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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