Author Lyn Cote’s Summer Gift to Readers!
WATERMELON COWBOY
Short Story by Lyn Cote
(Copyright 2010 Lyn Cote)
“Hi, are you a cowboy?” Danny asked.
Sarah stood behind her freckled, about-to-enter-kindergarten son. Affectionately she finger-combed his red curls. On the way home from her new job and Danny’s new daycare, they’d stopped at the roadside produce stand.
“Well…” The tall, good-looking man in denim eased out of his lawn chair, then stood up by the weather-beaten stand. “Do you think a watermelon needs roping?”
“But you got on a cowboy hat.” Danny pointed to the battered straw hat shaped like a Stetson the man wore.
“No, this is my melon hat. Always wear it when I work the melon patch and this stand.”
“Oh.” Danny’s voice showed his disappointment.
Sarah sighed inwardly. She knew all about the kind of disappointment that comes when appearances were deceiving. Her six-year marriage to Danny’s father had been an unfolding story of disillusionment. The only things genuine she’d gotten out of the marriage were debt and Danny.
“What can I get for you, ma’am?” the Watermelon Cowboy asked.
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