A wail pierced the sombre silence of the graveyard. She continued sobbing, the tears wetting the newly-placed slab on the unmarked grave.
It had been almost a month since their grand-uncle had passed, but Anna was adamant to continue the family tradition of crying your eyes out during a funeral.
“Akka*, why are you crying here?”
“Just like her to be late,” she thought, wiping away a tear, just the way they did in the movies. “To pay my respects, of course. It’s why we’re both here.”
“But Uncle Peter was buried three rows ahead.”
*Akka means elder sister in Tamil.
Word Count 95 : FCA
This month’s WEP theme is Grave Mistake. What’s yours?
Bernadette Braganza 
Ha, ha Bernadette, precious.
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Agree. Short and fun!
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Thank you 😀
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Hi,
Beautiful. She’d even forgot where he was buried.
Shalom aleichem
Pat
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Yup, she was too busy ‘grieving’
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Ha ha. Too funny. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Toi
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Her grief was a real hoot. Thanks for sharing such a lighthearted short piece Bernadette! A ‘grave mistake’ indeed!
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Thanks for reading Denise 🙂
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Wonderful depiction of ostentatious grief.
Regards,
Sanhita.
https://projectionofnaught.blogspot.com
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Oops, grieving with pretend tears would blind you to the fact you’re in the wrong place. Too funny!
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Never thought about it that way 🤔
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Grief doesn’t care if You’ve got the location right. A sweet short story.
Nancy
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Thanks Nancy. Though I sometimes wonder what the actual relatives of the person at whose grave she was crying would think if they saw it.
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Hi Bernadette – a woman of pretensions … wonderful read – thank you! Take care -Hilary
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Thanks Hilary.
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That made me laugh out loud. A neat take on the prompt. Brilliantly done in a teeny tiny wordcount.
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Thanks Nilanjana 🙂
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Hahahah… loved it 🙂 Short and very sweet. Well done.
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Thanks Jemima
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As usual, you share a short and brilliant piece! She quite literally made a grave mistake! Thanks for sharing!
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Oh, clever…very clever!
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Thanks Carrie 🙂
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LOL, now that is a “grave mistake.” Perfect.
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It indeed is 🙂
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A superb vignette that captures the challenge’s theme fantastically. Well done, Bernadette.
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Thanks Christopher 😀
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Marvelous! I almost stopped at the first line, so glad I continued to find it was a pretty funny little story!
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I’m glad too!
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This is great, and reminds me of a story: when my dad died, a couple of my friends said they’d be at the service, they’d meet me at the funeral home. I waited and waited, and wouldn’t let the service begin till they got there. Finally they showed up, and things proceeded. They apologized because they’d gone to the other funeral home a few blocks away…they’d been sitting in a pew there until one of them said, “I didn’t realize her dad was That Old”…checking the name, they realized they were paying respects to some other guy 🙂
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Oooh. That would’ve been embarrassing. Good thing they realised their mistake. Thanks for sharing.
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It was a light moment in the day 🙂
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