Little Girl Learning

by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. It was one of the freakiest things that ever happened in our neck of the woods and only many years later were we able to piece the catastrophe together. I’m still not sure I have the whole story, but here it is as best I...

Greetings to the Graduates

by Freida Marie Crump Dear Graduate, Greetings from Poosey. As you sit in your gown anxiously waiting for the graduation ceremony to creep to its long, hot conclusion, you might be puzzled by some of the phrases that’ll no doubt hear spouted on the last evening of...

Fun in the Dark

by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. Poosey is the electrical version of the canary in the mineshaft. If there’s a lightning storm within a hundred miles we’ll be the place that loses its electricity. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky last week when about 8...

We Get What We Deserve

by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. No one could ever quite figure out the Skinner sisters. Both in their 90s, they’d been raised in the same house, both married, then after 50-plus years both were widowed within months of each other so they moved into a big...

Let’s Pretend

by Freida Marie Crump Greetings from Poosey. Let’s just pretend…just for a minute, okay? Let’s pretend that I’ve just spent $10 or $15 or $50 for my seat tonight. Let’s pretend that I’m sitting in the row behind you, then you decide to hold your phone camera up in...