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    Burning Garbage
    Burning Garbage
    Burning Garbage
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    Burning Garbage

    By Leola Harlan Crosley

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    A collection of short stories, this Anthology's anchor title is a powerful story of poetic justice; most of the others in the collection are more light-hearted, and should bring a smile to the reader's face; or possibly leave the reader utterly baffled.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeola Harlan Crosley
    Release dateJul 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301352982
    Burning Garbage
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    Leola Harlan Crosley

    I'm married, have three adult children, and three grandchildren. I have a Bachelors Degree in Letters, Arts, & Sciences from Penn State University, and a certificate in editing and proofreading from Rutgers University. My favorite hobby is playing Mountain Dulcimer in a local group, The Sandy Lick Mountain Dulcimer Players. I'm a person of faith, I love nature and the natural world. I'm a country girl, I love to fish and boat, but loved my visits to New York City. I've traveled the east coast of America, and the American West. Abroad I've been to Toronto, Canada; Guatemala, and Spain.

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      Burning Garbage - Leola Harlan Crosley

      Burning Garbage

      a collection of short stories

      by Leola Harlan Crosley

      copyright 2013 LLCrosley

      Smashwords edition

      Discover other titles by Leola Harlan Crosley at Smashwords.com:

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Table of Contents

      Burning Garbage

      Leftover Soup

      The Ample Miss Anderson

      The Murder of Eleven-Thirty

      The Spinning of the Yarn

      Window Shopping

      One Fish

      Weapons of Mass Destruction

      Silver Spoon

      Trespassers

      Overlooked

      Imagine That

      In the Bag

      Sugar Daddy

      23

      A Calming Hope

      Doofus Duo

      Burning Garbage

      It was safe behind the chair in this corner of the parlor. There were few safe places here. Her room wasn’t safe. Her Grandmother’s flower garden was safe, but it was two doors down the street. Her Grandma’s house wasn’t safe either; just the hidden garden, a small patch of grass surrounded by tall, yellow-flowered plants.

      She knew to stay quiet and out of the way. She had long ago learned to pull her fear and emotions in, and pack those feelings away deep inside, unseen and untouched. She clutched her tattered Raggedy Ann doll to her chest and closed her eyes against his latest tirade.

      ". . . little Sally Ann, sittin’ in the sand, cry Sally cry, stick yer finger in yer eye . . . She wondered what Georgie had done to anger him. She knew her brother was the main target this time. Their father only called Georgie Sally Ann," not the girls.

      ". . . you kids are killin’ yer mother! She could feel the hate in his voice. It slammed into her soul like the ax on the chicken’s neck that one afternoon in the backyard. She’s workin’ ‘cause you kids take everything! She knew the real reason her mother had to work. It was because he missed so many days at the factory that the other workers took bets on whether or not he’d show up . . . an’ when she’s dead I’m puttin’ the bunch a ya inta a home!" His voice grew louder and louder as he raged on. She knew the neighbors could hear. She could tell by the way they looked at her.

      She peeked out from her safe place. He was holding Georgie’s best softball menacingly over his head. Her sisters were cowering near the open door, Georgie bearing the brunt of the rampage. ". . . an’ if I hear a single sound outta you kids I’m gonna git my belt an’ tan yer hides!" He was going upstairs to sleep off the six-pack he had for lunch. She was glad. The house would be safe for a while.

      As soon as they could, she knew the others would escape to their safe places. Her brother would go down the hill to play ball, June would go to their Grandmother’s, and Jenny would run to the next street over, to her friend Lisa’s house.

      He probably wouldn’t give Georgie back his softball. She knew where he hid their favorite things. She would get it back when he left. She once rescued her doll Annie from that small, damp space going down the cellar stairs.

      She had a dim memory of being shoved into that dark place in the wall where the bricks had fallen down. She was crying. Her father was laughing as he pushed her into the tight crawl

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