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Two Days: A Collection of Stories
Three powerful stories that will touch and inspire you.
For decades, Anastasia has served in the background, hardly noticed or appreciated. Now, at the end of her life, she longs to know that her loving service has made a difference. Not Forgotten echoes the cry of every lonely heart.
Wade really wasn’t looking for answers to life’s deepest questions, but that was before the funeral, the fire, and encounters with old acquaintances nearly forgotten. Scars is a story of bitterness, sacrifice, and the true meaning of love.
Kezia’s life was comfortably normal-family, friends, and job. Then a doctor’s stunning verdict renders every detail of her life at once utterly insignificant and deeply meaningful. Two Days is an achingly poignant story about life, death, and light.
For decades, Anastasia has served in the background, hardly noticed or appreciated. Now, at the end of her life, she longs to know that her loving service has made a difference. Not Forgotten echoes the cry of every lonely heart.
Wade really wasn’t looking for answers to life’s deepest questions, but that was before the funeral, the fire, and encounters with old acquaintances nearly forgotten. Scars is a story of bitterness, sacrifice, and the true meaning of love.
Kezia’s life was comfortably normal-family, friends, and job. Then a doctor’s stunning verdict renders every detail of her life at once utterly insignificant and deeply meaningful. Two Days is an achingly poignant story about life, death, and light.
314 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2023
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November 5, 2024
This is a book by Emily Steiner. I loved the first two short stories, Not Forgotten and Scars (both get 5 stars from me), but the last one, Two Days, was heartbreaking for me!! I did not enjoy it, as I hate sad, sad stories, I gave it 2 or 2.5 stars.
•Not Forgotten•
You're following Anastasia who is an old woman without any family. She has liver cancer and is nearing the end of her life and she wants to know that her years of loving service to others has not been forgotten.
•Scars•
Wade is a youngish man, and an atheist. He came back home to go to his Christian mother's funeral, and he does not want to have a run in with his alcoholic father. He sees smoke and runs to see whats happening, and here one of his childhood friend's houses is on fire, and that friend's nephew is stuck upstairs! He climbs up and rescues him and gets severe burns on his hands on the way back down to the ground, requiring skin graphing. After that you follow his journey, ultimately leading him to question his decision to leave Jesus.
•Two Days•
This short story is about Kezia, a young woman who goes to the doctor to figure something out about a tickle in her throat, and finds out that she has an extremely rare type of cancer and that she doesn't have very long at all to live. So she is faced with many questions and has to "set [her] house in order" (Isaiah 38:1)
•Not Forgotten•
You're following Anastasia who is an old woman without any family. She has liver cancer and is nearing the end of her life and she wants to know that her years of loving service to others has not been forgotten.
•Scars•
Wade is a youngish man, and an atheist. He came back home to go to his Christian mother's funeral, and he does not want to have a run in with his alcoholic father. He sees smoke and runs to see whats happening, and here one of his childhood friend's houses is on fire, and that friend's nephew is stuck upstairs! He climbs up and rescues him and gets severe burns on his hands on the way back down to the ground, requiring skin graphing. After that you follow his journey, ultimately leading him to question his decision to leave Jesus.
•Two Days•
This short story is about Kezia, a young woman who goes to the doctor to figure something out about a tickle in her throat, and finds out that she has an extremely rare type of cancer and that she doesn't have very long at all to live. So she is faced with many questions and has to "set [her] house in order" (Isaiah 38:1)
November 6, 2024
These stories made me think deeply about my own way of relating to others and living as a Christian, and I had to ask myself whether I am really allowing the Spirit to guide me.
But there is also so much more in these stories--grief, light, love. And such real characters.
But there is also so much more in these stories--grief, light, love. And such real characters.
November 19, 2025
All of Emily steiners books suck.
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