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“Gorak!” Barked Team Leader soundlessly. “If you don't comply, you'll be sent back and someone else will finish this Observation!” “Yes, Your Most Excellent Expediency,” Gorak stammered in response. “I … Continue reading Operation: Investigation – Exo-three by Duane L. Herrmann

Tuesday was Grandma Day - every Tuesday - No Exceptions - unless Grandma had something better to do - which was at least twice a month. I never had anything … Continue reading The Kiss of the Meatball by Lorraine Caramanna

Assemble ingredients: South-Central PA Grandma in flowered apron, a farmer’s kitchen with red linoleum and knotty pine cabinets, a radio broadcasting farm market reports in the next room, Pyrex dishes, … Continue reading Baking a Shoo Fly Pie in Grandma’s 50s Kitchen by Diane Kendall Stevens

Take one traumatized toddler.Let her grow physically but not emotionally.Take one farm boy who expects to marry a wife as competent as his mother who fed and clothed her family … Continue reading Recipe for Disastrous Family Life by Duane L. Herrmann

I turned my stubbornness trait around and called it tenacity. I turned my inability to ask questions around and called it curiosity. And, I learned to cook, because I am … Continue reading Rice pudding taught me how to cook and how to live by Kathy Barlow

And one by one they found themselves at the end of the laden tablewhere there was breadmade with a hint of cardamomand a trace of sugar.Just enough to bring them … Continue reading Untitled by Judith L. Parsley