Where did Karen Hesse Get the Idea for the Story's Kerosene Accident?
"Daddy / put a pail of kerosene / next to the stove / and Ma, / fixing breakfast, / thinking the pail / was / filled with water, / lifted it, / to make Daddy's coffee, / poured it, / but instead of making coffee, / Ma made a rope of fire"
(Out of the Dust, p. 60)
(Out of the Dust, p. 60)