Time for another Friday Fictioneers entry! The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.

PHOTO PROMPT © Marie Gail Stratford

Biographer

“I suppose you want my final thoughts?”

I nod, embarrassed.

“I wish I had died young,” she says, irritably. “To be cut down in one’s prime is a luxury afforded to few. Those are the lucky ones: those who never wilt and grow old; who never experience the decay of body and mind.”

“My mother wasn’t lucky.”

She eyes me sympathetically.

“She was, my dear. It’s you who were not. And now you’ll have to go through it all again, poor thing.”

The resulting silence is definite, save one request.

“When you write my story, tell them I was beautiful.”