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Soiled

March 31, 2022 2 Comments

By Geja Hadderingh

Everything about her life is immaculately clean and tidy, apart from her two boys.

She lives a ‘clean queen’ existence disturbed only by her sons’ filthy sportswear, snotty noses, and fingerprints clinging to door handles.

Even their conception had been clinical; no need for the mess of a man in her life.

Picking up the teaspoon, recklessly left next to the sink, she mutters to herself, “They’ll be the death of me.”

On a breezy afternoon, the boys quietly scatter damp soil onto her oak coffin.

In unison, as if practised, they wipe their hands on the backs of their trousers.

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  1. John says

    March 31, 2022 at 8:19 am

    Funny – love the reckless teaspoon.

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  2. Cathy Cade says

    March 31, 2022 at 8:56 am

    Poor boys.

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