As Nina was setting on the couch, I asked, “Where are you going Nina?”
“To the heavens,” she answered. I was amazed at the answer and so were her parents.
One more question, “What will you do at the heavens, Nina?”
Her reply made me feel great:
As she hugged herself she said, “Hug God!”
Connie Bedgood has been published in Good Old Days, Screamin Mamas, the Penman Review, the Indiana Voice Journal, Nostalgia Zine, Section 8 and Conceit Magazine. Some of her stories were published in a book called Lake Texoma, Volume 1. In 2017 so far, she has had stories in Sacred Cow Magazine, won third place in a writing contest, and will be published in Screamin Mamas again. The Stray Branch will publish one of Connie's strange stories in 2018, and a nonfiction story will come out in Christian Living in Mature Years.
