Friday Fictioneers is a weekly blog link-up based on a photo prompt. The Challenge – write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle, and end. (No one will be ostracized for going a few words over the count.) The Key – make every word count. Up to the challenge? Join in!
The Safe Call
I was the only one still speaking to Auntie Dottie when she died. “She ain’t right,” they all defended. She was just reclusive, but if you could stand the silence spending time with her wasn’t all that bad. Anyway, she died and then her lawyer called me. I didn’t even know she had one. “What’s a slum-renting old lady need a lawyer for,” I wondered. He told me she said to take the old mirror in the bathroom and to remember the numbers 4871. Turns out she was also a money-grubbing tightwad and kept all her cash in a safe.
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Good one! I can’t wait to join the fray on this prompt.
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Thanks! Have fun with your story! 🙂
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Good karma there. Great story, great take on the photo 🙂
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Thank you Rachel. Auntie Dottie let me know a story was behind the mirror.
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I love this one, I think it’s my favourite!
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You made my night! Thank you!!
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You’re welcome. All I could think was that I wish there were a contest you could enter with it.
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Oh wouldn’t that be fun!
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Penny pinching old aunts. Gotta love them.
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Absolutely!
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NOT the story I EXPECTED. That should teach me about preconceived ideas just from the title.
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The title was meant to do that. 🙂 I’m glad it worked.
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God bless Aunt Dottie. A nifty little story!
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Indeed. Thank you!
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I hope this means she gets all the cash. Sounds like Dottie would have a will if she had a lawyer. The mirror looks like it has secrets, and you never what secrets people keep. Or, where. Wonderful story, Melanie!
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Thank you Amy! think she does get all the cash, but I don’t think she’d go any further than that.
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Dear Melanie,
Aunt Dottie wasn’t as dotty as her family thought, was she? Nice one.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks! Funny, though, is that I picked her name out of the blue. It’s just what came to me, so I went with it. I hadn’t even thought of the other spelling/definition until you mentioned it.
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Melanie, Good for Aunt Dottie. She knew who her loved ones were. Well written. 🙂 —Susan
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Yes, Aunt Dottie did good. Thank you Susan.
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I like the title and the way you used it in the story. Sounds like the niece deserved her reward for standing by Aunt Dottie till the end. Enjoyable.
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Thank you Margirene. I do agree the niece earned her spoils by sticking by her aging Aunt against family wishes. I hope she used it well.
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I’m glad the niece didn’t know about the money. Makes her spending time with her Auntie much more dear.
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Doesn’t it? It was time for the sake of time, and not for a reward.
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Ah, all that time spent paid off. Nicer that she did it for the act itself than any reward though.
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It did indeed pay off. It is good she had the right motives all along too.
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Dear Melanie, Her niece was so kind to Aunt Dottie and the niece new nothing of the inheritance.
Nan 🙂
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It was motivated by family and not ulterior motives. I’m glad. It makes the reward so much sweeter.
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