The Keep Writing Challenge for today is to write a 90-word story using the prompt "listen."
A Gift for My Mother
I
concentrate on holding eye contact as my Mother talks. I’ve heard this family story
– in these very same words – at least twice today – hundreds of times in total.
“Do you
remember that?” she asks, expectantly.
I will
myself to feel her enthusiasm. “Oh yes, he was such a prankster!”
I squeeze
out a chuckle, light my face, and follow my script, “And, what was it Grace
said then?”
Fire ignites
in eyes often dull with diminished interest in life. There are so
few gifts I can still give my aging mother.
I listen.
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