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100 Word Story: At the Ball Game
It was hot at the ball game, so hot that she had to take the balled up Kleenex out of her jeans pocket to wipe the sweat off her face. Not once, dozens of times. She held her arms perfectly still, not touching anything or anyone, so if there was a breeze, the damp hair on her arms would fan her. But no breeze came.
Four rows down, a woman in a pink plush hoodie, zipped up and tied under her chin, sat eating popcorn, one kernel at a time, licking her fingers after each. This went on for hours.
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Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
mutually shared experience, yet each attending, experienced it in their own unique way
Reading that account made me want to take all my clothes off and find a shower or at least a bucket of cool water.
Yeah. We’re having a heat wave – I want to get the sprinkler out.
Well you should! Would the dogs enjoy it… I bet they would 🙂