"Abernathy's Park!" (Flash Fiction)

Caroline Abernathy had not always been a country girl. But the time when she wasn't, or hadn't been, was back around 1937, and to be honest, it was only for a five-year period, between her fifteenth and twentieth birthdays, when she attended college, such a short period, folks she knew on the plantation, and down in Fayetteville, who were fifty or older, back in 1972, only remembered her being gone, and many of her old friend forget she had ever left North Carolina; because she had stayed at the plantation some twenty-two miles from the city all those other years, after she got married. She was a young woman then, attending a New York City-university, her father had gone to Colombia University, and his brother to Harvard, and her, to the city's college. Further reading ...