Porthole

Siblings

Cass--Autumn Spirit inspired my comment regarding siblings. Guess we both had 2 younger sisters!

"I have two younger sisters. When I changed my mind about having a younger sister it was already too late! Now? We kinda get along... but we live in three different states.

Without a challenge to provide prompts and focus, I just steal prompts or ideas from other bloggers if my mind goes blank. Maybe I'll write about my sisters later... "

And then I got sidetracked by writing another flash fiction:

STATIC

One too many (299 words)  (18+) 300 word flash: star, eye, cross. A plane lands with an extra passenger. #2207011 by Kåre เลียม Enga

and presenting two others at the library and whooping over getting two postcards from THANKFUL SONALI Love my family and getting a notice from KLM Flying Blue that I'm back up to the Silver Level (important because I may get an occasional upgrade for free).

I forgot to blog.

So sisters... My older (16 months younger than me) sister and I grew up at the same time in the same environment. Because my mother was a bit sheltering *shrug* we played a lot together. She was bigger and stronger and more athletic. I was skinny, shy and more nerdy. But... even now we tend to see eye-to-eye on many things. My father worked overtime so he was more the disciplinarian.

My younger sister... is different... our parents raised her different. She always felt she had 4 parents not two. She's also 8 years younger. She was very close to my father; I wasn't. She grew up less sheltered, more independent, feistier. She's a tosser; we are sentimental.

We all do like animals though.

Now we live far apart. Our mother is 97 and driving my younger sister nuts. My other sister wanted our mother to come live with her... probably too late now.

Our family isn't "close" either. I did manage to tell our Aunt Dot about the current affairs but I'm the only one who keeps in touch with her.

Maybe if we all lived in the same town?

But we don't.

I don't think the younger generation even knows each other...

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