w and Me © Claudia Schlottman
I am participating in Saturday Centus for the third time. It's a great meme that you can access with the icon below. This week's prompt is:
“May I help you, miss? You look puzzled.”
“Mmmm… thank you, I’m just looking for my father. We came in together a moment ago, but he seems to have wandered off.”
Here is what I did with it.
It’s 1959. I’m eleven, and Daddy and I are at the book store. No brothers, just me. Sitting on the floor facing volumes of Nancy Drew, I lose time paging through The Secrets of the Old Clock. I look up. Where is Daddy? He will find me soon.
Today I haunt the fiction section for NIN and Proust. I look up. Where is Nancy Drew? Where is Daddy?
“May I help you, miss? You look puzzled.”
“Mmmm… thank you, I’m just looking for my father. We came in together a moment ago, but he seems to have wandered off.”
I pay, wait, books in hand.
"Oh, Daddy, there you are!”
He hugs me tight and we go for ice cream, just like always.............though he has been dead since 1955.
This story if linked to Saturday Centus. Link on the left!
5 years ago
