The Prompt
We inherit many things throughout the course of a single life. They may be personal characteristics, such as talents, demeanour, eye colour, height, the shape of a mouth or nose. They can also be practical, like jobs, property or money; or it might be a single object such as the Victorian Witch’s Ball I inherited from a great-uncle in the 1980s.
Everything we inherit comes with its own cost, such as the regular reminders I get from well-meaning family friends and relatives who tell me ‘you are the image of your mother’, or admonish me to ‘look after it carefully, remember it’s been in the family for decades’.
This week, the prompt is to take a brief peek into a character’s inheritance and the cost that comes along with it.
Here’s my effort ..
All my life, I’d dreamed of a covered porch with a swing seat and a white picket fence around the property. Looking at the rundown, decrepit old house, I saw images of what it would become once I’d worked a little light magic on it.
It never occurred to me when Uncle Bill died that I’d inherit his house; it came as quite a shock to my cousins, too. I think they thought I’d done something I shouldn’t have, and to be honest, they were closer to the truth than they knew, but had missed the point.
That nasty little secret remains a secret still.
The Hysteria Writing Competition closes on Monday, 30th June. To enter, head over to the website www.hysteriawc.co.uk.
With love, light, and laughter
Linda
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