Harold Gates slowed the snow-topped yellow taxi and edged it along the slushy curb to a stop where she stood, shivering in a tattered wool coat in a January blizzard on the steps of her unlit ... [+]
Susan is the author of multiple picture books as well as poems and short stories for children. She never passes up the chance for ice cream! "Ice Cream at Bedtime" is in Short Circuit #11, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Ice cream at bedtime,Aunt Betty's the best!She knows in the summerit's hard to find restwhen faced with hot sheets,hot pillows, hot bed,no place cool enoughto lay a hot head.Instead, we escape,my aunt grabbing the keys,and hop in her carto catch a night breeze.Next stop: the Drive Thruwhere we're chilled to our bonesby soft swirls of winterin tall dripping cones.A small secret eatenbeneath the moonlight—oh, how I love ice creamon a hot summer's night!