Welcome to this year’s A-Z Blogging Challenge. My theme for this year is character prompts. Each day throughout April, you’ll find a new character prompt that relates to that day’s letter.
Day Twenty-Five: Y – Your Old Letters
Your character is sorting through a box of old letters and they stumble across one that they re-read.
Who is the letter from and what’s it about?
How did it make your character feel when they received it? How do they feel now? If their feelings have changed, why?
Do they keep the letter or throw it away now? Why?
I’d love to read some of the scenarios you create. Email them to me at debbie@myrandommusings.co.uk and I’ll share some of my favourites over the coming months here on the blog.
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Hari OM
There it was, tucked in behind the dried clovers and the lace trim. She’d forgotten she had this scrapbook, never mind that letter. From dad. The father trying to explain his leaving. She’d read it that once, but did not recall having kept it. She thought she had chucked it. Was sure she had.
Mother. The image of mother clearing the waste bin and placing the letter in the scrapbook. Tucked for safety and later discovery. Real – or did she just make that up? No matter. The letter was there in front of her again. It was inevitable that she would read it. Again.
The words were the same. The pain was the same – yet different. Now it was coloured by the memory of mother never once saying anything against him. Now she had an adult’s eyes and a heart’s worth of experience. The reasoning he gave made sense. More than if he’d stayed. Now she cried again for the girl who hadn’t understood and who had spent her life till now in hatred an distrust. Now she cried… and the darkness pulled back like a curtain from her mind.
Tucking the letter back behind the clovers and the lace, she added a note of her own.
Forget that moment. Never forget this moment. Move on.
YAM xx
Perfect – I love how rereading the letter gave her inner peace after all those years
These are wonderful prompts! Enjoyed reading the writing that Yamini wrote as well. So happy I came by tonight your post and the story.
Ann
Thank you 🙂 I’ve been loving Yamini’s take on the prompts too!
Such a great way to share information with the reader without narrative. Nice!
This is an interesting premise to share so much detail in a story – I shall try this one out in one of my fiction writing soonest!