charloft - 100 drabbles - 53. Old photographs

Picture of old photographs

She kept them in a small box in the very back of her closet. It wasn’t often that she pulled them out, but once in a while the mood would strike and she would feel the need to relive parts of her life that were now long over.

Here were the places she had once seen that no longer existed, or were far different from how she knew them. Here were friends and lovers who had long ago drifted out of her life, whether by distance or by death.

Here were not just pictures, but memories she could never forget.