Soured on Pickles

by Carol L. MacKay

T STUCK TO the bar of soap in the bathtub, so you didn’t I want to wash with it. It found its way into Jordan’s swimming goggles, so it was impossible to see straight. “Mom, we have to shave that cat or get rid of her,” said Jordan. “Really?” said Mom. “But you love Pickles. She sleeps at the foot of your bed every night.” “Pickles’s hair has turned me sour. There is cat hair on my socks. I look like a Neanderthal! There is cat hair on my glue stick. It’s lost its gumminess! There is cat hair in the fishbowl. It’s sopping up all the water! It’s in my keyboard. It’s in my tuba. It’s in between the fingers of my baseball glove!” “Vacuum,” said Mom. “Lint brush,”…

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