Heartbeat

• Samantha Mccormac, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2010

As Flora waited for something to happen, anything, even if it ment for her to get her mother some tissues.

Her family was perched over a hospital bed. Hoping, praying, that they would hear the heartbeat of the body lying in the middle of the bed. It was her father laying there, lifeless. Her whole family standing there not a word spoken.

Then it happpened...

A heartbeat...