Oh to be here.

Thunderclouds starting to roll in. The sun still blazing away, at least if you don’t look towards the horizon.

My new short fiction piece with the rest at the link if you’d like to read it. Thanks! https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2015-and-ten-in-the

Oh to be here.

New Mexico and cattle lowing in the dark as far as the ear can hear or the eye can see. Being a ranch wife fascinating if you grew up somewhere else, with pine cones that bounce off your head while you wait for the school bus or ride your bike to the library.

my new short fiction piece at the link if you’d like to read the rest

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1940-and-ten-in-the

Boston Public Library Collections.

Part of my story is wrapped around a Coast Guard officer who brought live lobsters to potlucks at my mother’s church here in Boston. Other bits of it have imagery I remember from a few decades back when I had a chef friend who had grown up on his mother’s cattle ranch in East Texas.

Oh to be here.

Back to Illinois eventually, but hopefully not until it is too late to be snowed in. No way to know which day to get the tickets for. Two ex-husbands paying alimony. At least one looking to be heading off to prison soon, his alimony check-writing days going with him.

my new short fiction piece published to my Substack. Please click through the link to read the rest. The image is from a 1960 catalogue of jalousie windows put out by a Miami Florida company that made them.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1960-and-early-october

Oh to be here.

A morning spent being the storytime reading lady in the pink armchair in the Children’s Room at the library. The best part of being a librarian, really. A chair piled with pillows instead of the desk kind. An interested audience in hot pink leggings and Superman sweatshirts, some of them holding up baby brothers and sisters so they can see the pictures, too.

my new short fiction piece with the rest of it at the link-

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1980-and-a-typical

Oh to be here.

Roses and some other kinds of flowers the garden center man said were easy to grow. Their yellow and orange flowers like midget suns, but the thing starting to take over like kudzu of the west, with one fence hopped over and the next one soon.

My new short fiction piece- the rest is at this link-

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2012-and-one-oclock

Green velvet boot-tights designed by Donna Karan for Anne Klein. Early 1980s. American. Image source: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Photographed by a staff photographer at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Cc0 Licence 1.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boot_tights,_Donna_Karan_for_Anne_Klein,_early_1980s_03.jpg