As My Sister Lay Dying
secrets
We have secrets, my sister and I.
At sixteen
she left without telling our
mother
to live with our father in the
Outback.
It seared our mother to the bone
when she found the note
on the kitchen table.
My sister, my father’s favourite,
found our parents marriage break
up
particularly devastating.
She hurt all her life
she had wounded our mother.
I haven't told anyone about it,
she said
Not even my children.
Substitute Bride - Regency novel
Thank you so much, hajjandumrah. Laurel
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