Beltane Charity Anthology #8Sunday #CharitySunday #MFRWHooks #RainbowSnippets #SnipSun

 

I am sharing this post with multiple blog hops and hope the hosts will indulge me when they understand its purpose. 

The weird and wonderful souls who brought the Bog Hag anthology to life are collecting stories for another charity anthology to benefit Quill Cottage Wildlife. Authors, this is your chance to simultaneously share your words and contribute to a worthy cause. Submissions are open until March 28. Please contact Nicole and Sarah at AuthorTubeAnthology@gmail.com for more details.

If you can and would like to, please contribute to purchasing the stunning cover depicted above for the Beltane anthology. 

https://ko-fi.com/authortubeanthology

I intend to donate a dollar for every comment received on this post. Unless I receive, like, a thousand comments. I won't be able to donate that much.

Let's be real. I won't receive a thousand comments. I'm shocked if I receive more than five comments on any post. 

Here is Super Anna back in 2010 when I adopted her.

Here are a few sentences from my story, which is dedicated to a four-legged furry family member who lost her battle with kidney failure on January 27. We didn't know she was sick until she went into sudden decline. Cats often hide the fact that they are feeling poorly until they can't anymore.

The Beltane Laundress

by

C. L. Hart

The rain pounded down on a father and son walking through the tiny town of Honeycomb Grove, Colorado.

“It will be a good Mayday celebration this year, Pop,” said the lanky teenage boy. Tufts of gamboge-golden hair stuck out from his dark orchid baseball cap.

The boy’s similarly built father had graying oxide-red hair and wore a faded red baseball cap. The weary expression on his face and the look of hopelessness in sad eyes the color of a John Deere tractor matched glum words spoken with a thick German accent.

Ornery Owl's Note

I actually did not end up sharing this post with Charity Sunday, Rainbow Sunday, Snippet Sunday, or Weekend Writing Warriors, as my son and I were over at the hospital and then the hospice center since Friday. I had pre-scheduled this post earlier in the week. 

My mother didn't answer the phone after 3 tries on Thursday nights, so I had her neighbor check on her. When she got no response, she called 911. The firefighters found an open side window over the stairwell, and one of them dropped in with a flexible ladder and then let the others in. 

They found Mom conscious but unresponsive on the floor. She was transported to the hospital, where they found she'd had a massive stroke in the occipital lobe. We were also shocked to learn that she was in end-stage colon cancer. None of us knew. She may not have known for sure, but we think she suspected. We kept trying to convince her to go in for GI symptoms, but she wouldn't do it.

She died at 8:45 this morning. My son and I got the call from my brother, who had stayed at the hospice center while we went home to change and for me to restock on my medications. He said she waited until he went into the bathroom to make the shift to the other side. 

She was 85 years old.

I'm now a 60-year-old orphan. 

So, I didn't end up sharing with most of the blog hops. But please visit them anyway because they are cool.

http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com

https://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets

https://www.facebook.com/groups/401643826588474

http://wewriwa.blogspot.com

For those interested, here's information on the Bog Hag anthology.

https://amzn.to/4h9fQUD