Library Fire

We had a little fire down at the library where I volunteer. It wasn't a big thing just a toaster oven in the break room that wasn't cleaned properly. Boy did I catch it down at the barbershop this morning. Jasper Sealgood came up with that old joke I heard when I was in the third grade: The Harper Library burned last night. Both books were destroyed. And one hadn't even been colored in yet. Mayfield Simmerfield said he hope we saved The Inferno. Mayfield went off to college for a year. Bennie Moreloft offered to donate all his books if it would help. I told him no thanks, he could keep his Playboy magazines. Milford Wattstoe wanted to know if he would still have to pay the late fee on the book he checked out last April. I told him he would and he said he would return it as soon as he came up with enough money to pay the fee. Anyway, we have a pretty good little library for a small town. We just don't have a pretty good group of readers.

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

Coming soon: More Tales of Harper (an ebook on Amazon)