Bud Grossmann’s Words of the Week for the Week of April 29, 2012 Previously unpublished fiction. © 2012 by Bud Grossmann. All Rights Reserved.   Flannel Shirt, 1974 © 1974 by Bud Grossmann UNMENTIONABLES Ann! I love the name Ann. I love the Kingston Trio song. I sold a house once ... Oh! Wait! I just had an idea for a piece of fiction I might write based on two occurrences that the name Ann brings forth from my distant past. I could write this piece of fiction, but I can’t possibly publish it, because someone I know might recognize one or both of the Anns, and one of the Anns accidentally left her sexy underwear in the house I eventually sold to the other Ann. Did I say that right? I sold the house, not the underwear. I don’t know what I did with the underwear. Ann and her new husband had visited me and my wife while on their sort-of honeymoon. When they departed, I found the panties on the floor near our washing machine. Though Ann hardly seemed the sort of Ann who would wear this sort of undies, surely she or her new husband must have dropped them when they put laundry in the washer. I figured Ann was the sort of Ann who would prefer to puzzle in perpetuity over her panties’ disappearance rather than to receive them in the mail with a friendly note. I found these, Ann, I sniffed them, and I washed them, and, gosh, they are REALLY pretty! And so, as an act of continuing hospitality, I did something else with those pretty panties, but for the life of me, I cannot remember what. ♦         ARCHIVES         Click for a list of other Words of the Week I would welcome your thoughts on this page (or any of my others).  Write to me at the following address.  Please be sure to spell Grossmann with two n’s and mention what page you are writing about. Thanks!  BUD GROSSMANN Top of this page | HOME | Fine Photography | Picture of the Day | Writings | | Words of the Week | Mom & Pop Prop. Mgt. | FAQ |

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