Pronto! Writings From Rome

Short Story: "Empty Chair" by Diana Rowe

Excerpt of Empty Chair

Thirty-five thousand feet above my problems, I decided that losing a husband is like losing your balance.  Since we had honeymooned in Italy, flying to Rome seemed a perfectly illogical place to get over my Sam's untimely death. Yet here I was, as usual, imbalanced and impractical but determined.  So far my accomplishments consisted of leaving my hotel and crossing the bustling Campo de' Fiori.  I zigzagged through a piazza filled with locals bartering among vendors for their share of the rainbow-colored produce.  At a quaint sidewalk café, I found a place to pretend to relax and met the widow who talked to her dead husband. 

September 2002    
ISBN:  0-9716638-7-4

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