Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for December 17, 2016

The Library Police are on the way.

Do the Book Worm,

Boogie, woogie, and squrim,

Are the binders still firm?

More importantly, the books in question were sold for a dollar a piece at your estate sale, by your family, rather than being returned to the library.

It is their way of saying how much they love you.

Your father who shares your name originally checked them out. Now they’re family heirlooms.

Their value? A debt of as much as $96,059.

I kept All Quiet on the Western Front checked out and overdue from 1969 through 1974, I think.Probably not my proudest accomplishment, but better than some.

Better than some of my other accomplishments, that is.

Anybody else half-frozen from removing evidence of global warming from their driveways?

Just returned from Huron SD, for my 99 year old Aunt’s funeral. Frostiest of frosty, frost time.

                             MOTHER THALWEG

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♥Yes, We Feel the Love♥

Would you accept an IOU.?

But I don’t know if that is my right or their right.

I’m terrible at these things.

FAAS is back.

No faster way to descend into the uncanny valley than to mess with child-adult proportions.

What is the sound of 9 frogs clapping?

Chucky got a sex change.

I don’t know … that dancing figure looks like she must be Chucky’s cousin.

Checked out from reality and Lost in his own thoughts, Ferrins did not notice Altwin returning until he was standing next to him at the window, delicately clearing his throat. With him came a pair of Sannico regulars, who had gone with him to examine the ship and determine its state, one manning oars with Altwin and the other the tiller as they went out to see what they could see.

They smelled of sweat and fish and the docks, shocking Ferrins out of his reveries, surprised that he could have missed that when they came in. Quickly slapping a strong and stern look of unquestionable authority over his moue, he turned to them to hear what intelligence they might have gathered.

“We have checked it out, Primary,” said Altwin, “and it is neither a plague ship nor a war ship, and not a pirate ship. It is the Grimsmus Ship, as in the legends, or so says her captain and sole occupant. And Grimsmus is the name on her hull as well. I suggest we head inland, and quickly, just to be on the safe side of things. Things of legend are not to be trifled with.”

Run, run, as fast as you can; you can’t catch me, I’m a book-reading man!

(And I’m not saying when I was born; only that I remember check-out cards in library books….)