Walk It Off

Walk It Off was recently included in Tulip Tree Publishing’s anthology; Stories That Need to be Told 2022.

This is a tale about a lifetime of missteps, mishaps, and misbehavior, and the cure for the broken bones that resulted.

My parents raised four boys, two girls, three dogs, two cats, six gerbils, a turtle and a bat. Ours was a household filled with love, companionship and mortal danger. If we survived the dog bites, snakebites and kid bites, we still had to contend with smallpox, measles, and mumps – all of which could kill you or seriously hamper your social life. By necessity my mother was adept at the mending of cuts, burns, bee stings, botulism, plague and constipation.

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Posted by on Dec 2, 2022 in Memoir and Fiction, The Last Drop | Comments Off on Walk It Off