my grandma's disremembered stories

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Written, August 01, 2025/AI Free
For the International Contest, Go Fish - A Book Prize
Sponsor, Suzette Richards

grandma, the family storyteller in old age would forget so her stories changed with the retelling but an essence of truth remained her voice echoes in my heart was each story semantic to grandma new in ambiguity to her with random memories merging I am the storyteller now looking into the calm reflective waters of time seeking recollected memories that echo my words specular with reflected words I am that girl at the kitchen table listening to her musical voice impacting me I wonder did she realize her life ending did she want to give me her gift I often escape into her fugue of melodic telling her unexpected memory with all the beautiful failures that perhaps only I who wished to be like her who knew her stories told over years would grasp

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