Family Is Where the Love Is (Long Short Story)
Brooks dropped the multitude of bags in his hands to the floor, took a deep breath in relief and looked around his home. To the left was the living room, the only room on the ground floor that was pristine or in his head, cold. It was a formal room in shades of white and royal blue with touches of gold that the interior decorator had talked his wife Carolyn into. After he had seen what he had done to the living room Brooks had fired the interior decorator. Carolyn wanted to keep the “drawing room” as it was designed for when they had “company”. In the 5 years since it had been designed it had been used 3 times, each of those were for business purposes. To the right was the “great room” this is where his family and friends gathered. One wall was covered with a 94” flat screen TV, all of the furniture was big, soft and comfortable in colors that hid spills and stains. This was the room he and his friends came to watch whatever was the big game of the day. Memories of Sund