RANDOM WORD DRABBLE | FICTION SHORTS #190
Harmonica in Her Pocket
Memories in her heart
Today’s Daily Word: INSTRUMENT
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Cynthia yelled to Marsha “Is that Greg or his Doppelgänger?”
Twenty years later, Cynthia’s memory was still filled with Greg.
Meanwhile, Marsha was fixated on the percussionist on stage; he looked familiar but she couldn’t place him. And she couldn’t hear Cynthia over the loud music.
Cynthia retrieved her harmonica. She used the instrument to get people’s attention, a habit she’d had since college. As she pulled it from her pocket, she recalled that Greg had given her this harmonica — at Cynthia’s graduation party.
Marsha didn’t have to hear it; as soon as she saw the harmonica, she remembered everything.
LESSON:
“Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.” ― Wayne L Misner…
