Kid’s Tale of a Day with Gramps (WIP)
A Slice of Life/ or A Slice of Pie
(True stories told in a fictional style.)
By RL Brown
Morning's first blush slips through the mizzling mist; sunlight pours over the windowsill. I feel a wiggle.
“Roll out, sleepyhead!” says Gramps.
The day begins with Gramps in his bucket hat. I grab breakfast as we head out the door, the screen door snaps back.
“Gotta grease those springs,” says Gramps.
We walk to the pond, a pole in each hand - no buckets, no boats, or carrying large totes, just Gramps, Chico, and me. Gramps says there is no better companion than a good dog beside me. Crickets hide by the pond bank. Gramps catches the bait.
He shows me how to thread a hook, attach my sinker, and snatch a cricket. Learning to cast a line is best done with just two.
“Ker-thunk.”
Secrets are safe.
Rhonda Bronte Brown is a National Board-Certified Teacher and retired teacher/counselor whose work has appeared in Better Than Starbucks, The Trouvaille Review, Meat for Tea, The Orchards Poetry Journal and The Best Haiku 2025 international anthology and several online journals. She holds both a BS and a Master’s degree and writes children’s literature and poetry exploring nature, SEL, and STEM.
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