Fallen Leaves: A Short Story

by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

Fifteen-year-old Grace Sather can't understand why her mother would want her great-grandmother to move in with them. Great-Gran hates Mom. But before Mom can talk Gran into it, Gran has a bad fall and ends up in the hospital. Now a long buried-secret is about to reveal itself.


Fallen Leaves is a short story which should appeal to readers of YA and literary fiction.

Genres: Short Stories, Ebooks

ebook

First published June 12, 2012

About the author

Rachel Elizabeth Cole loves bunnies, tea, autumn, and working in her pyjamas. She lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband, their two sons, and two very spoiled house rabbits.

Along with children's books, she also writes literary women's fiction and chicklit. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines both online and in print.

Reviews

[Jarvis · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Falling-Like-Leaves-And-Rain Stars!!



Another short story by Rachel Elizabeth Cole. I recently read Miss Popularity: A Short Story by her, and I wasn't much impressed, but this book was comparatively better than Miss Popularity.

It is about a family with three daughter, a mother and a granny, and how they feel when the granny passes away. A very touching book, I must say, the only problem with short stories is that they sound incomplete, and the same thing happened with this one. It wasn't a bad book nor a very amazing book. It was good, short and simple. Liked it :)

*I got this book in YA Spring Fling*

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid story. Twist at the end is interesting and the husband has no sympathy from me, nor the Gran. All for the poor mom. 3 solid stars.

[Tori · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good short story with a surprise twist.

[Holly Letson · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75*

This short story has a little more content than Miss Popularity, but is still highly lacking. It seems strangely rushed, as though the mother in the story hated "Great-Gran" and--by association--other people that were related to her. She doesn't seem to have much time for her children, as she spends her time worrying about "Great-Gran", and doesn't really seem to feel all that saddened when "Great-Gran" passes on.

I didn't like how it seemed that the mother "accidentally" killed her own husband by trying to slit her tires out of pure jealousy of him going to dinner at "Great-Gran"'s house. I also wish there had been more to the story after she made this big revelation to her children.

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

A compelling story about a familly quite broken by a tragedy story when the father of three girls died and leave his wife, three daugthers, and his grand mother alone.

The story takes body as the grandama enters the story. She is a very old lady with health problems sharpened after her grandchild has died.

The widow after this incident wants to take grandma to her house with the girls, but grandma does not want that, and in that thrill moment the reall story gets to unveil.

An accident, how the husband died, the culpability of the widow, the angriness of the grandma, and the desesperation in the girls. and the finall moment of pardon.

A really good one. I liked it.

[Madeline · Rating 2 out of 5]

This short story is about a family whose grandma wasn't the most pleasant person to have around nor very nice to her daughter-in-law. When the grandma passes they actually miss her a bit, even if she didnt treat them all with respect & love as family should to one another. I guess it shows u that u will miss what you no longer have, even if it may not seem like they deserve it. It was a quick read.

[Saša Varjohukka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Zajímavá pointa.

[Ann Herrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I felt the ending was a little abrupt, it's a nicely written story that held my attention so that I read it straight through.

[Anna Wadlow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very disappointed. Just as I was getting into this book it was over.

[Colleen Lahey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick short story but very well written.

[Dee-Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Teetering between 3 and 4 stars. It was an interesting short story, which had me compelled, ut I needed it to be a bit longer ... what happened after the revelation from the mother.