James peered down the hill and shut his eyes

James peered down the hill and shut his eyes for a moment. He couldn't remember what she looked like but remembered that she looked pale and ghostly. Was she a ghost or a figment o

f his oregono joint stimulated imagination? Maybe it was the ghost of his mother displeased with what he was doing? His father'd buried her up here under the old stump

There was a knock on the door. I opened it and there was mom covered in clotted earth. "Ever think for one moment I was only SLEEPING? Where's your father?" I was so grounded.

My friends laughed when I explained why I was grounded. The irony was that while I had to sit in my room all week long, they went to the park to play zombie tag with the rest of

the mortuary salon crew. "Granchley lost another finger and two toes today, you're missing EVERYTHING!" Pez taunted me lumbering by, almost losing her own tongue she spit so hard.

But she had a frog tongue that was gooey and totally stretchable. Pez then snatched Gummi worm right out his easy boy and started chomping on his head,that's when Pop Rocks

dove into Coca-Cola lake. Everything exploded. The Hersheys kissed the pavement. The Peeps were a horrid, visceral sight. Jelly Babies cried, dismembered for blocks, to Molasses

Road from Milky Way. She looked at the destruction, threw her hands up and laughed until Skittles rainbows covered the sky. Her plan to fill her little space in the world with

her dream of rainbows and unicorns when she was little shattered before her eyes. Her inner 5-year old self cries tears of melted chocolate as she