Donor, The
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‘It’s not ready! It’s uncut!’ Will said.
‘Don’t care. Wanna see it,’ Georgie said.
It was a deal.
*
It had been such very good news, all those months ago, because Heath Jones had died. Will had cleaned fingerprints and bloodstains thoroughly. He had shot accurately. The police did not suspect foul play and had escorted him to the hospital to be with his girls as the operations took place.
And his darling Georgie had written the perfect goodbye, the heart-wrenching note for which Will had always yearned.
TO MR JAMIESON
Ive failed. Ive missed the real thing. Ive never loved. Ive been a bad father.
I never read them stories, hugged them when they missed their mum, didn’t take them to school, watch them play netball, help them with their homework, cheer them up whenever they were down. I never loved them different but equal. I haven’t sat next to them at the kidney machine for hours on end, week after week as they wait to die. Ive not been that man. Ive been a bad man. Ive never done anything that wasn’t selfish. Never loved. It’s time for me to make up for it.
So this is my love story, my sacrifice, my gift. Im sorry to do this in front of anyone, but I need to make sure they go to the hospital with my body, pronto. Please, please, make sure both my girls get what they need from me.
At the bottom it was signed:
Heath Jones
Father
About the Author
Helen FitzGerald is one of thirteen children and grew up in Victoria, Australia. She nows lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children. Helen worked as a parole officer and social worker for over ten years. Her first novel, Dead Lovely, was published in 2007 and My Last Confession was published in 2009.
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