Eddie Salsbury

Eddie Salsbury, was a very peculiar boy. How peculiar the world and I had yet to find out.

To begin with, he, well, he had marvelously large ears and thousands of freckles. So many, in fact that it looked as if he had tried to become a Dalmatian.

Mama said his hair was “Bright as orange peel but not nearly as kept”, and I got mad at her when she did. You see, Mama didn’t appreciate anything about him, but I did. Because in my opinion, everybody’s got somethin nice about themselves, and for Eddie Salsbury, it was his eyes. I’d been jealous of those clear, icy blue spheres of vision ever since we were four years old. He certainly didn’t hesitate to brag about ‘em. And those eyes were everywhere, always looking, always finding things for his little mouth to ask.
Yes, he was very peculiar. But I liked him.

~E. K. M.