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"Miss Lettie, you remember those old owls?" "Lord, Zora. You could be talking about 100 upside down things. Care to whittle that number down?" "You know Miss Lettie, those ones you'd hang." "Zora, all you did was eliminate the barn owls.
Miss Lettie was halfway across Main Street, scooter humming like a church fan in August, when she spotted Jaymes on the sidewalk waving at her. Not a normal wave. One of those big, whole-arm, side-to-side greetings that makes you wonder if he's flagging down a
Honey, the world your parents knew, the one I knew, that's a ghost. But that does not mean everything is lost. It just means the soil is ripe for replanting. And right now, it is your turn to decide what grows. I see so many of you stepping
-The Archivist It was biting fly season. Not the worst of it, but enough that Miss Lettie had covered everything from ankle to wrist before stepping out. That’s how a cuff button popped off as she rolled into Fanny and Fran’s Florist on a Tuesday morning when the