Won Hundred Word Wednesday.

 Why had no-one ever mentioned Mum's twin?

 

Standing by the casket, I nodded numbly as the mourners passed, offering their condolences. She’d suffered for months, wasting away to almost nothing as she fought the cancer we hadn’t caught in time. Their assurances she was no longer in pain didn’t help.

Now it was just me and Karl since Dad had gone to set up their mansion in heaven a couple years before.

As the viewing drew to a close and the visitors dwindled, I leaned my head against Karl’s shoulder and gasped when a woman walked in the door.

Why had no one ever mentioned Mum’s twin?