The Accidental Adventures of Doreen Sizemore by Serena B. Miller

Author:Serena B. Miller [Miller, Serena B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-940283-21-0
Publisher: L. J. Emory Publishing

Murder At The Mystery Mansion

The Doreen Sizemore Adventures Book 5

I’ve seen a lot of things in my life I wish I hadn’t.

My name is Doreen Sizemore and I’m seventy-two years old. Take my word for it. If you ever get to be my age you’ll see things you’ll wish you never saw neither. Things that make you want to just wash your eyes out with lye soap. Most of them things happened to me while I was trying to help out my kinfolk.

Being tender-hearted can get a body in a world of trouble.

I live in a little bitty river town called South Shore, Kentucky. It might just be a blip on the map to some people but it is paradise to me. I especially love my little town after going away on some of them trips where I was a’trying to help somebody out and got my fool self scared half to death stumbling over dead bodies.

Like I always say, nothing good ever comes from traveling. Bad things happen when I’m far away from home.

I was born and raised in Kentucky and proud of it. Up until the past couple years, the furthest I ever traveled was over the bridge to Portsmouth, Ohio where I had a job working at Selby Shoe Factory. I started in sewing shoes right after my graduation from Greenup High School. That’s what us girls used to do around here. If you didn’t get married and start having babies, you got a job at Selby’s.

If you were fast at piecework--and I was--you could make a pretty decent wage. I used my pay check to help out Mama and Daddy with groceries and for things like buying football cleats for my little brother who weren’t all that little in high school and had to have them cleats special ordered. Back then, I’d also buy a little lipstick and rouge from time to time.

My life in this river town has been a good one. At least for the most part it has been. The people tend to be pretty decent. I’m kin to some, friends with others, and I can tolerate the rest. We got us a high rate of unemployment just like everywhere else in the country right now, but the difference between us and the rest of the country is that we’ve been in a recession for so long we hardly notice it. We’re good at rolling with the punches here in Appalachia. We have to be.

I remember seeing pictures awhile back in some magazine of a little kid with a dirty face a’playin’ in the dirt. Underneath it they was asking for funds to help poor little Appalachian children. Them pictures were a puzzle to me. That child just looked like about half the other kids running around town needing a good face-washing before dinner. I couldn’t see what the fuss was about, but then maybe they know something I don’t.

Now where was I?

Oh yes.

People in South Shore, Kentucky know how to roll with the punches and help out a neighbor.

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