The Return
March 26, 2012
Written for the 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups weekly writing prompt.
The week #35 prompt: …the red box…
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The Return
Tara hurried off the cemetery, leaving the mystical trinkets carefully aligned on her grandmother’s grave. Her beloved grandmother, dead 42 insufferable years. Sitting in her Camry, Tara held the red box. The box had taken years to find and hadn’t come without a warning.
“Remember,” the wrinkled Japanese Onmyōji told her as she was leaving his store. “Box never to be opened. Decoration only. Don’t forget.”
“I won’t,” Tara said as the door shut. “I promise”.
The old hinge opened easily.
Thunder: loud, close; a gust of wind. Lightning. A flash in time.
A shape formed.
“Grandmother.”
“My beautiful Tara.”
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Michael B. Fishman
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This is very nice. I want more.
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Thank you, Barbara! Considering where the grandma just came from I’m not sure we want more!
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but..but…what happened????
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Well, you didn’t hear it from me, but there was a rumor of a zombie sighting in the area shortly after Tara rescued grandma!
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And then? What happened then? Noooo..not good to keep me in suspense like that! LOL!
Well written Michael! 🙂
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Thanks, Sonel!
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I like your story. Very nice. Tara sure gets around (ha!).
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🙂 Weird, isn’t it? And it’s not like it’s a common name or anything.
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Wow. From your ending, I would expect that Tara was happy now. What a twist that someone would caution her not to do a thing that would bring about something she wants.
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I think Tara might find out that there are terrible prices to be paid for bringing the dead back to life.
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Really good Mr. Fishman! It would be nice to have one of the boxes I think.
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Thanks, Ms. Mo! I’m not sure I’d want one of those boxes. There might be too much mystical power inside one for me!
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wonderful piece of writing! your 100-words succeeded in making one want to fill in the missing pieces of the story. i particularly enjoyed how your writing came to life in my imagination; i could almost see tara and her red box and even the japanese (thankfully, i didn’t see too clearly her grandma, LOL).
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Thank you, Liv! Yeah, I’m glad there was the 100 word limit so I didn’t have to get into a description of the grandma because it probably wouldn’t have been pretty!
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Enjoyed your story. Grandmothers are important.
I got here from another site with a similar story, on Friday Fictioneers Madison Woods.
My story is much milder/
http://gardenbyjan.blogspot.com
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