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The gold I found in the purse under Mme de

  • The gold I found in the purse under Mme de Veau's pillow funded my lavish expedition to find the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary in its native habitat. My ship sailed from Constantinople
  • which became Instanbul after I returned. Damn. How do you like that, I leave for a week looking for the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary and my home town has a new name. Good grief!
  • But I consoled myself with attending to my new love. I planted the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary in my walled garden, in a large pit filled with rich compost. At dusk I would join her
  • on the terrace. We would dine in the fading light, watching the last haze of pink and orange fade from the sky. The sky would darken, and under the twinkling stars, I would
  • grip their neck, and dig in with my nails. Their arms twitched, causing their candy-colored armwarmers to slip down on their wrists, revealing straight, symmetrical scars.
  • The Dark pie graph of Omar McCluskey as a tattoo had been a trend when she was a tweener. A trend that never found its patch outside those few blocks & those 6 weeks in 1973. Pie g
  • raphs must be baked carefully. First, preheat the oven to a ratio of 400:450:475 degrees, in accordance with how you've distributed the filling. Much easier than Venn diagram pies.
  • Then bake the pie graph for forty-five minutes, or until a fork pricked into 3/4s of the surface crust come out cleanly. Pie graph will be hot. Transfer from the oven to an easel
  • & hold in place with drawing pins. Using a slipstick & protractor, cut the pie graph into equal slices before serving a piece to the first person displaying a pair of compasses.
  • "Nice 'compasses'," they said, looking the pie participants up and down. Everyone enjoyed the pie, ignorant of the special ingredient that made it so flavorful...

2 Comments

  1. Gdnknxprmnt Jan 26 2021 @ 13:55

    Hi woab =)

  2. Woab Jan 28 2021 @ 15:26

    Hey Gdnknxprmnt! Good to see you!

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