On Halloween, Granny makes celery casserole while we play in the old Oviedo celery fields. We play with the ghost children as the cheese melts and the milk softens the stalks. Under the moon, Papa fiddles while Granny flatfoots on the table to make the ghost children happy.
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Stonewall
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Henry Edwards, Pensacola Lighthouse, July 1 2040, Southern Redoubt
I had a sticky moment with Stonewall Jackson on the balcony.
He knew my place in his world. “You eat field peas, boy.” (Field peas were for slaves.)
Fear shook me though he was only a ghost.
Then he was gone.
Ghosts
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2040, July 4, Pensacola Lighthouse, Southern Redoubt
Confederate ghosts remain sticky around the balcony outside the Fresnel lens where they beg me to turn off the light, believing there were Union soldiers across the bay who will fire at us. I don’t tell Henry lest he believe me incompetent.
Florida
17 Monday Oct 2022
On Halloween, Granny makes celery casserole while we play in the woods, the old Oviedo celery fields. We play with the ghost children as the cheese melts and the milk softens the stalks. Under the moon, Papa fiddles while Granny dances on a door to make the ghost children happy.
Jakayla
15 Saturday Oct 2022
Jakayla cried when the white grandparents removed the cross where the baby’s body was found. Jakayla used to lay flowers there on her way home from school.
Juniper said the white mother murdered her, then hid her body.
Jakayla said she could have babysat, could have made the baby happy.
Hello, Inktober. 1st story: Breath
02 Sunday Oct 2022
It wasn’t the most unbelievable thing that her mattress became a raft, floating her out to sea during the hurricane. What was unbelievable was the sound of the wind, calling her name in the hoarse final breath of her father.
Notes: October— a time to celebrate and practice writing bite-size! Every day in observing Inktober, I write a 50-word fiction with a scary/spooky spin. I believe Inktober may have started as a drawing challenge and I have found great visual prompts from artists on sites such as DeviantArt. Sometimes I don’t use word prompts. Today’s fiction nugget is something that occurred to me, then I found this great image on flickr.
Have a great Sunday.—Margaret
PS I like writing in a small spiral notebook like this so I can visualize the size of the story as I write. This is a Mead Cambridge 6×4, 70 sheet. I prefer notebooks that are not too precious. This is a quality workhorse in that it aids being held in the hand w/its sturdy cardboard back. I can also easily tuck it into a purse. Tools are important. Not absolutely critical of course but anything I can do to help myself, I’ll do it. ❤
Tree
19 Sunday Apr 2020
He took your lives, Colette and Barbara from Iowa, a place smelling of milkfat and hay, where your Mama was looking for you, and he buried you in a shallow grave in Port St. Lucie. Nightly a priest performs an exorcism of the Devil Tree where your souls haunt Florida.