Fictionlet
“You can’t trust a thing kids say any more,” said Greg. “A bunch of girls outside just spend fifteen minutes telling me that London Bridge was falling down, falling down, falling down. But I checked the news, there’s nothing about it.”
“Uh huh,” said Brigid.
“Of course they might have just been confused,” he added. “They seemed to have mistaken me for an attractive woman.”
“I hope you realize,” said Brigid, “that this kind of malarkey is why you don’t have any friends except for that cat.”
“Harumph,” said Greg. “Ozymandias and I share a bond of true friendship, and tuna fish.”
“Don’t kid yourself,” said Brigid. “If Ozzie had opposable thumbs, you would be so evicted.”
-The Gneech