Apr 8, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Short Story

PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Reminiscence
©April 8th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

“Do you remember, love?  Do you remember how you and I built our house?  How we lived, loved, fought, and laughed together?  Do you remember the flowers we planted, the vegetables, the trees, our pup in the garden?”

I don’t show her pictures of the place from recent times, just the ones from long ago.

Her left hand caresses the photo-album.  Looking at the pictures, then, up at me, lips trembling, she whispers, “Who are you?”

She reaches for my arm with her right hand, and her grip tightens.

A tear falls on a photograph.  Whose?

We grow quiet together.

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Thanks, as always, to our dear Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and to J Hardy Carroll for the haunting photo-prompt.

Tags: #100-wordFlashFiction, #Alzheimers, #MemoryLoss, #Nostalgia