The following story was an unsuccessful entry in the 2018 Edinburgh International Flash Fiction Awards.
Jack Martin, 1900-1971. The stone discloses nothing.
Sixteen when he left his Sweetheart behind, promising to marry her when he came back. He disappeared in the mud. “Missing presumed dead,” said the letter to his family.
His sweetheart refused to accept the news, believed he would come home. The Armistice was signed and the Great War ended. The men came home in their millions, but not Jack. His sweetheart kept hoping.
Taken prisoner, he had …
