The Boxford Stories: A Short Story Collection: 1

Welcome to the world of the Runyons and the Feldsteds two Mormon families in 1970s Maryland. Far from their Western American roots they cling to each other like exiles clutching a precious box of topsoil from the old country.In The Boxford Stories you will meet Ada Runyon who always turns to Ruthalin Feldsted when she needs an ear--sharing her deepest confidences her everyday musings and her bits of horrified gossip. Yet Ada dies inside whenever Ruthalins country-cousin manners poke out in public.Latham Runyon a history professor and Erval Feldsted a hospital engineer bond every Sunday night over gooey desserts and vigorous religious discussion a game their children call Stump the Rabbi. Underneath their balding heads and graying temples each man desperately seeks a sign that God would choose him as a buddy.The Feldsted and Runyon children running breathlessly through each others houses and backyards have long considered each other substitute cousins. However Ginni Runyon plots to change herself from the girl next door to the girl Marc Feldsted cant live without.And when Boxfords Mormons mix with the rest of the town everybody could use a field guide to the other species.Laugh cry and shake your head with the Runyons and Feldsteds as they make their way through the decade that brought us leisure suits and urban decay.