I’m not interested in purchasing any of the babies on display. Something is wrong with every single one of them! And this isn’t some bargain basement bonanza, where cut-throat ladies grab cut-rate babies by the limbs, nearly drawing and quartering them before even handing over their hard-earned money, no! This is one of the finest baby boutiques in town.
But these babies? I won’t have any of them! They’re all too smooth and too white! And everyone knows the well-heeled ladies in my circle only accept sad-eyed light-brown babies with cureable health problems.
I take my money and go elsewhere.
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Previously:
#1: 100 – “Food For Thought”
#2: 100 – “Mammu”
#3: 100 – “In A Pickle”
#4: 100 – “Meet Me”
#5: 100 – “Use Your Noodle”
#6: 100 – “Dental Gross”
#7: 100 – “Cold Cut Heart”
#8: 100 – “Sour Grapes”
#9: 100 – “Knitwit”
#10: 100 – “Taking the Plunge”
#11: 100 – “Perish the Thought”
#12: 100 – “Rustestines”
#13: 100 – “Band Together”
#14: 100 – “Poo Gil”
I have renamed this series of very short stories. When I started doing them, I intended to vary the number of words in each story; hence, the name “A Story In So Many Words”. Since every story is 100 words, I was forced (at gunpoint!) to come up with a new name for the series. (If you can figure out what “Dollar Story” means, you are very smart. If not, you are not.) I will not go back and change all the old entries to reflect this renaming. (The gun wasn’t even loaded!) However, I will continue numbering the stories in sequence as if nothing ever happened.