Dwarf Star

The woman I met at the reunion that I promised to tell you about is a TV star. Dorothy knew her as a young girl (a second cousin) and said she always was the dramatic type. She once made her way down to the front during a high school assembly and called out several of her fellow students who may or may not have been spreading rumors about her. Dorothy thinks she made the whole thing up just for the attention.

Anyway she appears on that cable TV soap opera Tomorrow Will Be Better, Maybe. She plays the mother of a young woman who has moved to New York to make it big on the stage. Her mother lives back home in South Carolina but still has a big impact on the ways of her daughter. The scene flashes back and forth between the big city and the small southern town. I know all this because Dorothy was curious and watched for a while. She claims she gave it up because things moved too slowly, even when the action was in New York.

I told Dorothy I didn't know she had a relative who was a star. Dorothy said if she was a star it was a dwarf star. Of course, I had to run to the library to look that one up and there is such a thing. They call it a white star, it's there all right but it don't shine too bright. I reckon that's what she is.

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle