LJ Idol: Week 2 - Living Rent-Free In Your Head

[messygorgeous]

"Why do we call you Black-Headed Grandma? Your hair is all grey!"

Ettis May smiled down at her great granddaughter, sitting beside her on the polka dot chenille couch. The preschooler had been happily coloring beside her while her parents, Ettis' grandson and his wife, sipped sweet tea and chatted about christenings and garden cucumbers and Cousin

Comments

[pixiebelle]

This was beautiful and written so well, I could feel the pain in Ettis’s words toward the end. Very well done.

[sweeny_todd]

a beautiful blend of sad and happy. loved all the generations as well!

[roina_arwen]

Such a sweet story!

[rayaso]

This was such a wonderful, sweet story. I loved it! Your description of Black-Headed Grandma's voice made me wish I could hear it.

[karmasoup]

I love this. Such a different time, in some respects. You always do such a great job of making the South my parents knew, the falling down past I grew up only touring through - so palpable.