Part VII: Time Warp 2000’s – Cut! #5 (Chapter 107)


D
ear George,

You don’t strike me as the kind of guy who would choose to work in a prison laundry.

Don’t they have something better suited to your talents?

A newsletter or something?

A writing group?

I really liked your poem about the fire, especially the lines, “Flames cut through the brick facade/ Rubber bullets spray the crowd/ Tricks whisper/ Jump! Jump off and/ Die, die, die!/ Cut the thread that binds/ Your life to mine.”



The “die, die, die” line might be a little too strong, but it might be okay.

Did you really set that fire, or was that just poetic license?

My sister is doing much better now.

Thanks for asking.

They received the insurance money and bought a deluxe double wide. She says they have nothing to put in it, though just a big, attractive hull.

I don’t know why, but shortly after Sis’s fire, I bought a box of matches. We don’t smoke, so we have no real need for them well, maybe if the electricity ever goes off, which it never does. I even made a special trip to get the kind that come in a large box, wrapped in waxy paper. I specifically wanted the long wooden matches. Around here, we call them “barn burners” because in the old days, the farmers stored them in their barns, and when the matches spontaneously combusted

Well, you get the general idea.

After running all over town, I finally found them at the Giant. I told the adolescent clerk that I needed them to light the Franklin Stove (which we don’t have), as if he really cared.

When I got home, I hid the unopened box in my underwear drawer where they remain tucked under a pair of brand-new maroon lace bikinis that Sheldon bought for me at Victoria’s Secret.



Do you like that kind of frilly stuff?

Your friend,

*


An egg that separates in the first four days of pregnancy develops not only into separate twins, but results in separate placentas, chorionic casings, and amniotic sacs.

Twins who separate between the fifth and eighth day share a single placenta and chorion, but still have the benefit of two amniotic sacs.

Here, one twin can have a distinct advantage over the other.

Twins who split between the eighth and 12th days share their amniotic sac.

Their cords, interacting within a rocky marriage, often become entangled,

Finally, splitting after the 12th day, twins are conjoined –

Fusing the thread that binds.


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