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Roy Panen

Sten’s whole life falls apart when disaster strikes.

Today, his mother doesn’t pick him up from the recreation school, as planned.

The recreation teacher takes him home, and they find his grandmother dead on the hall floor, with a completely crazy mother next to her.

His mother is uncontactable, and only makes strange noises.

She was shocked to see her mother dead. And when she fell to the floor, she hit her head on the vacuum cleaner.

Sten and the recreation teacher accompany his mother to the hospital.

After that, they go home to Sten’s best friend Amir.

Sten gets to live with Amir, until he has to move to a foster home.

But he doesn’t want to live in a foster home. He wants to live with Amir and his family.

Amir’s father persuades Sten to give the family home an honest chance. And things could be good over there.

 

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SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY (new version) 

SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY The Life Collapses (new version)

How do you move on when life has collapsed like a house of cards? And Sten has to go to his new foster family.

But what if they aren’t kind, over there?

And how will he cope with this?

Survive?

Grandma has died, mom has gone even crazier, and now he has to live with foster parents.

His best friend Amir and his dad accompany Sten to the foster family in Örebro.

But when they are to go home again, life falls apart for Sten again. And he feels that he won’t be able to handle this, with a family home.

But he can escape.

Although the foster parents are very kind and nice, and they have a big farm with lots of animals.

At the foster home, Sten meets Rickard, twelve years old, who is very understanding, kind, and nice, but also tough.

He is also super good at comforting. And the two become like besties.

(For more pictures, information, and sample reading see www.panen.se)

SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY Foster Family (new version)

The catastrophe of his grandmother dying, his mother becoming more crazy, him having to move to a foster home, and him losing contact with his best friend, Amir, creates a grinding and terrible anxiety for Sten.

He thinks about Amir a lot, calls him, but only gets sad when he hears his happy voice.

And when he thinks about escape, he gets a lot of help and comfort from Rickard at the family home.

Rickard is twelve years old, two years older than Sten, and helps him think about things other than things that worry and cause psychological pain.

They play TV games, and other games.

And Rickard shows him the ponies, Dandy and Pompe. They also bring a lot of joy and comfort. And Rickard teaches him to ride.

Rickard and Sten become like best friends.

They get to go to school with homeschooling.

And everyone at the family home, adults and children, plays football.

SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY Troubled Times (new version)

When Rickard has moved on to his new permanent foster parents, Sten feels betrayed – and again. First his grandmother, then his mother, his best friend Amir, and now also his new friend Rickard.

And the loss of Amir hurts too much and is unbearable.

Now it feels like he only has his ponies, Dandy and Pompe, to seek comfort in. And he wants to dare to believe that they will not betray him.

He takes care of them, and reads aloud to them from his textbook about pirates.

And soon, at Grandma’s funeral. How will he be able to face everyone he feels has betrayed him? And how will he be able to say goodbye to Grandma?

No, this is not possible. He can’t. Can’t handle this.

Three nights before the funeral he doesn’t sleep at all. And during the sleepless nights, he borrows Rickard’s TV games and plays them all night long.

This becomes his salvation.

 

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SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY Sorrows (new version)

Before the funeral, Sten feels very mentally ill. And he hasn’t slept at all for three nights.

How will he be able to say goodbye to his dead grandmother? And will he dare to go to her coffin?

He also needs to be able to face his now completely crazy and absent mother.

And his best friend Amir? How will he face him? What will he, they, talk about? Should they talk about how hard, difficult, and sad life has become? Or ... should they just play the silent game?

But somehow, he has to cope with it all. But it’s just how?

And the funeral will end at some point. Or ...?

But Sten is also strong mentally and he will be able to get through the whole funeral. It may not be easy - but it will be okay. And he gets a lot of support and comfort from his foster father Ove.

 

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SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY Funeral (new version)

When Sten has just gotten through and survived his grandmother’s funeral, the next problem appears. He no longer feels seen, and it’s as if he has been abandoned.

He doesn’t understand that everyone on the farm is busy with their own interests and has their own lives to live.

But if he seeks contact with them, no one ever rejects him.

No, everyone is still very kind.

And just a couple of days after the funeral, a big surprise comes. His now best friend Rickard doesn’t like his new permanent foster home and wants to come back to them in the emergency foster home in Örebro.

Sten is overjoyed and now life feels okay again.

And how he misses Rickard.

Yes, almost as much as he misses his friend Amir.

And Rickard has missed Sten. And the ponies.

Now everything feels almost like before again.

 

(For more pictures, information, and sample reading see www.panen.se)

SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY Abandoned (new version)

Once again, Sten is depressed and sad when his friend Rickard is leaving him to travel to his new permanent family home.

Although Rickard is happy to go to a new family home. And the last one was such a failure.

But this family, which he is going to travel to now, will definitely be a musical family. There he will learn to play different instruments, as he wishes.

Sten tries to get used to and cope with the fact that Rickard is no longer with him. And he comforts himself with the ponies.

However, Rickard is very disappointed in his new family home and escapes.

And Sten is very surprised and happy when Rickard comes back. He gets a lift from a police car driving with the sirens on to the farm.

There will be a big welcome party for Rickard.

He and Sten are super happy to be together again.

 

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SHORT STORIES A FOSTER FAMILY Surprise (new version)

Rickard and Sten have a lot to talk about with each other and it feels good to be together again.

However, soon they will be forced to leave each other again, to go to a permanent family home.

On an evening ride, Rickard tells about all the terrible things that happened with his last foster parents, which made him escape. And he wanted to go back here to Sten.

Inside Rickard’s room, they play TV games. Everything feels good and normal again. And Sten looks up to Rickard, who has become like a best big brother.

Rickard helps Sten plan and make good escape plans. And Sten thinks that Rickard is good at this escaping thing.

Because when the day comes, when it’s time to go with the new permanent foster parents, to Stockholm – well, no, it can’t be done. He refuses. And then he plans to escape.

 

(For more pictures, information, and sample reading see www.panen.se)

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