The Rice Bowl_Mouse!_I Wish I Heard Him_Coloring
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The Rice Bowl
Carla put her elbows on the counter and rested her head in her hands. She blew out a breath and hoped no one was around to see her frustration. Or her desperation. She knew no one would see, because only she and the children were still in the restaurant. Yang Li, her chef, and Sun Yin, her waitress, had gone home for the evening. She’d had to let the other staff go, so it was just the three of them running the place now. With The Rice Bowl gaining a reputation as the worst restaurant in town, there wasn’t enough business to support the fifteen staff she’d had only a month ago. She wiped sweat ...
Mouse!
(This uses a triangular sequence to determine the number of words per line, and per paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_number. A couple of the longer lines seem to wrap as well - not clear how to resolve that with this editor.)Mouse!Inmy house.Iknow notwhence it came.Eyesbeady eyesglare at meand whiskers chuff away.“Shoo!”I shoutand heavily stomp.“Get you gone now,beast, and forever hie away.”“No,”it squeaks;its nose twitches,“It cannot be done,I’m so sorry to say.”And I’m perplexed and ever vexed.“What?”I wonder.“How dare you?What insolence is this?”Such a cheeky little moused...
I Wish I Heard Him
I Wish I Heard Him“I didn’t marry for love.” We were fwww.onedoor.ccriends. I cared about him. One day, drunk and upset, I had recounted how I needed to be married. He had awkwardly patted my shoulder and sympathized, telling me about his problems. I offered the solution. He accepted. The perfect answer for both of us, dropped straight into our laps. Izra chewed an ice cube thoughtfully. “Then why did you?” It had been one of the hardest decisions I’d had to make. My parents had fought through an advancing civil war, an unstable political state, ethnic tensions, and a revolving door of anger and fear in ord...
Coloring
Today is Saturday March two and I brung 4 of my crayons because mommy said I’m not allowed to bring all 8、 I brung red, blue, and yellow because in Kindergarten we learned that you can make all the colors with red, blue, and yellow, only I don’t think you can make pink. Pink is my favorite color. I also brung brown because, in my Barbie coloring book, the page I want to do today, Barbie is holding a puppy and the puppy is brown and I don’t know how to make brown with red, blue, and yellow, even though I’m in Grade One now. Maybe we learn brown in Grade Two.We’re in our new car and it’s also br...