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    Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales
    Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales
    Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales
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    Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales

    By Roger Harrison

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    "Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales" is a book of three original short stories from Mississippi writer Roger Harrison. "Catfish Trailer Park" is the story of four Diner waitresses who live in a Trailer Park in Wiggins, Mississippi and what happens when a new waitress is hired and some of the adventures they have at Catfish Trailer Park. You will meet Ginger who is the unofficial leader of the group. You'll meet Joni the catfish widow. You will also meet Kelly who likes to try new things but never seems to succeed at trying them. Then there is Samantha the want to be Actress. The new waitress Iris tries her best to fit into the group."The Dark Seam" is a tale of a man who lives on the Mississippi / Alabama line and what happens one night when he gets the nerve to go into the woods in his back yard one night. "Penelope" tells the story of a young woman that lives with her family who thinks of her as "odd". How will you think of her?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoger Harrison
    Release dateOct 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301577101
    Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales
    Author

    Roger Harrison

    I was thrown into this world before the internet or cell phones made this world much smaller. I became another part of a poor but somewhat loving family that lived in Brookhaven Mississippi. Times were hard so my dad moved us all over Mississippi from job to job to support us. After spending a chunk of my life in Mississippi I decided to move to Texas to seek my own life. While living there I met the woman who I thought was going to be the answer to my dream. But like most of my dreams that dream faded quickly away. Then one day in 2002 my Dad called and told me my Mom had had a stroke. So I gave up my good job and packed and moved back to a small town in Mississippi to help my Mom and my then 72 year old Dad. Then came Hurricane Katrina and destroyed our house. But we survived and "lived" in a FEMA camper for about six months until our house was rebuilt. We moved back in and thought things would be good now, but I guess I forgot how life is. In the first part of 2008 my Mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer. But fortunately she got a hysterectomy and that took care of that, or so we thought. In early 2011 she was diagnosed with bladder cancer. She had a tough time, after all by then she was 73 years old, but in September 2011 after a few hitches she had her bladder removed. After recovering from the surgery she then had twenty-five treatments of radiation. On July 7th 2012 she passed away. As for me, I take and make it day by day and help my Dad, who is now 82, as much as I am able to help him.

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      Catfish Trailer Park - And Other Southern Tales - Roger Harrison

      Catfish

      Trailer Park

      And

      Other Southern Tales

      By

      Roger Harrison

      ©2013 by Roger Harrison

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is dedicated to my Mom, Betty Harrison. She was my daily inspiration and my daily encouragement. She passed away from Cancer on July 7, 2012. I also dedicate this book to my Dad, Robert Harrison who has also been a big encouragement to me.

      Catfish Trailer Park

      About thirty miles south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi off Highway 49 there is a small town called Wiggins, Mississippi. It has a lake nearby that the locals call Catfish Lake because it is regularly stocked with catfish. Near the lake there is a small trailer park called Catfish Trailer Park. It is nothing fancy. It has about a dozen trailers parked on it. The residents there often joke about how before you buy it, it’s called a Mobile Home and after you buy it, it’s called a trailer.

      Every night at ten o’clock, like a routine they have been doing for many years, four women come out of each of their trailers all wearing the same looking waitress uniform and get into one small beat-up looking car. As they begin there journey to work at the small Diner on the outskirts of Hattiesburg they do not say anything to each other. They have made the trip so many times there isn’t much left for them to talk about to each other. They knew each other so well they had forgotten each others last name.

      There was Ginger, a thirty-nine year old divorced woman who owned and drove the car. She was very particular about who drove it. In fact, as long as these women have known each other she never let any of them drive the car. Although everywhere else you would see Ginger she would have a cigarette hanging from the corner of her mouth, in her car no one was allowed to smoke, not even her.

      In the front seat next to Ginger was Joni, who was also thirty-nine years old, and the only married one of the group. She had a 10-month-old son who she had to get a babysitter for when she was at work because her husband was either working or off fishing for catfish at the lake. She usually was finishing putting on her makeup on the way to work. In the backseat sat Samantha who was twenty-nine. The other women in the group liked to call her a beautiful dreamer. She had always dreamed she would be a famous actress by the time she was thirty. Her Mom had always told her she had the looks to be a famous actress and always encouraged her in that direction. She would sale crafts she made online, take the money she made, and buy old movie and television scripts

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