Monday, 7 March 2011

Microfiction Monday #44


Susan at Stony River hosts this fun theme each Monday, so do pop over and read the others who have signed Mr. Linky. The rules are thus:


Every Monday Susan will post a picture for the subject of your story. Microfiction means the shortest of short stories. Think Aesop's fables, comic strips, or even jokes: complete stories that can be told in under a minute. For this game, the limit is a tweetable 140 characters or fewer, including spaces and punctuation.


Here's today's picture and my contribution




The note, discovered behind her grandfather’s photograph,


told a very different version of his life to the heroic one Ann believed about him.


140 characters including spaces and punctuation
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21 comments:

  1. MorningAJ7 March 2011 at 08:27

    I recently started looking into my own past and that strikes a rather sharp chord!

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  2. Commander Zaius7 March 2011 at 08:51

    Mysterious and cool! Very good!

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  3. Valerie7 March 2011 at 11:12

    I'm now wondering what sort of things the man got up to in his younger days.

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  4. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 12:23

    I love this! It could be the start of a fabulous paranormal novel.

    btw, thanks for your comment on my blog. I didn't get the post for MM - or at least I don't remember getting it! crystal.jigsaw7@btinternet.com

    CJ xx

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  5. Dumdad7 March 2011 at 12:58

    Intriguing!

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  6. Akelamalu7 March 2011 at 15:10

    It's amazing what comes out of the closet when delving into the past isn't it AJ.

    Thanks Beach Bum :)

    Let your imagination run riot Valerie ;)

    I suppose it could Crystal Jigsaw. I'll resend the email to the correct address.

    You can decide what the note said Dumdad ;)

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  7. Grandpa7 March 2011 at 15:32

    Hmmm...a dark secret, eh. Must check out all my photo frames now, just in case...

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  8. nitebyrd7 March 2011 at 15:48

    I can imagine that so many family historys have unsavory skeletons lurking behind gilt doors!

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  9. Casdok7 March 2011 at 16:09

    Makes you think.

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  10. Pat7 March 2011 at 16:21

    Excellent! A mystery begun or ended or in the middle. Now I want the rest of the story.

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  11. Empress Bee (of the high sea)7 March 2011 at 16:49

    oh i want to know what the note said! ha ha

    smiles, bee
    xoxoxoxooxox

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  12. Ron7 March 2011 at 17:04

    Oooooooooo....this gave me such a yearning to know MORE!

    Grrrrrrreat suspense!

    As usual, an awesome Microfiction Monday!

    Have a great day, m'dear!

    X

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  13. Daryl7 March 2011 at 17:45

    Clever ... now of course I want to know what the truth was .. ;-)

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  14. Shrinky7 March 2011 at 17:59

    You clever little tease, you!

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  15. Akelamalu7 March 2011 at 19:16

    Well you never know what you may find Grandpa ;)

    I'm sure you're right Nitebyrd

    Indeed it does Casdok

    You can decide what the story is Pat :)

    It can say anything you like Bee. Glad to see you back. x

    We like a bit of suspense don't we Ron? LOL

    Let your imagination run wild Daryl !

    Thanks Shrinky x

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  16. Gledwood7 March 2011 at 23:42

    Oh come on tell us more!

    I'm just dropping by to say hi. Do my posts not make sense or something? I can't tell what I do that's so crazy, I know occasionally I do post what it's like to be mad, I thought if I didn't I'd come out of it and have no holiday snaps, as it were.

    I think people were getting bored of that and also I'm feeling more "normal". I know it must be disappointing that I canned the drugs to a very large extent (even though I DID use today, it just doesn't hit the spot so I'm giving up on it)... I know people had lots of hopes for me and now THIS. That's life I suppose. I don't feel really terrible you know I just feel really odd and I don't remember what "normal" feels like thanks to those years of brain-pickling I've done. The shrink knows what I've done, what I do now etc etc and he based the diagnosis on fact. There was no exaggeration, no covering up, and no lies on my part and having checked the meaning of schizoaffective I can see that yes I am it. I just find it really weird being "ill" yet not lying in bed feeling sorry for myself the way you're meant to when ill. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Really I don't want to do anything, I just want to stay in all the time and not talk to anyone, that's what I really want and Im pissed off at just having to go to the chemist. I started being unsociable about 4 or more years ago, never realized it was part of an "illness" but I think I know what my "illness" is now and it is in a large part me. Which is a real headfucker. Sorry to comment like this hear I don't have your email and it's not highly confidential I've already put so much online I don't mind sharing it in public.

    I hope YOU are OK these days... yes?

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  17. secret agent woman8 March 2011 at 01:13

    The real story rarely lines up with the public one, does it?

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  18. Travis Cody8 March 2011 at 01:57

    From the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

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  19. Dianne8 March 2011 at 02:45

    my grandmother was very wary of opening the back of photo frames, she had once discovered a second photo of a relative she knew nothing about and as she put it - "I don't need any more excitement in my life"

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  20. G-Man8 March 2011 at 12:47

    Great take Ake....

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  21. Akelamalu9 March 2011 at 09:42

    I'm reading your posts Gleds, I just don't know what to say apart from I'm thinking of you. x

    No, there's usually something hidden somewhere SAW ;)

    True Trav

    Sometimes ignorance is bliss Dianne

    Cheers G-man x

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