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Submitted to Contest #59
I’ve always had difficulty waking up after a long night’s sleep. My father used to try to get me up in the morning by telling me that I was Sleeping Beauty without the beauty or that I could be Sleepy, the dwarf from Snow White if I were a little taller. He thought he was funny; I wasn’t amused. I lay there, eyes closed as I gradually became aware of my surroundings. Somewhere in this normally slow process, I realized that it was pitch black. My room was never pitch black, what with my alarm clock (yes, I’m old school) and my cell phone cha...
I was beginning to think that my GPS was screwed up. I didn’t remember the trip over the back roads to Mendonburg taking so long. Growing up, we made the trip every month, all five of us kids packed into the Ford station wagon, visiting my grandparents’ farm. Well, to be honest, it was a big house on the edge of a small town with a couple of “barns” that held a couple dozen chickens and eight cows, tops. There was a pasture that climbed the hill in back of the barn up to a muddy little pond that once had been stocked with bullheads, but even...
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