Formidable Formicidae

Here's my latest entry in 

Five Sentence Fiction

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Lillie McFerrin Writes

This week's topic is  Highway

The (Thanksgiving) Party's Over

We’ve waved the last wave and 

the grandboys are on their way 

back to the mountains of New Jersey. 

Thanksgiving Villanelle

I thought it was high time we had a little culture around here.

The Urn of Infamy

Among the assortment of part-time jobs I had as my children were growing up was the position of ward secretary on the neurological floor of the local hospital. 

Dance of the Ages

Time for another installment of  

Five Sentence Fiction

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Lillie McFerrin Writes

This week's topic is  Dance.

Best Day Evah!

     Baseball season has ended, and in our neck of the woods it was a very BIG DEAL.
       Very big.  
Just in case you are immersed in some upstart sport like say, soccer (okay, football to some of you) or extreme Frisbee, you may not know that the Boston Red Sox just won the World Series. Still unclear? Think World Cup. And your home team just won it.  Big doings. 

Beware of Little Girls Bearing Candy

Halloween is over for another year and yesterday was pretty much the same as in the past. Anyone on foot wanting to visit our house must first travel up a fairly busy road that climbs the small mountain we have here in town. After about ¼ mile they turn onto a dead-end street of six houses and then turn again to our street of three houses, also a dead-end. Not the most fertile territory for efficient candy-gathering. And it was raining last night.