Flash Fiction #240 – Birth Mom

Flash Fiction #240 – Birth Mom

My normally loving mother, Gladys, would get hostile anytime I asked about my birth parents.

My secret search stopped when Gladys got cancer.

When Momma died, I vowed that was that… until my aunt gave me my birth certificate at her funeral.

Maiden Name of Mother: Gladys ParsonName of Father: Josiah Monroe.


Auntie hugged me. “Sissy was a child when he hurt her. She was forced to give you up but married a random man to reclaim you. She wanted to tell you, but telling you meant you’d know your father.”