The amusing incident of THE DOG IN THE NIGHT

If I can’t come up with a word while I am writing, I use a place holder and keep going lest I lose my train of thought. Often this is an XX, but sometimes I put in the first word or phrase that comes to mind. I try to remember to put them in upper case so I can find them easily when I do my first edit.
This year’s Holiday story was already out when someone told me I had missed something in my edit. I didn’t have a name for the ship that waited off Cobb’s Crossing to carry passengers and freight to Philadelphia. So there in the Delaware River in the mid 1700s is a ship oddly named The Good Ship Lollypop. So once more the reader is abandoned by the author. Pick what ever name you like when I post the story next week.