Prompt Word: Coke Minervie and Chip 60 Leaving the grocer with Peter and Chip in tow, Minervie loaded the kids and her groceries into her 1950 Studebaker Champion, in Turquoise, and started to head away from home. She got caught up at a Rail Road crossing. Thirty hopper cars, all marked “Coke Express” lumbering by down the river tracks. With no end in sight, Minervie decided to drive up river to maybe find the end of the train....

Prompt Word: Pâté Minervie and Chip 59 Minervie was at the village grocer with Chip and Peter in tow. Well, the children were at the spinning comic rack at the front of the store, busy debating about which titles they would try to get Minervie to buy for them. A heavily accented French voice called to Minervie, “Escuse, do you know, uh, is this any good?” He was holding a can with the label, “Pâté de Froi Gras”....

Prompt Word: Work Minervie and Chip 58 It was well past midnight when Minervie appeared next to her coat rack. Too late to disturb Mindy and wake Chip, she put down her things, and went off to bed. She hadn’t slept for 28 hours at this point. The next morning, after a solid six hours of sleep, Minervie headed over to Mindy’s place with a Thermos of coffee, two boomerangs and the Aasha game board....

Prompt Word: Relay Minervie and Chip 57 Edna did a bit of magic of her own to keep Gungan from noticing “down” while telling him the story of these mountains as told through generations of the Gubbi Gubbi people. “These mountains are the Daki Comon, though the white man calls them glass houses…” Had the ladies not have been witches, they wouldn’t have made this a casual climb. Had the ladies not been assisting Gungan without his knowledge, he wouldn’t have been able to get above 20 feet from the base....