Assorted Southern authors A Day in Mossy Creek

A Day in Mossy Creek

Assorted Southern authors

Belle Books, Feb 2006, $14.95, 325 pp.

ISBN: 0976876043

Not long into the new year, most vows are already a thing of the past as "A New Year's Resolution is meant to be broken" even by the residents of Mossy Creek. As the temperatures plummet to freezing, the gossip turns juicier enabling Mossy Creek Gazette correspondent Katie Bell to send some interesting news to Lady Victoria Salter Stanhope in the United Kingdom.

Mid thirties Police Chief Amos Royden wants his non-relationship with fiftyish Mayor Ida Hamilton Walker to turn real and open as he has desired the older woman since he was a teen and she a widow; The Sitting Tree witnessed their only kiss twenty years ago until recently when Amos "punked" her with his threat to court her. Colonel Del Jackson is her age and has the talent to magically remove her garb so why she ponders does Amos excite her.

Local handyman Melvin teaches nonagenarian Miss Irene how to drive an electric scooter. Now she is the most dangerous person on the roads finally forcing Amos to stop her for vehicle endangerment; he impounds her scooter. He learns not to mess with a steel magnolia diva as protests of irate senior citizens from the assisted living home erupt. While a battle royal between the Quinlan sisters occur, Patty Campbell brawls with Orville Gene Simpson when she redid his front yard without his permission. Alas things are normal in wintry Mossy Creek except that Amos and Ida have been outed.

The fifth Mossy Creek tale is a terrific Southern rural hometown story that provides the goings-on in the wintry village. As always the anecdotal stories are warm though the weather outside is frosty, and filled with wit though the participants might do something crazy. Readers will treasure the latest antics of the Belles and Beaus of Mossy Creek.