Mobile Acres
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Sandy continues to sit on the steps of the stoop. She feels more than sees, the person across the lane continuing to watch them. At fifteen, Sandy is not totally unaware of her mother's seductive behaviors when she is around men. She is aware too, of the way that her sister Becky has begun to behave in the same manner. Sandy squirms uncomfortably at the thought of it. She isn't interested in the foolishness of boys. She decides to move up the steps to the deck to stretch out her legs a little. As she turns to lift herself up, she glances in the direction of her mother and sees the curtain in the trailer across the lane moves just slightly. Creepy!
Sandy wonders who would be watching them like this. The white van parked in the street at the front of the lot, is partially blocking his view. She decides that it don't seem neighborly of him to be looking through his curtains with binoculars, when he could just come on outside and say "hello." Some creep! Sandy decides she doesn't like the man. She stands up and goes inside the trailer. Her Pa is slouched back on the sofa snoring. She goes through the kitchen, stopping to raid the bag of cookies still in the grocery bag at the back of the counter, then she goes down the hall to the far bedroom which she will be sharing with Becky. Might as well put the sheets on the bed, she decides, putting the magazine on the dresser.
At the gate, Ruby still stands watching her two kids meeting some of the neighbor kids, and since no adults have come out at this end of the lane, she shrugs and walks lingeringly back the path to the trailer steps, sashaying on into the house. She wants the peeping man across the lane to get a good look. Inside, Ruby goes over to Jake and shakes him gently, not wanting to startle him. That could be unfortunate. Rousing him, she tells him to go ahead and get his' self a shower and go on to bed. She makes up the couch while Jake showers, then she turns on the TV and settles on the couch for the evening. Becky and Jerry will probably be out till long after dark.
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About the Book
Life in Mobile Acres is not what it might first appear from behind the uniform rows of trailers with their neatly organized grounds and lovely southern trees. The journey into Mobile Acres begins with the Pierce family relocating to the east coast and into the mobile home village. Within the pages, we will meet the residents of fifteen of the forty-eight lots, and the manager, Tony Attwood. Within each resident's history, we will learn how each of these individuals come to be in Mobile Acres, a gentle mobile home park for single wide trailers, located just on the edge of the small southeastern coastal town of Shallotte, NC. We meet a variety of characters, building from one to another, relating in some way; tagging to another. Unknown to all, a tragedy is developing in their midst, in the form of a pedophile. This tragedy will ultimately bring the residents of this small village of mobile homes closer to one another. Life in Mobile Acres is like life in any given community, people live their lives where they are, some staying a short while, some settling permanently, some moving on.
About the Author
Author Joyce M. Jacobs is an artist and writer who has done freelance work over the years which span the raising of five children. Joyce was born in Harrisonville, Missouri, raised in Colorado, and now resides in Shallotte, North Carolina. Moving to Colorado at the age of ten, her family lived in a trailer park for two years before moving up into the mountains. The memories of the many diverse peoples who passed through that two year experience of trailer park living, initiated a continuing curosity of how different people come to be where they are, at any given point in their lives. It was this wondering that stirred the idea for this novel. And, of course, there are many more lots to consider in Mobile Acres.