After the Love Is Gone

[<] [>]  by Deneen Ansley

28 January 2010

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Drabble Challenge #52

Prompt: cracked

Numb, she gathers ingredients for an evening meal. Her grown children have stayed after the funeral, and cooking is the only thing that she can do “half-way right,” as her late father was fond of pointing out.

Not smart enough for college or capable enough for a career, he had also said, “Best to face reality, Sweetheart. I love you, but - I’m biased.”

Distractedly grabbing the old pepper mill, tearfully grinding the beloved spice with which her father insisted that she season his food - she suddenly stops, cracked peppercorns staring up at her.

She doesn’t even like pepper!

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