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Pencil, We Write

Pencil, We Write FICTION Regina Villiers PENCIL, WE WRITE TODAY, and it's special. It's special because it's the first day of spring, and we've lived to have another year. Birds know it, and they sing about it. Doves are sitting on the light line. Soon, redbud leaves will be round, fat, and green. But this day is special another way, Pencil. The Stopgap lady took something we wrote and showed it to the nice editor who runs the paper in town. The paper is the Bern County News, and the editor is Mrs. June Butler. She wants us to write the news from here on Cherry Tree Ridge for the paper. Now you may think news never happens here on Cherry Tree Ridge. You are wrong. Things may not happen here like Katie Couric talks about on TV, but life happens here. All you have to do to see it is to open your eyes. happens. But I do. It's true I don't get out much, and I don't have many visitors. I am going on ninety years old, and most of my folks and And you may think old Florence Willis doesn't know what friends are already walking the streets http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Pencil, We Write

Villiers, Regina.
Appalachian Review , Volume 28 (2) – Jan 8, 2000
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FICTION Regina Villiers PENCIL, WE WRITE TODAY, and it's special. It's special because it's the first day of spring, and we've lived to have another year. Birds know it, and they sing about it. Doves are sitting on the light line. Soon, redbud leaves will be round, fat, and green. But this day is special another way, Pencil. The Stopgap lady took something we wrote and showed it to the nice editor who runs the paper in town. The paper is the Bern County News, and the editor is Mrs. June Butler. She wants us to write the news from here on Cherry Tree Ridge for the paper. Now you may think news never happens here on Cherry Tree Ridge. You are wrong. Things may not happen here like Katie Couric talks about on TV, but life happens here. All you have to do to see it is to open your eyes. happens. But I do. It's true I don't get out much, and I don't have many visitors. I am going on ninety years old, and most of my folks and And you may think old Florence Willis doesn't know what friends are already walking the streets

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Published: Jan 8, 2000

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