September 7: Flash Fiction Challenge « Carrot Ranch Communications

Join me this week in more “Travels with Charli.” Reading her account of the sad goodbye to Montana, the trek south, and the landing on the Martian landscape of St. George, Utah leaves me pondering my mother’s feelings upon leaving Minnesota (the land of 10,000 lakes) for Phoenix Arizona (the Valley of the Sun) in July 1961. Wanderers we are…

Over yonder, where the cliffs diminish and pale in the slanting sun, is where we landed. How we left earth is a mystery. Perhaps it was a moonbeam we followed, thinking it to be a paved road …

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