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Sense of life

Marla is sitting in her living room, eyes stuck to the TV, hoping to hear something new in the news, while she expects her husband Tyler to return from his nightly strolls. She had stopped asking him where he went or why he left every night just to return with swollen, bloodstained knuckles. Marla stopped imagining what he might be up to while being out, simply because she could no longer put up a fight after hearing the news that their only son, a passenger of the missing Boeing 777 had gone missing along with the rest of the plane. 

Since the disappearance of flight “MH370”, Marla had not once left the house, neither to go to work, nor to see her friends or do the shopping. However, there was no real need to do the shopping, as Marla had ceased to eat since the message was brought to her. Many people would think of her to have died at that point, and to a certain extend this might be true, but inside of her there still lies a spark of hope that all of this might just be a nightmare, soon to be awaken of.