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Lost Time
“This is the last and final warning,” the small elderly man grunted at us as we sat in the back corner of the library, “Have you no respect for the other patrons?”I slowly looked around as did Alma. We both shrugged. There was no one else in the library and we hadn’t been talking. We watched as the old man tottered off back behind his counter and computer. “What a grump,” Alma said under her breath and bifocals.“Shut it Alma,” I retorted quickly, “We’ll get in real trouble.”Alma snorted, “What’s he going to do? Throw us out? I can walk fast with my walker and you could whack him with your can...
Unsuccessful Installments
Unsuccessful Installments—George DavisWhat excuse can I use? My library book is overdue by sixty-four days. Five cents times sixty-four is three dollars and twenty cents. If it cost a nickel to go around the world. I couldn’t get out of my dooryard. I am flat broke, and my father won’t lend me any more money. He says I haven’t paid him back since I was five. I called my very best friend, Salvatore Pignetti. Maybe he can lend me enough money to pay for my delinquent book. “Hi, Sal, how’s it going?” “What is it you want now, Michael?” Did I say best friend? Why would he question my phone call?...
Just Change, Please!
Milky’s Postal Service truck stopped with a lurch at the next mailbox. She grabbed some letters and the small white package, storing them in the metal cylinder. Shutting the door, Milky commented on the fact that every time she pulled a mailbox open, her jaw automatically dropped. But today was going to be a good day, she nodded to herself. She had a job, a house and even a small dog she dressed up every Halloween to hopefully get some laughs out of the toddlers and babies. Doughnut hated wearing a tutu or a tiara, but she panted and wagged her tail nevertheless. Maybe s...
HOME AND HEARTH
HEARTH AND HOMEBy the lamplight, I wrote my mothers name in neat bold lettering Naomi Ruth (Dysart) Keene in our family Bible. The Bible had been passed down from one generation to the next with the previous entry entered only six months ago. Mother had placed fathers name: Joseph Allen Keene, born April 14, 1888- died December 23, 1937、 Beneath his name was my mothers with her birth and death dates listed May 21www.onedoor.cc, 1902 and June 20, 1938、 Later I would enter the birth information about my infant sister, enduring this day, this documentation was enough. Tomorrow was a...