Short Stories are feeding me lately....with rice cakes at my side...... Mmmmm, mmmm, good stuff, reading and rice cakes. They go so good together. Especially as the sun comes through the blinds and the heat warms folded legs. It's a Friday afternoon and I'm reading in the sun. Pssst, psst, Spring is Coming.....in all her Regalia, lillies and daffodils, svelte and audacious, she's on her way. Little sprites are popping out of the ground; to see them along the path is to be surprised, an instant smile inside. They are sneaky, little messengers, harbingers of long days to come. ....Maybe you'll find time to read a short story or two:Gryphon by Charles Baxter......is magical! Or John Updike's ("Writing is a way of taming the world, turning the inchoate, often embarrassing stream into a package.") A & P. Let's just say the first one took me by surprise. I get a woman like Helena Bonhem Carter as the teacher in this story, just nutty and beauty and funny and fun! And in the second, a particular grocery store comes to mind each time I read it. I love that story, A&P.
Scout is here, the sun is out, and Spring is flirting with us. What could be better?
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