Chocolate box fiction

You never know what you're going to read about with these.

Exhale- 80 words

Time ran like sand through fingers. They watched; they could do nothing but watch. Where is he? the adviser thought, looking at the open doorway.

Women wept into the corners of the sheets, their tears a temporary stain of grief.

The steward remained still, eyes down. The pendulum swung slowly between peace and political upheaval.

Eyes look…