It is time for Friday Fictioneers for the week.
This is the challenge where flash fiction writers create a 100 word story from a prompt supplied by Rochelle our hostess. Check it out by clicking the link above.
Here is the prompt and my story:
Lost In White
by J. Lillie
Hugh stood with his mother and his mother-in-law in the empty dining room. It was the first day they were actually related and it was the last.
“I blame you.” His mother-in-law said.
“You have got to be kidding!” Hugh’s mother spat out, “Hugh was the one your daughter left at the altar.”
Hugh looked back at the toile-draped arbor, then out through the snow covered windows into the complete white out of the setting night. He didn’t care whose fault it was. He just hoped Karen was OK. Even as that hope dawned, he knew it was false.
Ooh, the ominous last bit makes me worried also. I can visualize the two mothers going back and forth while Hugh is silently staring out the window.
Hugh thinks he has only Karen to worry about. It is much, much worse.
Will there be another chapter???
I am definitely thinking on it.
Cool.
And he still cares… sad all ’round.
He does, and his sorrow is about to deepen.
😦
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Dear Joseph,
It sounds like not showing up wasn’t Karen’s fault. Methinks there’s more to this story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle. There is more. The story has taken on a life of its own even as poor Karen’s has ended.
I’m guessing he’s put her beyond return
Well she is beyond return but it wasn’t his doing. That said suspicions will be cast.
That was very sad. I’m wondering about the jilted groom now.
He has much to walk through even still. It may be over but it is only really beginning.
I can’t think of anything much more humiliating than to be jilted on one’s wedding day. Sad, indeed. And the mother-in-law may be having to face some hard truths.
I think you are right. Karen has secrets she has even hidden from her mother and they have gotten them both in trouble.
He sounds more worried than jilted. Guess the wedding party will be turning into a search party.
Yes and what they find will be hard to bear.
I think he may have an idea of what has happened to her. Tantalizing story with mischief. Nice story!
He does. Though it is still something of a mystery he suspects foul play.