Looking for the Real Grandma

micro fiction

“So, this was the dress that grandmother was wearing in that picture”.

Excited to find it, I decided to try it on, but when I took it out, I found another picture hanging behind the dress.

In this picture, grandma was wearing the same dress, but holding the hand of another man, who certainly was not my grandfather.

Grandma didn’t have a twin!

I knew for sure.

But the date on this picture was two years later than the photo upstairs, in which, looking ravishing, she had been beaming at her handsome naval officer husband, my grandfather!

And then the note stuck in the picture frame unravelled the story a bit!

Oh my god!

Grandma had had another man in her life, after her marriage.

But how come after all that, she had remained married to my grandfather. My mother adored her father, and the pictures in the house were a proof of my grandparent’s happy married life!

She had been here, till her peaceful death, just last week!

What about her love for this man?

Suddenly, I realised, what I had in my hand.

The biggest drama I had ever written, directed, or produced!

“Looking for the real Grandma”!

This story is in response to Christine Graves’ midweek Motivation. For this 200-word micro fiction, I’m using her prompt for fiction.

“A young TV exec finds her next big hit in the archives of her family’s history”.

Mid-Week Motivation November 17, 2022 | by Christine Graves | Enticing the Muse | Nov, 2022 | Medium