Flash Friday # 24: The Earring

Earring


By


Lazette Gifford
 


I found my mother's lost earring
in the car two days after I got back home.


We had spent almost all of the
sweltering Sunday afternoon looking for it, tearing through the front seat and
the back (though she had not gone anywhere near that area).  I had suffered in obedient, daughterly
silence all the while my mother shook her head, made disparaging sounds