Laveda D. Rockford

Laveda D. Rockford oil on canvas painting unfinished work in progress Mitten According to Mr. Kinder  PART TWO short story by Laveda D, Rockford continued: Mr. Kinder contacted a private investigator and asked him if he could find out how much his neighbors had saved for their future. Because of Mitt’s medical issues and special needs, his mother had not been able to save much. Mitt, on the other hand, thought that they were saving enough to buy a house very soon. There was one thing that made him sad. What if they found a house and it was far away from his one and only friend Mr. Kinder? Mr. Kinder was the glue that held his otherwise solitary life together. No friends to play with, no dad, just his mother. He loved his mother very much, but he needed Mr. Kinder, the male figure he so longed for in his life. Mitt could talk to Mr. Kinder about boy things and the concern that he had for his mother. And the adventurous stories that Mr. Kinder told him about allowed him to expe...

  Mitten According To Mr. Kinder Mitt shoveled snow off Mr. Kinder’s front porch, being mindful of the noise the shovel made while crossing the old plank boards. Mitt was not his given name, one day when he was outside, he lost one of his mittens and wore a single mitten all day and Mr. Kinder had called him Mitt ever since. Mr. Kinder was Mitt’s best friend. Mitt, knowing that his disability made him unable to play the same games as the other children in the neighborhood, spent his late afternoons alone until Mr. Kinder started talking to him across the fence last summer. The nice afternoon visits turned into having a soda while sitting on Mr. Kinder’s front porch listening to Bach or some other classical music drift quietly through the window to tickle, and at times, to frighten Mitt. Mr. Kinder sometimes would tell him the story behind the musical piece if it was not too scary, to ease the discomfort that Mitt felt when the resounding loud base filled the air. But most of ...