A Love Affair So Late In Life
By Jay Rayl
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"The problem of growing old is the prospect of losing things.
Jillian Anne Gilchrest was an old woman.
And she was losing things."
And after her husband of over forty years passed away and was lost to her, Jillian began a new life alone, secluding herself in the large two story house she had lived in since the day she was wed.
But now she has agreed to her daughter's request that she take in a lodger. And the young man who occupies the small room at the end of the hallway will come to change her life in a most remarkable way.
Jay Rayl
Besides an author of novels, short stories and poetry, Jay Allen Rayl has enjoyed working as an amateur filmmaker, in the theater as an actor and stage director of dramas, comedies and musicals, as well as an award-winning photographer and artist.His short feature From Another Dream was screened at the Orange County Amateur Film-makers Showcase in 1975.Prior to that, he enjoyed performing character roles in college productions and then in community theater, where he went on to direct such shows as Blithe Spirit, The Man Who Came To Dinner, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma and Camelot.His literary works can be sampled and purchased at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords. Some of those titles include Raising Lazarus, Kilroy Was Here, The Minerva Vendettas and The Evening Meal.When not engaged in painting, photography or writing, the author enjoys the diversion of sitting down at the piano with a go at Chopin or Rachmaninov, or simply picking up his classical guitar and playing the likes of Tarrega or Ponce.But literature continues to be his primary focus.Currently, he is working on a collection of miniatures under the title of The Penny Epics, which can be enjoyed on his website at JayRayl.comTitles include:The Girl With The Flaxen Hair- A novelKilroy Was Here!- A novelThe Evening Meal- A short storyThe Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens- A short storyA Love Affair So Late In Life- A short storyMarevedova And The Size-Nine Enigma- A short storyUnwriting The Chisel'd Script- A short storyThe Minerva Vendettas- A short story
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A Love Affair So Late In Life - Jay Rayl
But it did not.
And she did not die.
‘And with her frail heart beating furiously, she tried ever so to flee, but she found that the very bed sheets wound tightly around her were not unlike so many strong arms drawing her towards the inescapability of what she supposed would be a lover's embrace. And the harder she tried to free herself, the tighter the sheets seemed to twist and entrap her light frame.’
The man, seeing her frightened so from such a confinement, tried to ease her anxiety with the warmest of smiles . . .
A Love Affair
So Late In Life
A Short Story
JayAllenRayl
©2014
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A Love Affair
So Late In Life
The problem of growing old is the prospect of losing things.
Jillian Anne Gilchrest was an old woman.
And she was losing things.
She had been told this.
In fact, she had been told this several times as of late.
Beyond misplacing her keys, wondering why she had walked into a certain room or forgetting what day her Bridge club met, she also had been told this when her pair of reading glasses failed to even remotely render the small print on her various bottles of prescribed medications.
She had been told this when she accidentally broke her left foot on the last step of the main staircase in her large two-story house.
And she had been told this when she found it difficult to tolerate even the joyful noise of her playful grandchildren at a holiday family gathering.
Again and again she had been told many times over.
She was a woman who had grown old.
And she was losing things.
And finally, just last year, she had been told this when her husband of over forty years died suddenly and she was left very much alone in that old red-brick house they had always lived in since the first days that they were wed. And gradually, the couples they had been close friends with for so many years, the people they had in many ways come to see as family, now found her awkwardly out of place as cast in the new role of a grieving widow.
And so she saw less and less of them, and less of just about everyone else.
Indeed, for Jillian Anne Gilchrest it now