Strangers

By Ted Stetson

Her love is on thin ice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ted Stetson
• Release date: Jul 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452491721

Ted Stetson

Ted Stetson is a member of SFWA. He was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island and went to Seton Hall and Hofstra. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. He was awarded First Place by the Florida Literary Arts Council and First Place in the Lucy B. McIntire contest of the Poetry Society of Georgia. His short fiction has appeared in Twisted Tongue, MysteryAuthors.com, Future Orbits, State Street Review, and the anthologies; One Evening a Year, Mota: Truth, Ruins Extraterrestrial Terra, Ruins Terra and Barren Worlds. His books include: Night Beasts, The Computer Song Book.

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Strangers

By Ted Stetson

Published by Three Door Publishing

Copyright © 2011 by Ted Stetson

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Strangers

Ted Stetson

That winter Sally went to the lake with her brand new ice skates and wore a knitted white scarf with a light blue coat that brought out her blue eyes. Her blond hair, not long blonde hair, the nuns wouldn't allow long hair, was in a pony tail. She skated with Elizabeth ‘Boobs’ Goldberg and Joanne 'the jock' Rodriguez.

Boobs walked unsteadily on her skates. Jo did most of her skating on her ankles. Sally tried to skate, but wasn't very good. She stumbled and wobbled around the skating loop.

Guys would skate past Sally and shout and she'd fall into the snow bank. Beth and Jo's brothers, Bob and Ray said hi, then they went over to play hockey. Beth and Jo were annoyed, sometimes amused, that their brothers liked Sally. Beth's brother Bob used to like Jo and Jo's brother Ray used to like Beth, before they started hanging around with Sally.

Ut oh, Beth said when she saw Karol coming down to the Forest City lake.

Boys followed Karol everywhere. If she walked to the stores some boy would give her a ride home. Karol didn't go to private Catholic school like Sally; she went to public school in Levittown. When Karol got off the bus a block from her house, she always got a ride home.

Mrs. Campbell would shake her head and say, tsk tsk, but if she needed a ride she would ask Karol to call one of her 'boy'