Pieces of Time (Short Story)

"I removed the headset and placed it carefully on the table. For a while I sat there, unable to move. All I could do was turn over her words again and again in my head, think about all the things that I had never known about her. Why had she chosen to tell me such important things now, when there was no way I could ever reply? A feeling of resentment coursed through my veins. She should have talked to me when she was alive, face to face, instead of cowering behind a façade of a distant time. She was wrong, I told myself. I would have listened. Except, like her, I wasn't sure about how true that really was."

There's nothing more depressing than being told the contents of your dead mother's will, especially when you are alone in a room with a wilted pot plant and a man who clearly doesn't want to be there. Although Lily is the sole recipient of her mother's estate, the two didn't exactly have a close relationship. However, when Ms L. Logan leaves her daughter a memory along with her mansions, Lily finally uncovers the pieces of time that led to her mother becoming the bitter and controlling woman she thought she knew.