To The Moon, Alice!

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Submitted by Jan on Fri, 2007/08/31 - 5:13pm

"...Henry Tompkins' face darkened...He was now a widower with three strapping sons, an eleven year old daughter who already was taking over all her mother's chores and would make some man a fine wife one day, and Alan. Alan was his only failure. At almost nine, Alan still refused to participate in normal boyhood activities. He spent almost all his time playing with his sister and helping his mother around the house. That would have to stop. And with Mildred gone, there was no one preventing him from asserting himself as a proper father and male role model to his youngest son..."

"To the Moon, Alice!"
by Janice Dreamer
Copyright © 2007