Dolly Slocum

“Mister Josh you better get in here!” my aunt Connie said when I walked into my grandmother’s apartment after school. Aunt Connie said it in with her trademark giggle-cackle that sounds like mine. “Dolly Slocum is sassing back and I told her just wait until Daddy gets home.”

Connie was sitting in her wooden rocking chair that looked exactly like the one…