A Season of Fire and Ice by Lloyd Zimpel

Author:Lloyd Zimpel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 2006-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

JULY 5. As I finish up yesterday’s chronicle in the heat of this morning, Ma comes to my desk holding the two cylinders of fireworks found in my vest; they are bigger around than my thumb and with their hen scratch printing look very foreign in her hand.

What is your purpose in saving these? she says.

I will ask you a question too, say I. What is your purpose in poking through my pockets?

She does not answer that, but says, These look like something a person would use at a shivaree. She sets them at my hand and goes to leave.

Wait, wait, say I. What was the gossip over those watermelons, then? About Beidermann and the Widow, was it? Tying the knot, are they?

Women’s gossip, she says. I know you are not one to believe women’s gossip. Going out the door she says over her shoulder, But save those silly fireworks of yours, all the same.

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