After a holiday wrought with tragedy, Kathy finds herself desperate, crippled, and depressed with only her old companion, Strudel, to see her through.
Expounding on the original short story, Hard Candy with Strudel and Tea. After a holiday wrought with tragedy, Kathy finds herself desperate, crippled and depressed with only her old companion, Strudel, to see her through. Until...
Excerpt
Dear December
I found you - a thin shawl upon nature’s shoulders
resting on the final page of my Gregorian calendar.
Celebrations in red,
Christmas and Kwanza and the tail end of Hanukah.
Reminding me in stark black letters of bombings and declarations of war.
Hitler, Mussolini, and Japan…
