99 word prompt : screaming heart
July 16, 2020, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that expresses the phrase, “scream inside your heart.” Who is involved and why is the scream contained? Go where the prompt leads!
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“You killed him,” my mother-in-law said. “I told him not to eat what you cooked.”
Thankfully, my children were visiting friends while I looked out a window at the Wisconsin snow flurries. “His doctor advised him to quit smoking, warned him of diabetic retinopathy and kidney failure…”
“He’ll be buried in New York with a six foot tombstone!”
I screamed inside my heart for his loss, and now understood why he never wanted me to meet his mother. I left the kitchen table to make the arrangements my husband wanted; a simple tombstone in the cemetery he had chosen.
That’s a painful moment, captured awesome Joelle… Well done ✨✍️ I’m still writing 😂 Have a peaceful night 🤗
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Thanks. 🙂
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It’s painful when we dig up old memories, and yet it’s empowering to give them voice. I like how you showed silent action in response to a toxic parent.
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Thanks. 🙂
She had experienced a great deal of tragedy in her life — all but 2 of her family members (we’re talking 100’s of extended family) died in Nazi concentration camps. She was very “old world,” where it was the sons who were important. When my children were little, she’d give my son something and ignore my daughter. When she gave my daughter candy, my daughter was told to share it with her brother. I told her that she was either going to give both the same thing or give them nothing. She gave them tennis rackets — my daughters was less expensive.
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Pain on pain. What a PITA.
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Mothers-in-law… am I right?
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From way back “when.” 🙂
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I’m not sure how much things have changed from back “then.”
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