The Empty Cupboard (page 7)

BizzyBee

Syl,

Between you and Coco there is at least one good novel percolating. All you two need is a good editor...........

Have either of you ever submitted anything to magazines that publish short stories?

compound complex

Thanks Bizzy:

Please see your mail box.

!

CC

snowbird

I haven't submitted anything, Bizzy.

I have, however, written letters to local newspapers and have always received favorable reviews.

Thanks.

CoCo, I love you.

Syl

compound complex

I love you, too, Sylvia!

Guess we need to collaborate!

CoCo

snowbird

LOL.

Your people are Jeb and Jinx and the Bottoms.

Ruthann, Betty, and the Vincents.

My people are Mama Rosie (the manor lady), Miss Hon Edith (the kind lady), Jimmie (the boy), and Jack (the dog).

I'm a-thinkin.'

Syl

compound complex

How I envied the rich whose homes I helped Mom clean when I was a child.

Certainly, the yellow 1953 Buick Skylark and the slightly newer, silver Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham reposing aristocratically upon the bricked drive garnered admiring glances from a boy still on two wheels. Likewise, the clean lines, impeccable finish and understated elegance of the country estate, what with its luxuriant, manicured grounds, filled my heart with a vicarious sense of belonging unknown to one sparingly nurtured on the other side of the tracks.

However appealing the trappings of the well-to-do, it was not the extraneous luxuries that I longed to possess. It was the cupboards, the walk-in pantries, the refrigerators and freezers filled to an excess that this poor and lean boy wanted to plunge into, not being compelled to exit till his hunger was once and for all sated, his belly truly full. Our household budget allowed a mere ten dollars a week for groceries for a family of five; I was, understandably, always ravenously hungry.

Years later, the larder is modestly filled with sufficient to get me by, yet when I go into the home of a friend with a food budget more ample than my own, my eyes stray to the cupboards, the walk-in pantry ...

talesin

... and takes me back to that earlier time, with a sense of nostalgia that I would never have imagined could be possible.

Awaiting the continuation ....

(I hadn't read this thread before, most excellent)

t

compound complex

Thanks, dear Talesin!

I hadn't actually thought of a continuation, but last evening's musings over the state of my own pantry got me hunting up this thread. Sent latest post out via e-mail and have already received an invitation to lunch!

Love,

CoCo qui mange tellement bien

nancy drew

he checked the cupboard one more time

to see what goodies he could find

but oh alas

the time had passed

and all the cookies had been mined

snowbird

Adumbrate, denouement, and sine qua non

Sylvia

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