Once again Wednesday, and a new picture to write a story on. This week it’s a wonderful picture from Jennifer Pendergast (who of course own all rights to the picture). The story is part three of my epistolary by Jennifer to John. Check it out if you want to part1 and part2.
This is hopefully the last part.
I had to take a little bit more symbolic take on the picture this time. But the intention is to give you yet a surprise.
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Copyright Jennifer Pendergast
Dear Jennifer,
I know what I did hurt you beyond what’s bearable. John was always the man you were meant to spend your life with, and our brief fling left you with unsatisfied needs. I hope you found your way back to John and that you now raised a family behind a white picket fence.
I had to disappear completely and therefore faked my own death. I couldn’t face you or John any longer.
I have been at the bottom and I’m finally climbing back to life again. I hope I can someday face my family again.
Brotherly love
Ralph
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March 6, 2013
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Now that was what they call a ‘denoument’. I’m very, very angry at Ralph. Well done.
And last week everyone thought Jennifer was the bad person… 🙂
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Plenty of nice twists and issues here, Bjorn.
janet
Indeed. I wonder if I have overdone this a little bit. 🙂 Might have to do a Deus ex Machina to get out of all complications.
hmm now that’s a another twist to the sordid story. I’d like to see the three of them at a table.
Hmm it might be violent.
From the looks of it he’s got along climb ahead of him. It’s unfortunate because it looks as if he is taking all the blame on himself. Terrific storytelling.
Hmm. I’m liking your little tale of intrigue. Still not sure Jennifer is innocent. I bet she did seduce Ralph, even if she didn’t kill him. Nice work!
Yeah. I’m still sitting with my eyebrows up at Jennifer. She cannot be the innocent, can she?
Good to have some more explanation. Well done!
Neatly done.
I’m really hoping Ralph doesn’t actually turn out to be her brother and the “Brotherly love” is as innocent as it’s meant to be!
I see that you have left the door open for a sequel!
And the saga continues…hmmmm
Just perfectly done with the prompt as a backdrop for your words!
I would love to see this continued. The letter format is good because it leaves so much room for the imagination of the reader.
Dear Björn,
Talk about your dead letter office. The plot thickens. Who really was the baddie in this tangled web? Nicely woven.
shalom,
Rochelle
Poor Jennifer… obviously I have to feel sorry for my namesake 😉 Excellent trilogy Brudberg.
What is Jennifer going to do now? very interesting
That’s a great change in point of view from the last story’s letter. It really fleshes out the whole situation with the three of them. Is there more to come with these characters?
Boy is he going to get a black eye from her. Very clever! I like the serial idea very much…
What a *******! I think Ralph now needs to write to John to explain himself, although that might make it all a bit too neat. The three letters taken together tell such a huge story. Well done.
There. I told you she was a good’un really.
Ooo! Might have been better for her if he hadn’t written that letter.Scott
Mine: http://kindredspirit23.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/friday-fictioneers-482013-bye-bye-genre-horror/
Really creative using the stairs as symbolic to pulling one self back up from a fall in life. Nice.
What the hell is going on here??? Now Ralph surfaces after all the years? Poor Jennifer took the fall and spent time in prison and it sounds like he doesn’t know. Yeah, I’d say he has a lot of climbing to do and a few surprises in order.
Björn… you cannot stop the story now!
Just jumped back over here to reread yours. I see why it’s hard to figure out what to do with all the pieces. You have some great material… so very intriguing… but how to get all three perspectives into the story without giving away the twist? Unless… and this is just throwing out ideas… Write from John’s point of view only. He could watch the affair between Ralph and Jennifer unfold, mourn Ralph’s death, struggle with what to do with Jennifer, finally accept her back, then, just as things are going well (maybe she’s expecting a child) find letters from Ralph among her belongings. I think, though, that the letters should place a hefty portion of the blame on Jennifer, leaving the reader to wonder who is really to blame. Just a thought… That may not be at all where you want this to go. You might find some inspiration in Daphne DuMaurier’s My Cousin Rachel.
we all have some bad in us. some more then others. Great continuation of the story
this triangle is very intriguing indeed. Brotherly love hahaha
Dear Bjorn,
i like the way you are braching out and experimenting with the format. Good job from a fine writer.
Aloha,
Doug
That scoundrel. To think we had pity for him! It just goes to show you cannot make the determination without all the information.
“I have been at the bottom and I’m finally climbing back to life again.”
So, the theme of this soap is ‘the spiral of life’. Perhaps. 🙂
Great job tying it all together! A “which part of the elephant” exercise in story-telling if there ever was one. And you did it with three dissimilar prompts, not knowing what would come next. Very well done!
Sounds like there’s a possibility of redemption for all of them and the three of them will move into the farm and live happily ever after.
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😆 Didn’t expect that either
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