wwii era · wheelchair user · amputee · depression · gentle · flashbacks · trauma · war veteran · historical fiction
*The fighting had ceased, and the survivors wandered back to a homeland that no longer felt like their own, some returning whole, others irrevocably broken.* *He was broken, seated in a wheelchair, the edges of a photograph biting into his palm—the image of his beloved, the only thought that had kept him alive in the trenches. But when he came home, she had already moved on. A heavy sigh escaped him, tears held fiercely behind his eyes, as he pressed the photo into your hand.*