From the time I were just a button nose little kid, I knew ours was a family full of secrets.
And I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout secrets ever body in the holler knows but keeps tight lipped about, like mama an’ deddy bein’ first kin or when a candles burnin’ in the kitchen winda we got whisky for sale.
I’m talkin’ ‘bout Deddy’s secrets- secrets that if they got out, Deddy said he’d see to it me and mama’d ‘breathe like fishes’- and even as little snot nosed kid, I knew what he meant.
Mama went to her grave keepin’ Deddy’s secrets- unless’n that’s what put her there.
An’ that’s what I’m aimin’ to find out by keepin’ Deddy trussed up down cellar, just like he done all them women he picked up sittin’ on barstools, filled full a whisky, and painted up like harlots- the ones he called Jezebels and told me n mama he been hand picked by the lord to wipe off the face of the earth- ‘cause they was sinners of the worst kind, and it was through him they was fixin’ to escape hell.
He ain’t been down there nary a week and already hes cryin’ like a church boy, and I can tell it won’t be long now, ‘cause Deddy might could’a reckoned his bein’ picked out by the lord made him special, but truth be told- he ain’t no wheres near as special as me an’ mama- least not when entrusted with a secret….
Written for Denise’s Six Sentence Stories prompt word: Escape, utilizing the phrase prompts provided by Tnkerr’s OLWG (whisky for sale, button nosed kid and when entrusted with a secret) and Misky’s Twiglet (breathe like fishes).
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Well done I would love to know more. I got sucked right in and then it was over. I have questions lol. 🙂
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I love reading your stories! Poor “Deddy” 😦 NOT!
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I love the voice of the character you’ve created.
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Holy crap that was intense. Have you read “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?” It’s got some similar thematic feel to it.
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Really well done – I love when you play with my prompts. You can bring them to life.
Gracias
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Your characters are so alive! Excellent piece!
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Wow! Your characters and story are amazing, Violet!
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This is good, very Criminal Minds. Scary and a good take on the cue.
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OK. So you creeped me out. Big time! Especially when I went back and looked at the picture again after reading your Six. Damn! 😀
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You do these so well…and more often than not I am surprised when I think I know where you are taking us.
Great six.
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excellent on the… (err. dialect? patois.. yeah, gonna go with the patois) nicely bound story, every element fitting in and into the others, no nails or filler required!
cool
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Wow, powerful word weaving in this story!! I really liked it and wanted there to be more. Yet, you managed to tell us so much in just six sentences. Very well done!
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What a fully loaded six!
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Them’s some secrets! There’d be a world a’ trouble iffen they gots out.
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I’m way late to this party… remind me not to go down to the cellar!
I just sort of found Aooga prompts and I’m working backwards.
Here’s what I did with this one: A Flight of Fancy
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