Picket Fence Promises
There is an old saying that a person's past will eventually catch up to them. Mine was a bit slow because it didn't find me until I was forty-five years old. When it did, it didn't tiptoe up and give me a discreet tap on the shoulder, either. A gentle, Remember me? Of course not. My past rolled down Prichett's Main Street in broad daylight. In a black stretch limo.It was a good thing that my two best friends, Elise Penny and Annie Carpenter, were with me or I probably would have hijacked the next pickup truck lumbering down the street and ended up somewhere in Canada.
Annie, who'd been catching snowflakes on her tongue, grabbed my hand and held on. Annie may be twenty years younger than me but what she lacks in age she makes up for in wisdom. She's the kind of person who always seems to have one ear tilted toward the sky, as if she's expecting at any moment God is going to whisper something in it. And I'm convinced that He does on a regular basis.
I tried to work up enough saliva so that I could talk, but my mouth had gone as dry as the fields in the middle of July. If you live in Prichett long enough you begin to think in farm metaphors. It started hap ... read full excerpt from Picket Fence Promises ebook
