[stylist] for company newsletter:Getting the Halloween Candy

[Ashley Bramlett]

Brenda,
Nice story. And I hope you submitted it. I liked the comparison of a cane's 
arc to a windsheild wiper. I never thought of that, but that is accurate. A 
wiper goes back and  forth in front of the window.

Hope you enjoyed your peanut brittle too.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Brenda
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:40 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] for company newsletter:Getting the Halloween Candy

Dear List

I work for a small online medical transcription company. We have never
met in person.Some of the leadership know I have lost my vision and
converted from doing my job reading print to use of a screen reader, but
not much else.Our supervisor is going to have a newsletter for Halloween
and she wants people to send in pictures of their kids and pets in
costume.Our kids are grown and we don't dress up our pets so I won't
have any pictures, but I thought I would submit a story.My goal is to
send a cute little story that includes elements of me as a blind
individual without over emphasizing.

I would appreciate any constructive feed back.I especially want to know
if I should even send it.

I saved the document as a plaintext file first, so hopefully all the
spaces after periods will be kept.

By the way, I do read a lot of the posts and other people's
contributions.I just don't have anything further to add.So now I'm
asking for help even though I don't contribute much.I don't want to be a
user and not contribute so if you feel I need to quit submitting things
please let me know.

Getting the Halloween Candy

Halloween was only three days away and we had no candy.What is the use
of buying a bunch of candy when it will probably be raining and no
trick-or-treaters will show up I thought.My husband who on most days
avoided the rain braved the current downpour and headed for the car.Not
wanting to miss a chance to get out of the house, I followed him.

"God is great and beer is good and people are crazy" drowned out the
pounding drops on the roof of the car.Not very Halloweenish, but I never
have heard The Monster mash on a country station.

Dodging puddles, we made our way into the store.

"Maybe we should get some beer."I said to my husband as we entered the
store.

"We're here to get candy for the trick-or-treaters." He snapped drying
his glasses.

We really need to get some beer or maybe just listen to the song by
Ricky Carrington again I decided. Smells of rotisserie chicken and baked
goods filled the air and my mouth began to water.Moving my white cane
from one side to the other, I followed the blur ahead of me to the candy
isle at the other end of the store before my stomach could wake up and
growl.

Then I heard it, the unmistakable sound of peanut brittle calling
me.Seeing little more than the bright lights in the store and the blur
of shelves, I began to turn first right, and then left listening as the
sound got louder and louder.Feeling a chill I stopped to zip my coat but
turned right again instead of exiting the store.Back and forth went my
cane like a windshield wiper protecting me from carts and store displays.

The smell of peanuts joined the shouting of PEANUT BRITTLE, PEANUT
BRITTLE and my mouth began to water and my stomach growled.Holding the
plastic box carefully, I walked to a center isle near the checkout line
where my husband could spot me.

"Where'd you go?"I turned around and you weren't anywhere to be found."

"The peanut brittle was calling me and I had to get some. If you want,
we can eat some in the car."

Appeased by the prospect of a treat, my husband released his grip on my
coat and we walked to the checkout line.

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