I had absolutely no idea what marrons were when I first read this line. And for someone who generally looks up words she doesn’t know, I waited an extraordinarily long time to investigate this one. Marrons are sweet chestnuts, Castanea sativa. They can be roasted, or they can be soaked in sugar syrup and vanilla … More Marrons at Last! A Sweet Chestnut Discovery
Kismet Takes a Hand It Always Does Where There’s a Man and a Woman With the sleeves of her blue linen smock rolled above her elbows, Patricia Langdon was intent on soldering a silver box cover. Slender, youthful, she stood with her foot on a treadle and by pressure increased or diminished the heat from … More “Kismet Takes a Hand,” A Short Story by Emilie Loring
If a character in the book you were reading put her laptop and her HydroFlask into the same tote bag, you’d call it foreshadowing. I missed it, though. In a hurry to follow the ambulance taking my mom to the hospital, I was utterly surprised when I looked into the bag and found my laptop … More When Troubles Abound, “Kick, Frog, Kick!”
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