Oh to be here.
Half of a soft-boiled egg left, with two toast triangles to dip in the yolk when no one is looking. Funny. Master of one’s home for a long time, but still expecting someone to say something. Mother always jumping down one’s throat over it, but the only way to soften up the charred toast cook made back then. Better now, but a fork held over a burner on the range back then, and barely gnawable.
My new short fiction piece published on my Substack. Please click through the link below if you’d like to read the rest of it
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1938-and-seven-thirty
Below: In the Nursery School, a student directs the mid-morning lunch. At ten o’clock each child has cod liver oil and orange juice. Page 8 of a pamphlet published in January, 1938 by the Home Economics Department of Alabama College (Now the University of Montevallo), Montevallo, Alabama. University of Montevallo, Oliver Cromwell Carmichael Library. Cc0 License 3.0.
