“How dare you destroy my precious piano?” Grandma? I wanted to say but my lips had turned to jello. “Yes, it’s me,” Grandma snapped as if she had read my mind while a swarm of thoughts invaded my suddenly awake mind. What piano? What is she talking about?
Grandma scoffed, “You don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, do you? Fine, sleep. When you wake up, that piano will begin to haunt you until you find it, fix it, and care for it.”
“Wait, Grandma!” I cried but all I heard was the ear-piercing ringing of my alarm clock.
(100 words)
Each week, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple hosts Friday Fictioneers where we’re challenged to write a piece of flash fiction in 100 words, more or less, based on the picture above.
This is Another Story 
Somethings that cannot be changed, continue to haunt us forever. NIce take on the prompt.
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Wow… This one made a knot in my stomach. When I was ten-years old, I destroyed my mother’s old family butterfly grand that she had learned to play on. Protesting piano lessons, I used a pair of my dad’s medical scissors to cut a bunch of strings until there was a sudden, loud “BANG!” One of the cast iron harps had cracked from the sudden change in tension. My mom and I both cried for a week. One of very few things in my life I’d go back and change if I could.
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Ouch, it’s strange how I can feel the pain of the piano. I would’ve cried for a month. That sounded like a beautiful piano.
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It was beautiful. But I think what really hurt was that my mom had beautiful memories form her own childhood associated with the instrument. Destroying it was like defacing her memories. I got my wish, anyway. For many years, I wasn’t even allowed in the same room with its replacement.
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That dream is beautifully described. Lips turn to jello is a great hint. I guess she starts investigating about the piano now.
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Thank you. Yeah, I guess an investigation will be underway now.
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What a scary dream, but I’m thinking it will compel the dreamer to find that piano. Nicely done.
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Thank you and I think the dream will be a good motivation to jump-start the search for the piano.
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Ah- the beginning of something good, I sense. Great story.
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Thank you.
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