Author Archives: Mollie Smith Waters

About Mollie Smith Waters

Mollie Smith Waters is a professor of composition, literature, theater, and speech at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Greenville. Waters writes for various publications including Bookkaholic, Southern Literary Review, The Camellia Magazine, Encyclopedia of Alabama, and Alabama Heritage. Waters is a past-participant of several National Endowment for the Humanities summer programs, including seminars on the American Lyceum, the Pilgrims & Wampanoag Indians, and the Transcendentalists. In 2008 she was a Group Study Exchange Team Member to Brazil. In 2013, she directed her first play, Crimes of the Heart, and she helped to create the Greenville Community Theatre. Waters has been a teacher for fifteen years. During her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and walking. She is married to Ronald Waters, and she has a son, Reagan, and a step-daughter, Katelin.

Johnny and the Fighting Bear

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Mollie Smith Waters

“Johnny and the Fighting Bear” By Mollie Smith Waters Growing up, I used to hear this story about how two of my uncles got into a fight with a bear. This story is my imagining, and other family member’s retelling … Continue reading →

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The Girl Who Could Not Stop Dancing by Mollie Smith Waters

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Mollie Smith Waters

Once a long time ago, back in the days when our state was more farmland and cotton fields than highway and industry, there was a beautiful young girl named Abigail who loved to dance. This young lady loved a jaunty … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Highs & Lows by Mollie Smith Waters

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Mollie Smith Waters

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but it is also one that brings me some consternation. Why? There’s no purchasing of gifts to have to contend with, or the fear that one’s gift won’t be liked or appreciated by the receiver. … Continue reading →

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Help Save the Earthworms! by Mollie Smith Waters

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Mollie Smith Waters

Every morning when I go walking, I see them: the mummified remains of hundreds of earthworms littering the sidewalks and roadways of my route. Many of the carcasses are straight as if the worms were extending themselves as far as … Continue reading →

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The Sale – A Short Story by Mollie Smith Waters

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Mollie Smith Waters

“The Sale” The old truck sputtered into the empty lot and came to a stop in the gravel next to the store’s dumpster. From the look of it, the truck wouldn’t make many more trips anywhere, but Sue knew looks … Continue reading →

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The Game by Mollie Smith Waters

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Mollie Smith Waters

I did not want to be an Auburn fan. Instead, I wanted to pull for Ole Miss. At my grammar school, located in the northeastern corner of Mississippi, the supply cart lady sold single subject notebooks: some with the Mississippi … Continue reading →

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