by Jimmela
Loved it. Great feel for writing about the Depression. My only criticism is about mechanics: punctuation errors and too much usage of "hands" in the sex scene. The sex scene got a little confusing. But I finished reading the story, and I'm glad. Well done!
As a writer/photographer and avid admirer of pictorial studies of the depression by shooters like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, my thanks for this tiny gem of a story.
Zippo
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Dirk, you've done a terrific job, in just 2 pages, of engaging your readers and vividly illustrating the conditions families struggled through in the Dust Bowl. It was a difficult time for many families, but in this story, there is happiness, and at the very end, a foretelling of perhaps even more happiness. Louise's farm is suffering, and I hope she and her kids (with Jeremiah's help?) can achieve a better life. Very nicely done!