This is from the same writing group video chat that I was a part of the other week. For this picture prompt, I have the actual picture that we used, though I don't know where it originally comes from. And the paragraph and a quarter that I wrote for this prompt is something that I liked and might possibly use for something in the future. But I could change my mind by then, I don't know. Anyhow, I wanted to share it with you all, like I did with the last two paragraphs that I wrote.
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The old house stood alone surrounded by dying trees and browning
grass. No one had lived in it since the owner, a woman by the name of Miss
Whitman had passed away several years before. Since she had no living
relatives that people could find the house stood alone and forgotten. Until one
day when a strange young woman appeared at the office of the only lawyer in town.
Placing a small stack of papers on the surprised man’s desk, the young woman
informed the lawyer that she was Miss Whitman’s daughter and had only just
learned of her mother’s passing. Stammering, and pushing up the glasses on his
face with a finger, the lawyer, a middle-aged man named Mr. Thornberry, informed
the woman that the deceased had no living relatives. Rolling her eyes the woman
pushed the stack of papers across the desk to Mr. Thornberry and told him to
take a close look at everything that was there. Turning away the woman said
that once he was done reading that he could notify her at the hotel at the edge
of town. Once the strange woman had left the office, Mr. Thornberry carefully
picked up the papers and began looking through them. As he looked, he notices
that some of the pages were quite old and had almost faded writing on it.
Dividing everything into stacks Mr. Thornberry carefully laminated the older
pages before he stacked everything into a pile again to read. When the office
closed for the day, a short time after the strange visit, Mr. Thornberry carefully
collected the stack of papers and placed them into a large manila envelope and
placed it in his briefcase. Sighing he walked down the street to his home and
went inside for dinner.
As Mr. Thornberry and his wife at dinner, he told her about
the strange woman who had come to the office claiming to be Miss Whitman’s long-lost
daughter. Raising her eyebrows Mrs. Thornberry said that was very interesting. Agreeing
with his wife on that he said that the woman had left a stack of papers at the
office for him to read and go over. Nodding Mrs. Thornberry asked if he needed
help looking through the papers.
That is all for now and I hope that you enjoyed reading this one as well as the last two that I wrote.
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