Patella Euphella Sackworth, Reporter-at-Large for the Balona Courier  |
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Well, you are probably recovering from too much food and drink, what with New Year being just around the corner behind us. I am not feeling my usual perky self, since I've got this sore on my neck that won't heal up and I feel pretty weak all the time, too. But my publisher, famous Ms. Verga Bless who I see every Tuesday and Saturday night for (not free!) financial counseling, she tells me to strive on, eat good food that's rich in iron, and to always pay my publisher bills. Those bills do seem to get bigger every week. None of my poems printed up yet. Anyway, Tery Ordway's story is selling big time. It's Nobody's Fault, the story about Mr. Junior Kuhl's adventures in the big San Francisco earthquake just about exactly a hundred years ago, a story which in the book he tells to my little friend Tery. Ms. Verga Bless mentioned that she wishes she had published Tery's book, since Ms. Bless is pretty sharp on the money side. Tery herself is a real smart kid. Even Joey Kuhl's book, the one in which he comes off as a hero, sort of, is being read by a bunch of guys. Mr. Don Keyshot says the book Community Spirits will make a good after-Christmas gift and that just because it's a ghost story doesn't mean you couldn't read it and get a nice chill from it in January. Mr. Keyshot says people still read "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens even in the summer time. And that's a ghost story about winter and snow and roast goose (which, if I had an appetite, I could get worked up about). You can buy books right on this Web site with a check or a credit card. Unfortunately, my checking account balance is sort of low, so I'm using the free Balona Library which is now part of my rich friend Claire's cybercafe on Front Street. Ms. Verga Bless is sort of irritated that I keep mentioning her, since she is a shy person. But I can't help it since she is so influential, telling me stories (that I can't remember) every Tuesday and Saturday night in her soft, sweet voice. Since I'm not so perky you could e-mail me. Patella's E-Mail |