SIX SENTENCE CHALLENGE….clue is Change Thursday, January 14, 2016
Martha’s Drastic Change
Martha was seven years old when she experienced a real change in her young life.
Her mother, dying of cancer, insisted that Martha be taken to her maternal grandparents to raise, so her father drove over to their house after his wife passed away, literally dropped her off and told her grandparents that she was theirs to raise!
Martha had two older brothers, however, they stayed with their father.
Martha’s grandparents took very good care of her, however, she never received the personal nurturing that every child needs and deserves, and this drastic change in her life was devastating for her.
At the age of fourteen, Martha experienced another change in her life when her grandparents passed away and she went back to live with her father.
At the age of twenty, she fell in love with a very handsome, educated young man, married him within a few months and they had nine children of which were five girls, four boys and each boy served in the military….army, navy, air force, and marine corp.
Copyright © 2016 Written by Jessie Cross ~ All rights reserved
Reflections Of Life's Journey 
Heh, nice twist – I was expecting the duel outside! Nicely done 🙂
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Thanks so much! Just some brotherly love. 🙂
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Phew! Nice building of tension 🙂
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Thank you! I use to watch westerns all the time, but never saw this acted out before! Needed something different. 🙂
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LOL! I thought there was going to be a bar fight! Nice twist at the end! Love it!
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Thanks, Joy! No fights for me today. 🙂
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LOL! Great story!
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Good story. It’s only two brothers reuniting not a brawl or dual.
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Thank you, Mandi. It’s a peaceful day today. 🙂
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I’m confused. This story is now about Martha’s Drastic Change. I really feel sorry for Martha but it seems her change was for the better when she married and had 9 children! Great story Jessie!
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Joy, I just realized after posting a reply to the confusion of Martha’s Drastic Change…that on my screen it appears under comments made about my story Sugarfoot…which some how has disappeared!!! All comments about Sugarfoot now appear under Martha’s story. I have no idea how the system did this and not quite sure how to fix it!
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Oh dear! I have not had that happen before. That is strange!
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Thank you, Joy! Her drastic change was losing her mother and having to be raised by her grandparents for seven years while her brothers were raised by her father. After having adjusted, I assume, to seven years with her grandparents, she was uprooted once again and finished being raised by her father. Of course the happy change came when she married her true love.
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Nice story. I expected different ending as week.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Wow…at first i read the comments and had to reread the story to see what i missed…then saw the comment about the mix up….relieved…i thought i truly missed something!!! Martha didnt seem in any danger of a bar room brawl!!!!
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Thank you for reading and commenting…please read message below in my response to ..Irconsiderer
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Yup, thought I might be missing something. Poor Martha – glad things turned out better in the end.
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Thank you for reading and commenting…please read my response to Irconsiderer …below
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What a tempestuous life! I hope she found the long-term comfort and connection she was looking for. (P.S. TOTALLY mis-read your last line at first, and thought that she’d somehow had nine kids within a few months, and was marvelling at her incredible fecundity, or wondering if she’d adopted!)
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She did find the comfort and life she was looking for. She was a very soft spoken, sweet lady. THIS STORY IS TRUE, every word……..this remarkable woman was my mother-in-law that passed away years ago. I am disappointed that this story was in the mix up of the other story and I am still trying to find out how this happened! I do not input the comments, and certainly do not type in that message at the top where it says 18 thoughts on “Martha’s Drastic Change” . The post published before this one was called Sugarfoot and it disappeared after comments were made.
IF THERE IS ANYONE THAT CAN TELL ME WHO I CAN CONTACT TO GET THIS CORRECTED , I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. I ask the question on the WordPress Support site, but no one has been able to answer it…yet.
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wait a minute!! no duel!?! (lol just kidding….) as a Six Sentence, I liked the story. (For me, there was a sense of broad cycles of life playing through generations).
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Ha! Ha! …no dueling here. Thank you, I appreciate your comment. 🙂
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It was so good to see that following the loss and sadness of her early life she was able to rebound and surround herself with family and love.
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Indeed! She did it well, and I can testify to that fact. Thank you for reading and commenting.
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I love it when family histories can be preserved, and this six sentence story format seems to work really well–it’s not so overwhelming, I guess.
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You’re right…it works really well. Thank you. 🙂
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I could sense immediately that this was a true story, and what had to be some terribly difficult changes for a young girl to experience mercifully turned out ok, as she went on to make a good and happy life for herself and her family. This story could have turned out much differently. Blessings to those who knew her and those she raised up to be good people!
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Thank you so much for your comment. You’re right, it could have turned out quite differently, however, being the type of person she was, she was able to overcome life’s obstacles and live a happy and productive life.
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Some changes bring us to a better place eventually.
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That’s true and sometimes we just don’t realize it until later. Thank you for reading and commenting.
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