Photo Courtesy of Tess Anderson Photography
Welcome to another edition of Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up, in which the given word is “bookmark.” In the below excerpt from Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me, sixteen-year-old Natalie, after learning who her real father is, finding his website, and telling her parents, expresses her reluctance to email information about her real father to the man she thought was her father for all those years. Let’s see what she has to say.
***
Showing Bill Hadley’s picture on my iPad to Mom, then Dad, was the stupidest thing I’d ever done. Dad said I was still his daughter, that all this didn’t matter. So why did he want me to email him Bill Hadley’s website address?
I thought about telling Dad I’d forgotten to bookmark the website. But he was a good lawyer. He could always tell when someone was lying, and I’d never been able to get him to believe my lies in the past.
***
So, does Natalie supply information about her real father to the lawyer she thought was her father, or does she decide to try lying to him one more time? You’ll need to read the book in order to find out. By the way, Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me and two of my other books can be downloaded free from Smashwords until the end of the month. See below for details.
Thanks to Girlie on the Edge for inspiring me to post the above excerpt with her six-sentence story prompt for this week. You can click here to participate in this week’s hop and read other bloggers’ six-sentence creations.
***
If you haven’t already done so, please subscribe to my email list to receive my twice-yearly newsletter and other announcements. This is a one-way announcements list, meaning the only messages you’ll receive will come from me. So, you can rest assured that this list is low-traffic. Send a blank email to: newsfrommycorner+subscribe@groups.io You’ll receive a confirmation email. Reply to that with another blank message, and you should be good to go.
***
And now, I’m pleased to announce that until the end of the month, all my books on Smashwords can be downloaded ABSOLUTELY FREE as part of the Smashwords summer/winter sale. You can visit my Smashwords author page here to download these books. Happy reading!
New! Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me
Copyright 2021 by Abbie Johnson Taylor.
Independently published with the help of DLD Books.
Sixteen-year-old Natalie’s grandmother, suffering from dementia and confined to a wheelchair, lives in a nursing home and rarely recognizes Natalie. But one Halloween night, she tells her a shocking secret that only she and Natalie’s mother know. Natalie is the product of a one-night stand between her mother, who is a college English teacher, and another professor.
After some research, Natalie learns that people with dementia often have vivid memories of past events. Still not wanting to believe what her grandmother has told her, she finds her biological father online. The resemblance between them is undeniable. Not knowing what else to do, she shows his photo and website to her parents.
Natalie realizes she has some growing up to do. Scared and confused, she reaches out to her biological father, and they start corresponding.
Her younger sister, Sarah, senses their parents’ marital difficulties. At Thanksgiving, when she has an opportunity to see Santa Claus, she asks him to bring them together again. Can the jolly old elf grant her request?
***
My Corner 
Interesting point that good lawyers seem to know when someone is lying.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah, maybe they have a sixth sense or something. Who knows? Thanks for commenting.
LikeLiked by 1 person
She seems to have caught his lie “It doesn’t matter…you are still my daughter:)”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, she’s insecure. I can imagine how I might have felt at that age if I found out my dad wasn’t really my dad. Thank you for commenting and following me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You are welcome.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Honesty is the best policy, and that goes for the adoptive parents, too. Every case i’ve known of children who found out instead of being told did not end well.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, you might want to read the book and find out how this particular case turns out. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
LikeLike
That’s a lot on anyone’s plate, let alone a 16 year old’s. Natalie may have been old enough to search, then find her biological father, but there’s no way she’ll be able to understand her Dad’s feelings until he sits down with her and tells her. If, he does.
I know, Abbie! I probably should read the book because I may be way off base! 😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, you should read the book, but you’re not off base at all. Thank you for commenting.
LikeLike