Granny May's Oops-a-Daisy Labor Day Parade

The broad talker's story, "Granny May's Oops-a-Daisy Labor Day Parade," was selected a finalist in the fall 2018 Set Stories Free Contest, a creative project funded by the Knight Foundation and co-hosted by Short Edition and the Public Library Association.

It was the summer of 1983 and eight-year-old Danny Brown was having a terrible time. A shy and serious only child, he had recently been forced to move with his parents and, as far as he was concerned, the whole thing had been a disaster. His father's new job had uprooted them from their cozy city condo and taken them 489 miles away from everything Danny had ever known. He missed his old room, his old friends and especially his beloved Granny May. Fresh people in a really small town are always noticed, and Danny knew he was being closely watched. When they would leave the new house, he'd try no

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