Through Her Child's Eyes

in #fiftywords6 years ago (edited)

She gripped the elderly hand, the thin skin organza under the fluorescent lighting.

"Nanna, I don't want to go in."

"Why not?"

"That's not MY mum, her face's wrong."

Behind the hospital door, her mum listened, tears stinging her newly firmed cheeks. The price of beauty suddenly seemed too high.


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what a wonderful journey those 50 words just took me on!

That is heartbreaking, @letalis-laetitia. This story revealed itself to me on the third reading. I wasn't quite sure at first, and then I had an "ah ha" and I understood. Really well done.

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