Stories tagged “picnic”

  • La Primavera

    Valentine’s Day was unseasonably warm. We spread a picnic blanket I’d borrowed from my boss because I didn’t own one, and my date and I unwrapped the sandwiches we’d made. The sun shone on our faces. In this town it’s hard...

    • Author: uselessness
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Company for Breakfast

    The island was slightly larger than it looked from the shore, and consisted of a beach around a small copse of trees. In the middle of the trees was a picnic table, and someone had laid out a breakfast consisting of assorted pastries and a pitcher of o...

  • Into the Blue Again

    “So what happens now?” I asked, after we’d finished with breakfast and put everything away. “Well, I could keep you here forever,” Jackie admitted. “It would be nice to have someone there whenever I daydreamed…R...

  • Greasy Fingerprints

    Franny hovered over her antique Griswold #8 Cast Iron Deep Chicken Fryer, poking at the golden crisping thighs. Franny was looking forward to this years Bone Gap community picnic cooking contest. The theme was Fast Food. She was entering her version of...