Digging Out

Divorced mother of two, Abby lives with her grandmother and twins, Jed and Jill, on a farm so cluttered there is hardly room to move. One day she snaps, and decides to clean up decades of mess.

To her surprise, people will pay good money for old junk. Even more surprising is someone is after the one thing she values more anything else.

Octogenarian I. C. Talbot wrote pulp fiction from her hill-top home deep in the Kentucky bluegrass region. She published her collection of short stories with the help of her daughter K. A. Jordan.

This short story is 6.5k words.