A Short Story Prompt Link Party 9
My good friend, Grammy Dee, from our Blogging Grandmother’s group, hosts a blogger’s link party based on story prompts.
This story is a writing exercise and is linked up to Grammy’s Grid – Short Story Prompt Link Party 9. This is how it works…
- write a short story using the short story prompt she provides
- publish your post
- then add it to the link party here.
Here is her Short Story Prompt… As she looked out the window, she wondered if…
And here is my story.
A Different Window
As she looked out the window, she wondered if this was really happening after all these years.
Her heart was pounding in her chest as she saw the cloud of dust boiling on the long dirt road.
So many years had passed since that morning when she waved goodbye to the only family she had ever known.
Tragedy
Tina’s parents were killed in an accident when she was only 3 and her sister was 2. Their grandmother took them to live with her on the farm.
The sisters were loved there, and they had the run of the place or at least she thought she did. She had very few memories of her time on the farm, but she remembered the gardens.
Tina remembered her grandmother’s beautiful flowers, and the fresh-cut bouquets she kept in a vase on the table.
A Second Tragedy
But tragedy struck the young girls lives again when their grandmother suffered a stroke and passed away suddenly. Their grandfather, who was also in poor health, died just a few months later, once again leaving the sisters orphaned.
The state took custody of the girls and they were sent to an orphanage in a nearby city. After a short time, the girls were adopted separately. Each going to perfectly lovely families, never to be heard of again.
At just 5 years old, Tina screamed when they tore her baby sister from her arms and she watched through the window as the car drove away leaving a trail of dust.
No Clues
Forty-seven years had passed since she had seen her baby sister. She had longed for her sister but her adopted parents had no knowledge of her sister’s whereabouts. Tina had no clues to even guide her in her search.
The adoptions were made straight from the state orphanage that had long since closed, and there were no known records of their adoptions.
The girls were too young to have known the grandparent’s names and as far as Tina knew, there had been no other family. She didn’t even know her own last name because it had been changed at her adoption.
A Different Window
But last week the email came with the new DNA match results. A full sibling, a sister. Her sister.
Today she stood in a different window, wondering and watching, as her baby sister drove up the driveway.
Did she look like her? Would her sister be as happy to be reunited as Tina was? Could they ever catch up the 47 years they had lost?
As the car got closer the dust cloud settled. A lovely lady stepped out of the car and walked up toward the house. Her sister looked so much like herself that she gasped when she saw her.
Tina smiled, it really was her baby sister.
This story is linked to the SHORT STORY PROMPT LINK PARTY 9
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