Yemassee

Sylvia awoke, her heart beat furiously. Emotions heightened, she shook from the frightfulness of the dream. She remained still, trying to make sense of the nightmare. She then quietly rose, so as not to wake Ted and went into the study. She began to type furiously, adding to the lines from her dream:

When Rose declared Sally Mae and her, "Thick as Thieves," she wasn't far off. These two women played what could only be called, "Contact Bingo." They always sat together, and worked as a team, surreptitiously sliding tiles back and forth to one another, in a manner that would have done a magician proud. When sliding a tile was impossible, they would just use one of their many other ruses and strategies to accomplish their goals. Sally Mae would knock a tile off the table, or Rose would suddenly have one of her coughing fits that only seemed to come on her during Bingo.