The Secret Notebook

Perhaps Frieda had always known.

She stood in the attic, holding a notebook with her name printed in small type on its dusty cover.

With her mother and sister gone — recently buried after a crash took their lives — she opened the notebook, prepared for truth.

She was her sister’s daughter.

Thank you for reading my 50-word micro-fiction story. Your comments are welcome!

This story was written for the prompt, “book.” It’s interesting to see the different ways people interpret prompts and share such different approaches in their micro-fiction stories.

For me, the prompt inspired an exploration of the idea of a hidden history, stowed away inside a book that was not intended to be found — not while the subject of the book was young, certainly, or perhaps ever.