“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou

I am long overdue in writing this review and the others I will be posting next.  I like to support my WordPress community by buying their books, but unfortunately, I am not speedy with my reading and reviewing of them.  Sorry.

The Scars We Don’t See was written by Cassa Bassa.  She is the powerful voice behind the blog Flicker of Thoughts  https://flickerofthoughts.com/

She has contributed stories to other books, but this is her first published book.   It is micro-fiction, a combination of very short stories and poems.

I have always been a fan of her blog, specially of how she masterfully conveys so much meaning in so few words. This book didn’t disappoint.

I decided not to read the stories in order.  Each day I opened to a page and let it speak to me. And it did.  Some days it seemed to be written specially for me.     

There are so many wonderful stories, that I love for different reasons.  There is some tragedy and some comedy, and beauty in all of them.

In the section entitled “I See You” she shares her observations of the people she meets and the world around us.  In the section entitled “A Little Bit of Me and a Whole Lot of Fiction”, Cassa shares some of her own self intertwined into fiction. 

Cassa is a sweet soul and her stories reflect all her sensibility.  She is authentic, and nothing in her micro-fiction is predictable.  

Below is one of my favorites. 

Keepsake

There was a poet living in poverty.  His only possession was his words.

He was secretly in love with the shoemaker’s daughter.  So, every day he wrote a love poem and whispered to her as a keepsake.

She was born tender-eyed and was not married, even way past childbearing age.  But all the days of her life, she was happy, especially when she saw how beautiful she was in the mirror.