Bell’s General Store

Fiction by Kevin Joseph Reigle

The jar of jelly beans in the window of Bell’s General Store is my only chance to ask Alabama to the carnival. You see, if I can guess the number of jelly beans in the jar, I’ll win the cash prize of twenty-five dollars, and then I’ll have enough money to take Alabama to the carnival.

You can’t ask the prettiest girl in the county if you don’t have a dim…