David Couts
ASIN: B00EVAOLJG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 173
Excerpt:The BIG Saturday arrived. I had deftly arranged to be “out” driving the Jeep and be gone several hours without arousing parental or sisterly suspicions. A single suspicion from either source could prove fatal to the aspirations I had in mind for the daylight hours I planned to commandeer that Saturday. Somewhere in the dim recesses of my wrinkled brain tissues there was a mental signal going off about a prior commitment (Audrey) for the evening hours.Evening was a long way off. Right now I was turning around in Hootsie’s driveway. I needed to get Hootsie into the Jeep before Aunt Francis saw that Reed and Tom were hiding in the back. She always said it made her nervous to know we were all going to ride somewhere together and be somewhere together at the same time. To save her nerves, I usually picked Hootsie up before I swerved by to scoop up Reed and Tom; but this time that ...