I've got a new story up at Every Day Fiction, which is a new online magazine with a new flash story added every morning. I've got another story coming up there next month, too. :)
James, Jesse... close enough. And you never invited me to play mastermind; afraid you'd lose? Anyway, um, should I be asking some Serious Questions about the warehouse at the end of Sawmill?
What I remembered most about that thing was that, unlike all the other street signs, it was written as "Sawmill.../...Road"; no other signs in town had ellipses. I even remember talking about the phenomenon with my own peer group (Amanda, Jesse, Matt when he wasn't busy with Laura). Driving around as an adult now, I see almost every sign has ellipses; I don't know if we were just wrong, or if the signs have been replaced since then.
Oh; I remember a huge pile of sawdust that materialized back there one fall day--to my 7-year-old eyes, it was easily the size of a swimming pool. I recall it very clearly, since the next day at school--first grade--I described (on the margins of an unrelated work sheet) a container as being 10'x8'x5', envisioning that sawdust pile sitting inside a huge box and guessing at measurements for the sides. I remember being very proud of figuring out how to talk about the volume of the sawdust, since my classmates were still doing basic addition and here I was multiplying numbers.
I remember thinking the ellipses were important too, but now that I think about it, I think the signs were all in the slow process of being replaced. Now they're all replaced and they all have ellipses.
We played Mastermind at Laura's, actually. Laura and Debbie were FIENDS about the game. I was never any good.
I am awed at your sawdust-measuring abilities. Seriously. After having student-taught first graders, I guarantee you that a first grader who can even conceptualize volume is really, really unusual.
What I remembered most about that thing was that, unlike all the other street signs, it was written as "Sawmill.../...Road"; no other signs in town had ellipses. I even remember talking about the phenomenon with my own peer group (Amanda, Jesse, Matt when he wasn't busy with Laura). Driving around as an adult now, I see almost every sign has ellipses; I don't know if we were just wrong, or if the signs have been replaced since then.
Oh; I remember a huge pile of sawdust that materialized back there one fall day--to my 7-year-old eyes, it was easily the size of a swimming pool. I recall it very clearly, since the next day at school--first grade--I described (on the margins of an unrelated work sheet) a container as being 10'x8'x5', envisioning that sawdust pile sitting inside a huge box and guessing at measurements for the sides. I remember being very proud of figuring out how to talk about the volume of the sawdust, since my classmates were still doing basic addition and here I was multiplying numbers.
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I remember thinking the ellipses were important too, but now that I think about it, I think the signs were all in the slow process of being replaced. Now they're all replaced and they all have ellipses.
We played Mastermind at Laura's, actually. Laura and Debbie were FIENDS about the game. I was never any good.
I am awed at your sawdust-measuring abilities. Seriously. After having student-taught first graders, I guarantee you that a first grader who can even conceptualize volume is really, really unusual.
I've got another story up at EDF as of Monday, incidentally, at http://www.everydayfiction.com/bad-luck-%e2%80%a2-by-katherine-shaw/
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