Midnight at the Blackbird Café

by Heather Webber

If you ever need a shoulder to cry on, honey, just holler. If it’s one thing I’ve got, it’s good, strong shoulders.”

I’d done some checking around and found a one-bedroom apartment in town that ran at four hundred dollars a month, not including utilities.

HAHAHAHA! this is a pipe dream, even in rural Alabama.

“Lord love a duck!” Pebbles huffed,

hahaha what a phrase!

“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.” Or in a heart. All of you will always be in my heart, and part of me will always be in yours. That’s a damn good legacy, if you ask me.