Friday Fictioneers time folks! The time of the week when 100+ authors share 100- words with the world. We base our stories on a photo prompt given by our A number one hostess Rochelle. Check out all the stories by following the little blue frog at THIS SITE.
Here is the prompt and my story is below that.

photo by: © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Reflection
by JE Lillie
The sun is setting again. She is at the sink doing dishes. I am at the table in my usual spot drinking coffee after dinner.
We are stuck, she and I, in this maddening loop ever since the day I sent him away. We eat dinner in silence. She does the dishes. I drink my coffee. She looks out the window. I catch the longing in her eyes turned outward. Then I see her glaring back at me in the window’s reflection. It echoes my own thoughts, suggests what we both think. I should have gone.

Why is it that the heart always longs for what has already gone?
Intriguing – I want to know who that person who was sent was.
Oh now that is truly a tragic story. More heartbreaking than can be expressed in a hundred words for sure.
I’ve read so much into this I’ve created my own little novel!
Nicely written but the suspense is killing me, who was sent away?
It was a son.
I see that son being sent away. A Cain and Abel story maybe.
Perhaps more David and Absalom.
I felt like she was looking for her son. But I don’t quite get why the father would go instead.
A lovely puzzle to reflect upon. Well done.