Thursday's Child

About the Book

This volume contains a collection of short stories written over a period of 10 years.

Sensitive and imaginative, the essence of the authors soul has been committed to writing. They are warm and tender and easy to relate to.

The author writes from personal experience about growing up in the south in a small town in Alabama with a population of 72 people.

It is a memoir not to be forgotten that stirs warm memories of love and death, sometimes funny and always deeply touching.

About the Author

In 1935, Carolyn Helm Gates was born in Scooba, Mississippi and later moved with her family to Geiger, Alabama. Carolyn attended The University of Alabama and, after marriage and raising three children, she graduated cum laude and did graduate work at the University of Memphis. She resides in Germantown, Tennessee with her husband, Jim, of 53 years.