Flash Frog

As planned, we stopped for sandwiches in St. Louis on the way to Chicago. We left early enough to get there before noon but by the time we parked, the line for the deli was already wrapped around outside. “You gotta see these things,”…

“You distinguish yourself by not doing what others do.” ~ Alan Dundes, American Folklorist My cousins and I pinch our noses, squealing from the absent parts of the pig not on Baabaa’s cutting board. Whenever she cooks pig’s feet soup, we dare one another to…

She wants to go back up to the room, like the other families hours ago, but her father’s holding court at the poolside bar and beckoning a group of men in yellow oilskins, dragging their boat ashore, humping their catch onto the sand. Now…