FF Challenge, April 21st – Grandma’s Secret

So here is my story for this weeks FF Challenge. A newbie to this challenge? The rules are simple – write a story 100 words or less based on the photo prompt. This challenge is hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, please click her name to visit her site for more info.

Thank you Magaly Guerrero for this week’s intriguing photo.

PHOTO PROMPT © Magaly Guerrero

Now, here is my 102 word story – Grandma’s Secret

With a mischievous smile and twinkling eyes, grandma whispered stories about 1924 Paris like they were a shared secret. Nights at the scandalous Moulin Rouge and dreams of becoming a dancer. She always kept the best for the last, where a brazen twenty-year-old from New York met a shy thirty-year-old artist from Oklahoma and how their love bloomed in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

Grandma never talked about life and death on the farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl and she never shared the secret of how she kept her mischievous smile and twinkling eyes despite so many shattered dreams.

Thanks for reading.

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