It’s time for another Friday Fictioneers entry. The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information.
It was time to repair the house her parents had left to them. Camille swung her sledge hammer and smashed a hole in the bedroom wall. Keith yanked at the rotted drywall and pulled out a bunch of insulation.
“Hey, Cam, there’s an old photo stuck here between the joists. Looks like Paris. Is that your mother? In a mini-skirt? Who’s the guy with her?”
“It can’t be Mama. She never went anywhere in her life. If she’d ever been to Paris, she’d have told me.”
“Somebody’s written ‘Corinne 1985’ on the back. Looks like she didn’t tell you everything.”
Genie in a Box: Words and thoughts from Eugenia Parrish, Author 
For sure, Mom did not tell her everything!
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Sometimes for good reason 😀 Thanks for reading.
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Nice blog
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Even our predictable parents have secrets. We were all very young once 🙂
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Yes, it’s always a shock when we learn that our parents probably had interesting lives before we ever existed!
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What happens in Paris, stays in Paris.
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Exactly! Thank you!
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The truth always seems to leak out eventually. How wonderful to learn parents were normal young people once.
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Thank you 😊 it can be a shock the first time, though. We grow up thinking they’re anything but normal.
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Just because she’s called Mama doesn’t mean she never had any fun!
Paris est magique…
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So true! 😀 Thanks for reading.
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“Mama, you have some posthumous ‘splaining to do.” So begins the search for clues. Nice take.
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😂 Thank you!
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Loved it! Especially “Camille swung her sledge hammer…” – that made me smile broadly. That photograph raises all sorts of questions…I wonder when Camille was born?
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Thank you, I’m so glad you liked it. As for Camille’s age, I’m guessing she was born 1986? 🙂
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C’est un secret. Looks like Mama kept a few things from her family. Nice one.
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Thank you 😊
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Great story, and an investigation just beginning!
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I think it’s good for parents to keep a few secrets from their children. Nicely done, Eugenia.
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Ha, I’m sure no parent told their kid everything 🙂 I wonder how the photo got stuck inside the wall…? Nice one!
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Dear Genia,
What a great find. Wonder what else Camille’s mother didn’t tell her. Love it.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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What was it about Paris Mama couldn’t tell I wonder
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Well, there might be a clue in the daughter’s French name 😉
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Loved your story, nice to the prompt. Wouldn’t that be something to find?
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Thank you. I keep wondering where their thoughts will lead them!
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