Welcome friends. Can you believe it's April already? And you know what that means, don't you?

That's right. Alligator mating season. For two months I got to deal with this nonsense.

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My artel tonight comes courtesy of author Alfred Alley and Vailoch's books.

This one's from the collection Find Us and other stories.

It's available on Amazon and audible.com. So without further

delay from author Alfred Alley, I give you the orb weaver. They were a trio.

Exploring the winding creek and plodding through the soggy banks and shallow waters.

Hallie, the tallest, wore overalls and a shirt she received from the previous year's school field day.

Andrea, Hallie's oldest friend, and black shorts and a sleeveless shirt

bearing a bejeweled unicorn. Finally, there was Becca and red. She wore red shoes, jeans with a

wide red stripe down the sides of the legs, and of course, a red-knit dress. Their destination

was an old bridge,

but only in the sense that they felt they needed a destination.

For the moment there was the quiet in the woods.

They enjoyed a chance to talk and escape the ears and eyes of their parents

to air their excitement and anxiety about eighth grade.

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