Fools.
She looked at the neighbors and the mayhem ensuing in the mudpie their backyard had become. “Fools. Somebody should tell them that everything referenced in the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ is a bird.” Her wife reached around her from behind. Snuggled in tightly. Chin nestled into the space between shoulder and neck. The raucousness next…
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Mayhem of Prepositional and Conjunctive Proportions
On the first day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree. Well this is nice, I thought. She’s a pretty bird, and I’ve heard the eggs are quite good, though smaller than chicken eggs. I’ve read that pear trees need to be planted in early spring, so I’m…
Mason Hall. Three.
The woman who came to retrieve Cara was neither as deferential as Penny nor as icy as Ms. Carrington. In fact, with her mass of black hair held back with a white bandanna and her faded sweatshirt and denims, Beatrice Thurmond looked too laid back, too chill to be a supervisor. She gave Cara a…
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