Day: November 22, 2024
The Big Carrot (A Minnesota Short Story – 1958) Reedited 3-2009 (In English and Spanish)
[186 Cayuga St., St. Paul, Minnesota: 1958] Ernest Brandt, who was my mother’s boyfriend for some forty-years, found out my secret when I was eleven years old, back in the summer of ’58, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He had about half acre of land in the city, and a big garden and he gave me