Grandfather

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Opening the cardboard box, he pulled out his grandfather’s old chess set. They spent many an afternoon playing this game. Sometimes Pops allowed him to win. As he got older, their matches were better paired.

‘Daddy, what are you looking at?’

He picked up a piece and held it in the palm of his hand.

‘A pawn?’

‘A prawn?’

He laughed, for the very first time since his funeral. ‘No, not the type you eat. How about I show you how to play?’

He gently placed the wooden chest on the kitchen table. Placing the pieces on the chequered board. The pawns as the initial line of defence. The rook, horse, and Bishop. In the middle, the king and queen.

‘What’s this horsey?’

‘A warrior, and he moves two up and one across.’

He remembered his grandfather, as his son won the first game.

Published by writerravenclaw

I am a fifty something mother of two grown up children, and one beautiful grandchild. I have been married for nearly thirty-four years. My first book was published ten years ago. I wrote my book Sticks and Stones because of my experience of being bullied at school.

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