Glenn watched as the mailman stuffed the letters into the open receptacle. Slowly, she opened the door. “Ryan!” She called to her twin sister. A tall girl with long, jet black hair flew down the stairs. Ryan and Glenn walked across the street in a slow and dignified manner. They rang the door bell simultaneously. “Hello, Mrs. Greene. We came to alert our mother that the mail has arrived.” Glenn smiled at their ill-tempered neighbor. Not giving the poor dear time to turn around, the twins’ mother ran to them. “Is it here?” She begged.
“Most definitely!” Ryan said loudly. Loud enough for the whole neighborhood.
“Are you sure that it’s… it?” Mother asked them, purposely arousing suspicion. Glenn and Ryan nodded. Neighbors peeked their heads out of the screen doors that hot July day in 1949. Even grumpy Mr. Terr showed up in his bathrobe. “Joan, what’ve you got there?” He asked.
“Oh, you’ll just have to wait until Mr. Tweed comes home if you really want to see!” Her voice rang. The girls couldn’t wait.
About the author
Laine P. Grey
At a charming little cattle farm, near a pretty deadly lake
I got my copy of Breaking Dawn at 12:04 AM, Saturday, August 2, 2008! Oh yeah, number 15.
I am now officially in the League of Awesomeness as The Sarcastic Scribe
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like life, particularly a good one, which is well worth staying up all night to finish. —Lemony Snicket
Start of Billy Joel song Series
http://ficlets.com/stories/36126
Start of Leningrad
http://ficlets.com/stories/37014
This summer I am reading, writing, counting days, and allowing the cat to steal my shrimp. Feel free to join in.
Most of my Ficlets are inspired by books, Billy Joel, or Jack Johnson songs.
So, if you’ve read Adverbs by Daniel Handler, then you know that each chapter is titled with a different adverb, and contains the same character names although, each story is essentially separate. The characters often repeat a phrase in another story or they mention a character that was in the previous story. That is what I’m going to do with the “Goode Callen” story, but mine will be titled with verbs. It starts with my entry in a challenge: http://ficlets.com/stories/39031
If you haven’t already, you simply must see I’m Reed Fish, In America, and Bon Voyage.
“I was born in ‘49, a Cold War kid in McCarthy times. Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blow those yellow reds to hell. Cold War kids were hard to kill under their desks in an air raid drill. Haven’t they heard we’ve won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?”—“Leningrad”, Billy Joel (Part of the Billy Joel Posse with T. F. Torrey, pens&feathers, and BARomero.)
Published on September 07, 2007.
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