Sybil Bruncheon's "Strange Stories From Suburbia"…

… it had been a fairly mild Summer… well, until that final week of July and the beginning of August when the "weather gods" decided that it was time to get down to business. The air thickened and thickened day by day until even the nights were fog-bound, but with steam!!!… heavy rolling steam which clung to one's clothes and lungs like a suffocating blanket. Literally, it was hard to breathe, even if you tried to cool off with a midnight stroll by the water's edge at the ocean. There was no breeze, no air, no relief, no escape!!… well, unless you escaped inside your own mind…

Is that what Miss Polly Bernbundle did? Such a polite and responsible young lady…until the neighbors reported that in full view of little Stacy Plunkett's 8th birthday party, Polly decided to recite various passages from Edith Hamilton's famous Anthology of Greek & Roman Mythology. It wasn't just that she was reciting the stories, but that she was shrieking them at the top of her lungs as if she was the Oracle at Delphi… long, strident and stentorian tones bellowed out over the white picket fence through which all thirty-seven of the children and their stunned parents stared. And then, then the biggest shock of all! Miss Bernbundle decided that it would be most effective (and educational!) if she re-enacted each myth in full… beginning with the "Birth of Aphrodite"… and it only involved the garden hose and the small wading pool she had gotten for Mr. Rollo, her Jack Russell terrier who barked incessantly as she "rose from the waves"…

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