MISS.PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR
CHILDERN
-chapeter one part one-
I spent the last afternoon before construsting
a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of
adult diapers. It was a thing of beauty, really, spanning five feet
at its base and towering above the cosmetis aisel with jumbos for
the foundation, lites the observation deck, and meticulously
stacked trial sizes for its ironic spire. It was almostperfect,
minus one crucial detial.
"You used neverleak" Shelley
said, "The sale's on Stay-Tide" shelley was the store
manger, and her slumped sholders and dour expression were as as
much a part of her uniform as the blue polo shirts we all had to
wear.
"I thought you said i neverleak" i said,
because she had. "Stay-Tite" she insisted, shaking her
head regretfuly, as if my tower were a crippled racehorse and she
bearer of the peral-handled pistol. There was a breif but awkwakrd
sclience in which she continued to shake her head and shift her
eyes from me to the tower and back to me again. I stared blankely
at her, as if compleatly failing to grasp what she was
passive-aggressively implying. "Ohhhhhhhh" i said
finally. "You mean you want me to do it over?"
"Its just that you never used to leak." she
repeated "No problme. ill get started right away" with
the toe of my regluation black sneaker i nudged a single box from
the tower's fonduation. In an instant the whole magnificent
structure was cascading down around us, sending a tidal wave of
diapers crashing across the floor, boxes caroming off the legs of
startled customers , skidding as far as the automatic door, witch
slid open, letting in a rush of august heat.
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