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Seeking a brief reprieve from taking care

  • Seeking a brief reprieve from taking care of grandmother, I made my way to the bathroom. I had heard from family that she was hiding some strong stuff in her medicine cabinet,

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  • and boy were they right. Grandma had oxycotins in her medicine cabinet. Quickly I snatched the cap off and downed a few. But I'd grabbed the wrong bottle, I'd just eaten a ton of

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  • Something hallucegenic! I began to totter around on my feet as strange things appeared all across my vision. As my consciousness faded i thought why does grandma have THIS medicine

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  • and slumped forward into the sink. When I woke in the musty smelling cellar, a number of grandma's other secrets were revealed to me. Her warty wrinkled visage grinned at me

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  • from the depths of necrotic tissue. Even half-skeletal, granny's corpse was still haunting. It was a face I'll remember when I close my eyes. The D.A. wolf spoke, "She jumped bail,

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  • with a pail on her haid." It was an open and shut case. She had no chance. "Guilty!" the Judge banged a tattoo, 'and watch your tail goin in jail!"

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  • How that Southern judge had known she was born with a tail, the defendant would never know. Her parents had kept it secret even from her for years, but it survived in a Mason jar

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  • ever since that frightening visit from the farmer's wife. The mousy woman was shocked when her parents finally offered the long-lost tail to her. All she could muster was a squeak

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  • But when the mousy woman tried to attach the long-lost tail, she could not as she now only had a pus-filled scab stump in its place and maggots infested the tail. Depressed she

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  • crawled into her bed, cradling the scraggly tail, sobbing her heart out while Stumpy the dog slept at her feet, not caring one way or the other. And that is the end of this tail.

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