen inside. As I was waiting, my entire body yearned to run and hide that boy in me, not letting anything hurt him. At least at that moment. I could have helped him at least then.
So many things get in the way of us acting on that cry from inside. Yet what happens if we do?
So many things get in the way of us acting on that cry from inside. Yet what happens if we do?