Water Moccasins and Stolen Peppermints

A Collection of Sad, Funny and Outrageous Short Stories About Growing up in the South

This is a collection of twenty-nine short stories and is completely true and hardly exaggerates events as written, as fantastic as that may sound. As a kid living so far out in the country that the sun didn't rise until ten AM, I remember reading Mark Twain’s Life on the River and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and thinking of those stories as a documentary account of my life. I didn’t have a slave or float down the Mississippi on a raft, but I grew up with eight surviving siblings and got into more mischief than anyone would believe. Momma whipped my back and legs with a peach tree or willow switch nearly every single day and I most certainly deserved more whippings than I got. So, I was very adept at dancing the Peachtree “two step,” My momma saw to it that I stayed in practice.