Yet again, a week has passed and it's time for a new six-sentence story. This week I wrote something a bit different from my usual entries, and it’s also the first week in a while that I have been able to rest. Yay. The blog hop itself is hosted by GirlieOnTheEdge.
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Write 6 sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
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PROMPT WORD: INTEREST
Six-Sentence Story - Fourteen Years of Interest
Quen sat on the bathroom floor, staring at the pregnancy test in her trembling hands — for six years she had tried to conceive: hormonal treatments, a failed round of IVF, and two miscarriages.
All those treatments and failures had eventually made her give up on the dream; honestly speaking, she didn't even know if being a mother was truly her dream at all, or if it was simply what she felt she had to do as a woman and a wife.
What made it even more ironic was the timing: a week earlier, her own sister had announced at a family dinner that she was carrying the child of Quen’s now soon-to-be ex-husband and expected Quen to do the right thing and step aside.
Even the man himself, who had once promised to love her for better or worse had told her that his life had no place for a barren wife and moved the pregnant sister in before Quen had even thought about packing her toothbrush.
However, karma tends to accumulate interest far more patiently than any human would; it took fourteen years for the ex-husband to discover that the child he had raised and loved was not his at all, and the child of the woman he had once rejected wanted nothing to do with him.
In fact, the only things Adrian had inherited from his father were traceable on his face; he was a bright young man who stood by his mother, for she had given him everything he needed in life to grow into a well-mannered and kind-hearted man.
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I would hope karma was above using offspring as weapons….
I would hope so too but often than not it finds the most hurtful way to teach it’s lesson.
I hope they will at least find a way to have some type of a relationship, and perhaps the son he loved needes a father too.
Who knows. Hopefully they will find a way out of the mess.
Fate shows her hand. A few hidden surprises make good subplots.
Thank you for the comment and yeah, subplots… Lovely things…
Good karma, indeed! Plus, I don’t know much about kids either.
Same. I don’t know about kids much as I don’t have any myself but I do like them.
Both Quen’s husband and her sister betrayed her. There seems to be no way out of karma especially if interest is charged on top.
Yeah, I believe that even is situations like that life will work out itself… No need to push the revenge… Karma is a thing.
“…karma tends to accumulate interest far more patiently than any human would;”
such a good line, a quiet yet powerful judgment on the the s-t-b-ex and the sister thing.
very engaging Six
Thank you,
sorry for the late reply,
my spam filter has seemingly gone a bit harsh last week for some reason. Good I checked the que of declined comments to be deleted,
and am glad you liked it and thought it was engaging.
I am not easy with the concept of predestination but I do believe that every decision becomes a lesson, and that the ripples from one decision affects an unknown number of people. I reckon a lot of people will feel the ripples from this decision.
Yes, exactly!
What you do will affect those around you and those around them. And that’s why your actions can *feed the karma*
partly.
I agree.
And while I am not someone who feels using a child as a punishment is correct, in this story it was the child’s decision.
And those things happen in life too.
I’m not sure about Karma, I believe we reap what we sow, and I’m glad Quen reaped a boy who was smart and strong enough to stand with her, and he was left with nothing.
I too am glad she decided that the child was not at fault and managed to raise a kind hearted boy.
And I think that believe that Karma is just a chain reaction of your actions.
Thank you for the comment.