Fresh FIction Box Not To Miss
Elizabeth Bass Parman | Welcome to Spark
Author Guest / September 6, 2024

Hi friend, and welcome to Spark, Tennessee. I’m Vern Jarvis and I’ll be showing you around today. Let’s start our walk at the south end of Market Street with the Curly Q beauty shop. Most of the ladies in Spark stop in for a wash and set every week. Now that Queenie has hired Evangeline, there can be two chairs’ worth of what I call visiting and others might call gossiping going on. Next door is my shop, Jarvis Emporium. It’s a this ‘n that shop where you can pick up what you need without having to make the hour-long drive into Nashville. Over there is Strickland’s Drugstore, run by Shorty Strickland. He’s got the usual medications and tonics, but he has a great collection of greeting cards. He thinks he’s pretty funny, so if you want a birthday card with the hind end of a donkey on it, or a get-well-soon card with a person wrapped up like a mummy, that’s where you should go. Shorty’s got a heart of gold though, and will run a prescription out to your house if you’re too sick to come in. That’s the Tennessee Farmers Bank on the corner, and now we’re…