The Book of Secrets – Friday Fictioneers, December 2016

Copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

 

We mocked her filigree curtains.

“They’re sooo passé, Aunt Josephine.”

She smiled; said they afforded privacy, and we’d understand when we were older.

We laughed, wondering what a woman of 82 would do that required privacy.

After she died, we sorted through her possessions and found a hand-written, leather bound journal, together with her accounts books.

And we understood, reading it, that the lace curtains were not to prevent people looking in; they were to prevent them noticing her looking out.

She left us the house.

And a livelihood.

If you don’t immediately understand this, remember that in short fiction the title often forms part of the story.  🙂  Congratulations to Rochelle, the illustrious leader of Friday Fictioneers, whose third book in her trilogy has been released this week.  Looking forward to reading it.