Part I
I dance, struggling to make up a fancy-dancy tap step with the polished toes of my church shoes. I hold my precious transistor tightly against my ear and sing along. Tippity-tapping on the hallway floor, on nice and shiny, just-polished wood. The echoes from the wood make great echoes and I make a good [...]
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14 Dec
Bo’s Family and the Fracas
30 Oct
Mountain Dew
Grandpa and I survey the freshly weeded garden as sudden splashes of rain smack our bare arms. “Bo, grab that basket of rhubarb and dash them into the kitchen. I’ll finish up out here.” He scoops the garden tools from the ground and tosses them into the wheelbarrow as I run across the backyard, balancing [...]
1 Oct
Bo’s Introductions
I’m Manda and I write stories about my wacky family. Sometimes they are stories I read to my whole family after dinner. Sometimes, they’re secret stories and I lock them in my diary and hide them in a shoe box under my bed.
So here’s my family. There are four generations and we live in [...]
