“All of us were drunk on fun. A celebration of Kool-Aid puddle and little-kid noise, cake, cakey fingers, singing and yucky yucks” Life And LivingFiction WritingWomen S Strength Book:Iola O Source: Iola O
“We played harmless pranks on each other in high school. Stole liquor one time, got drunk and puked it up. Talked about sex—how it stays hard . . . what you do . . . don’t do . . . dirty names for the girl part.” RomanceLife And LivingLearning From Mistakes Book:Iola O Source: Iola O
“It was amazing how I was able to ignore all his cursing, but he knew airplanes. He showed me how to line up straight on the obscene-curse-word runway and how to use the curse-word throttle and rudder to control the blasphemous-curse-word-plane, how to taxi down the smutty-curse-word runway and, when I got up to top speed, how to add up-elevator and how to maintain a simple-curse-word gradual ascent.” WarRomanceFiction Novel Book:Iola O Source: Iola O
“I didn’t say Atwater gave me old dresses with rips, and seams coming apart, and leftovers to eat—like it was a tip for doing a real good job for little pay.” Life LessonsLearningFiction Novel Book:Iola O Source: Iola O
“Then something in me heard the stars, the pawpaws, trilliums, the whippoorwills, crawdads swimming in the creeks and cousin Alma all calling. Like the air had shimmered them.” WarDiscoveryLove StoryFiction Novel Book:Iola O Source: Iola O