NOTES
Another magazine prompt is the source for this story. This time, it was The First Line Literary Journal. Here’s the fun idea behind The First Line: every quarter, the editor, David LaBounty, releases a first line and the challenge is to produce a story using that first line, verbatim.
You can even go so far as to take all four first lines, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall, and write a story incorporating all four, to be published as a series. I attempted this once and although David did not publish the result, I certainly will some day. It led to what I feel is some of my best work and a very compelling story set during the aftermath of WWII.
The first line that inspired Blessings and Curses on a Calico Cat was:
Mrs. Morrison was too busy to die.
I wanted to come up with somethi
