Penny Candy
by Tina Barry
Rows of sweets on green-edged glass. Teeth tear a tiny colored dot from a long roll of paper. A star disappears on the tongue. Thank you for the card with the lovely sentiment. Thank you for the flip book with the woman dancing, bird wing elbows, knees this way and that. And the one with two iced cakes for breasts, her waist lost in a cloud of calico, white bloomers snagged on a short black boot.
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Author's Note
"Penny Candy" is in the latest issue of Rufous City Review. Rufouscityreview.com.
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Do you think they still have those dots on paper? I liked this for the combination of innocent and naughty. fave
MaryAnne nails it: innocent and naughty. Naughty and nice. Very nice. *
Wonderful image, Tina: "Thank you for the flip book with the woman dancing, bird wing elbows, knees this way and that."
Great piece.
Thanks MaryAnne, Jack and Sam. So glad you like "Penny Candy"!
Like it.*
Thanks for the read and the star, J.P.!
provocative piece, I wished it to go on a bit more.
Sweeter than candy! I love this one, the alliteration, the prose/poetry so evident, the way it sounds when I read it aloud, and your surprising and refreshing word choices. And as our friends mention above, the naughty/nice edge which you seem to enhance. Bravo. So happy to share this publication with you and Mr. Valvis.
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Thanks Susan and Robert. And Robert, thanks for the star!
"Teeth tear a tiny colored dot from a long roll of paper."
That sums up childhood!
Well done, Tina!
Thank you, Bill!