Every week, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (thank you, Rochelle!) hosts a flash fiction challenge, to write a complete story with a beginning, middle and end in 100 words or less. Post it on your blog, and include the Photoprompt and Inlinkz (the blue frog) on your page. Link your story URL. Then the fun starts as you read other peoples’ stories and comment on them!
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz
We will remember them
Liz glanced at the clock. Fifteen minutes before her grandson, Oliver, was due to arrive.
She shuffled through the photographs until she found a small, square, monochrome print. Her brother Peter. She had snatched the shot as he entrained for the front in 1940.
Liz shook her head. Peter’s image seemed imprisoned by the margin. The severity of his mouth was belied by his apprehensive eyes.
What else did she have that she could pass on to Oliver?
A single page letter in Peter’s beautiful handwriting. A cutting from the local press, after…
A tear trickled down Liz’s cheek.
The doorbell rang.
Autumn Leaves 