The Secret Book - Micro-fiction
This week, the Fifty Worders have been writing stories inspired by the prompt of "book." It's interesting to see the different ways people interpret prompts and share such different approaches in their micro-fiction stories.
For me, the prompt inspired an exploration of the idea of a hidden history, stowed away inside a book that was not intended to be found — not while the subject of the book was young, certainly, or perhaps ever.
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The Secret Notebook
Perhaps Frieda had always known.
She stood in the attic, holding a notebook with her name printed in small type on its dusty cover.
With her mother and sister gone — recently buried after a crash took their lives — she opened the notebook, prepared for truth.
She was her sister’s daughter.
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Woah, what an ending. Didn't see that one coming! She will have so many questions now and no one to answer them! Her whole life will feel like a lie. The thing is that in the old days this would be very plausible and I'm sure it happened on occasion...
Lies are never the answer. They always unravel in the end and leave people hurt.
Really well crafted piece @jayna
Thank you, @ablaze! I totally agree. Lies create a world of hurt, even when the are told in an effort to fix a bad situation.
Ah, I think the argument fits the form perfectly. The moment you realize what deep down you've always known is an epiphany: your life in a tight second, like a quantum phenomenon; you feel minuscule. A moment of realization in fifty words; I think anybody would feel identified with this bewildered heroine.
Thanks, @jayna☻♥
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, @marlyncabrera! It tickles me pink when people read my stories and are moved in some way by them.
Glad I've given you a little piece of that ♥
I was quite unprepared for this outcome. Thank you!
Thanks @frizzy!
Congratulations, sometimes the truth transpires very late when the moment is past.
Thank you, @felixgarciap.
Surprising ending. Double tragedy, I guess. Very true, though. Secrets like this one keep being kept to devastating effects.
Yes, I've heard of this happening. In fact I just talked with someone recently that had this story. His mother and sister had both passed on, and he believed that his "sister" had actually been his mother and his "mother" had actually been his grandmother. But he was fine with not knowing for sure.
Some family secrets are better left unknown/ignored, I guess.
Your story writes like the beginning of a wonderful movie.
Thank you, @pyemoney. That is quite the compliment!
Thanks, @theironfelix! I'm not sure it was incest. The idea I had in mind was that her sister (actually her mother) had a baby way too young. So the family made up the lie that she was her mother's sister. And the family member she thought of as her mother was actually her grandmother.
Ah, and it all makes sense now. Blimey.
😁