PHOTO PROMPT- © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

The hospice nurse had just left. Last night was not a good night.

Marion stood at the sink rinsing tea cups. It helped to do mundane things. She thought about her mom. They had spent many hours reminiscing, looking at old photo albums and laughing. That’s how she would remember…the two of them laughing so hard that their stomachs hurt.

The sun was rising and morning fog draped the edge of the garden. Marion was startled by a flash of light in the mist that looked like a woman dancing…laughing. When she turned, Marion knew.

“Oh Mama…I love you…goodbye…”

Kat – 17 December 2015

A flash of a story for Friday Fictioneers based on the photo prompt above. Thanks to Rochelle Wiseoff-Fields for hosting this weekly challenge. If you would like to read other stories or submit your own story, click HERE.

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Charlie always saved Mrs. Delaney’s delivery for the end of the day. He had picked up the courier job when his roommate moved across country. You might say he inherited Mrs. Delaney too.

She was a regular customer. Every week her son Gordon sent a short note and cash for essentials, special delivery. Charlie learned that if he delivered the package later in the afternoon, he might get an invite to dinner or at least a cup of hot cocoa and some home-made cookies.

Mrs. Delaney was full in interesting stories about the “way things were before all this technology mumbo jumbo” as she would say.  Charlie didn’t have many friends in town. And Mrs. “D”? Well, most of her friends had passed on.

Some might consider them two of the lost invisible souls that so often go unnoticed in a big city. Though Charlie and Mrs. Delaney would never consider themselves lost…or invisible. After all, they had each other.

kat ~ 15 December 2015
(159 Words)

This story for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers (FFfAW) weekly challenge was inspired by the photo above. If you would like to read other stories or join the challenge, click HERE.  Thanks to Priceless Joy for hosting the challenge.