Little Ghost Girl
Written for Address In The Stars' Your Spirit Haunts Me Contest
Karin had only been a little girl when she ran away from me, from the life the city offered her. I had never seen eye to eye with her, and not because she had been born blind. Despite all I had done for her, all I had tried to do, she still left.
I hadn't heard from Karin in years, now she is deceased, and I an old woman. Never thinking I'd have to attend my own child's funeral, I drove out into the countryside to examine the house she left me. I hated the countryside, and had never understood Karin's unfathomable love for it.
Who would have known that my blind little daughter would teach me what it really meant to see?
Karin had only been a little girl when she ran away from me, from the life the city offered her. I had never seen eye to eye with her, and not because she had been born blind. Despite all I had done for her, all I had tried to do, she still left.
I hadn't heard from Karin in years, now she is deceased, and I an old woman. Never thinking I'd have to attend my own child's funeral, I drove out into the countryside to examine the house she left me. I hated the countryside, and had never understood Karin's unfathomable love for it.
Who would have known that my blind little daughter would teach me what it really meant to see?
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Little Ghost Girl
Word count: 1000