When boys don’t read stories with strong, smart, or otherwise incredible women, it seeps into their brains that these women don’t exist. When they are not taught that they can look up to women, they don’t. This is poisonous to society.
– Jeremy Whitley
Tag: poison
haiku 173
just enough breeze
sprayer plane’s poison
wafts inside
Fiction: The To-Do List
A stray piece of paper is more likely to be picked up if it’s light pink with cute artwork of a kitten and some handwriting on it.
That was the stray piece of paper Denise saw on the grocery store floor, near the customer service desk and picked up. Next to the kitten, at the top of the page, was printed: “Things CONNIE Needs To Do Today.” It was from the sort of notepad advertised in junk mail, and Connie had ordered some. There was, indeed a list of things to do:
1. Call Mom
2. Deposit check
3. Pay rent
4. Take movies back
5. Get haircut – Fran
6. Wash car
7. Go to work
8. Get CheezPuffers, Bloody Mary mix, rat poison
9. Meet Terry at hotel
10. Put rat poison in Terry’s drink
11. Go home, wash clothes & clean out fridge!
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