Her Favorite Fan
For the most part, Jerusha didn't like it when people read over her shoulder. Oh, sure, she tolerated it but she didn't like it. She could understand when necessity required it, but she couldn't enjoy the feeling of eyes scrutinizing her works as they happened. But for her favorite fan, she didn't mind. Jerusha's sister, Ann, was one of the few- nay, the Only- person given leave to read as Jerusha wrote. Why this started and how it became accepted, Jerusha knew not, but her sister enjoyed it, and often was helpful, so she was given exclusive rights to read what the world had not yet seen. Then the day came when Jerusha turned Ann loose with her writings, permission granted that she could read (and perhaps spell check) the efforts of many evenings spent straining her eyes at a computer screen. Ann was giddy and carefully censored any words that might even slightly be thought of as criticism of her older sister's writings. Thus how she won over Jerusha to...