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Careless Days

September 28, 2015 By Linda H. Todd Leave a Comment

One of the icons of my teen years was Tom and Mac’s Drive-In restaurant, and as many times as I ate there I never saw the inside of it. That was the domain of the “older” crowd. High school and college kids owned the parking lot. Friday nights after ball games or Saturday nights after movies would find the back fence lined with an assortment of automobiles that today grace the antique car shows.

Linda Todd Hebert - Author, Westlake, LAThe building on Broad Street is no longer there, having been torn down several years ago. For many years it sat, silent and sad, and when I had occasion to drive by, a memory would whisper, calling to remind me of those careless days when our only worry was if we would have a date on Saturday night. The sign was still there, however, and it gave me comfort when I saw it.

Then one day the sign came down. A new sign stood in its place. I think it said City Lights—a new nightclub in town. I knew then it was the end of an era.

Linda Todd Hebert - Author, Westlake, LAI drive by now, some sixty years since those careless days, when a guy could have a five-dollar bill, borrow his dad’s car, take his date to a movie, go to Tom and Mac’s later and have two hamburgers, two malts, two order of fries, and still have enough to leave a quarter tip for the young men who car-hopped there.

I wonder how many others drive by the now-empty lot and feel the sorrow of losing an old friend.

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Linda Hebert ToddLinda has completed her novel—Wild Justice, a crime story with a revenge theme, and has started another one set in Labrador and Louisiana. She writes all her stories in longhand, bringing to life the beautiful bayous of south Louisiana. Read more...

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Keeley Chesson, a crime reporter for a city newspaper, is orphaned at age fourteen, courtesy of a sheriff's deputy who killed her parents and got away with it. Now, fourteen years later, the deaths of her parents still a mystery and the deputy now her town's police chief, tragedy again rocks her…

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The short fiction in this book introduces the reader to an interesting assortment of characters. The lead story—Sidonie and the Loup-Garou—features a high school girl who learns it is a good idea to heed the warnings of her Cajun grandparents. The final tale—The Ghost and Sadie Stackpoole– solves…

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