Steal Me Away
“She had finished her housebound chores and she itched to get the garden weeded so she could take the afternoon for herself. Hopefully she could even escape the gimlet eye of her older sister Collette and swim naked in the clear fresh waters of Duck Creek. Fancy frowned as she waited for Coll to don her cape. Her sister was turning into a snippy stick-in-the-mud.
Postponing her share of the washing and cooking, Coll did little but brood about the death of her husband, lost on a bloody field in G...eorgia during the Civil War.
“Well, phooey,” Fancy complained to Coll as she grabbed a straw basket near the front door. “If you’re going to dawdle all day, I’ll go ahead by myself.”
“I’m coming, Fancy! Don’t be so all fired ready to work.”
Fancy sighed, then headed outside where the winter rains had nourished an entire hillside covered in bluebonnets. She stepped onto the porch of their ranch house, swinging her basket and humming. She’d planned ahead for her secret swim by defying propriety and wearing only a thin shift under her calico day gown.MoreLess
Postponing her share of the washing and cooking, Coll did little but brood about the death of her husband, lost on a bloody field in G...eorgia during the Civil War.
“Well, phooey,” Fancy complained to Coll as she grabbed a straw basket near the front door. “If you’re going to dawdle all day, I’ll go ahead by myself.”
“I’m coming, Fancy! Don’t be so all fired ready to work.”
Fancy sighed, then headed outside where the winter rains had nourished an entire hillside covered in bluebonnets. She stepped onto the porch of their ranch house, swinging her basket and humming. She’d planned ahead for her secret swim by defying propriety and wearing only a thin shift under her calico day gown.MoreLess
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