Loaner: Live Their Life

What would the world do without loaners? People would have to endure suffering, experience the bitterness of absolute loss and come to terms with the fragility of their human connections, the limited ties to loved ones existing in a finite space and time. With loaners, relationships could truly, in some ways, last entire lifetimes.Rue Walser loves her husband, her home and her idyllic life in the sleepy borough of Upland, just outside of the bustling metropolis of New Mifflin City. She even began to almost love the loaner her husband recently brought home to help with the planning of their 10th wedding anniversary party, a milestone occasion Rue had hoped to plan with her mother, Emmetine. Sadly, Emmetine died just months earlier, at the age of 114, following a lengthy illness.The loaner Rue’s husband, Marlox brought from work resembled Emmetine in so many ways. Her face. Her voice. Her sense of humor. Her kindness. Even her recipes! The loaner was a comfort in Rue’s grieving process, as loaners were for so many families for generations upon generations. Loaners were welcome additions to families during holidays, nostalgic companions to the elderly, and visions of hope to those waiting for family members to recover from serious medical illnesses.Loaners are companions, loaners are helpers … loaners are distractions from life’s pains, animated etchings of those one loves most. Loaners are family, friends, lovers, givers, mentors, heroes, and hopes. Loaners make life … better.One day, while jogging, Rue encounters a loaner she was not expecting to see. Seeking Rue out, on a desolate stretch of road near Rue’s home, this loaner – unaccompanied by its origin family – would change Rue’s life, warning her of a dangerous side of her husband, and revealing to her that the loaner of her mother was anything but a sincere gift of love from Marlox. Her eyes opened, Rue must face truths about her marriage, her world and everything she came to know about embracing loaners as a normal part of life. Forced to question everything, Rue must come to terms that loaners are not what they seem – and everything in Rue’s world is a lie.