The Frugals

[Jay Holmes]

My parents couldn't afford vitamins so my mother would put a dirty cheerio in our mouth every morning and say a prayer for us. We never went to church, my mother just adopted the things she liked from all religions. They got the house for a steal because it was supposedly haunted and there were things that just couldn't be explained like no matter what you did the house wouldn't get above 68 degrees. None of my friends would come over to play much less spend the night and it didn't help when my father bought that Hearse for next to nothing. My mother was born on Halloween but the only kids that came to our door were those on a dare which made dad happy because he never had to buy candy. Ours was the only house on plague street and the mail man wouldn't even slow down, my father would smile as the bills blew away in the wind.

[essygie]

loved this - and such a cool and funny first line :-)

[Allie]

If your father had a hearse, then he was an undertaker? Maybe you guys were the reason it was haunted.

[Bianca]

Nice one! I think the dirty cheerio "vitamin" is the root to your germ problems. :)

[John Wiswell]

Now that is imaginative. Succinct and clever. I like how it becomes increasingly excited, such that by the fifth sentence you could misread to think the speaker's mother was actually born during his own lifetime.

[Amanda]

Jay - made me smile and kept me wanting more - truly a great one! i love the dirty cheerio vitamin alternative!

[Brad Rose]

When I read your writing Jay,like this fine one here, I am reminded of that quote by Paul Valery "Every view of things that is not strange is false.” Nice work.

[Lorianne]

"irany" *snort* thats comedy right there.

[molly]

love this, really original

[Michael Solender]

it's pedant

[Emma Lucy James]

Im sure I know this family...he he. Good story.