What Do You Want To Be

The first-grade girls were in a pattern.
What do you want to be?
A princess
A princess
A unicorn princess
A faerie princess
A pony princess.
Then they reached my child.
A witch, she said.
I will eat princess and chop unicorns in half.
The princesses gasped.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Lawless Avatar
February 15, 2022 at 3:58 AM
LOVE THIS......AND HER ATTITUDE
Krutsinger Avatar
February 15, 2022 at 2:13 PM
Thank you John
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