Pinched in a small, white box, wrapped in a sock,
buried deep in her underwear drawer, the last gift her mother would give her
lies in wait for those occasions when it is brought out from the darkness and slipped
onto the daughter’s finger.
Cast with diamonds from the mother’s wedding
ring out of a marriage born of duty, its memories best left in the past, and a single
blue sapphire added at its center for her own birth, the ring bears decades of
love and sacrifice, blessing and burden.
The daughter’s hand sinks under its weight.
From the
prompt “treasure” from Nancy Stohlman’s Flash Nano 30 Days 30 StoriesChallenge.
