Sunday, July 27, 2008

Her teeth were crooked, but the only one who seemed to mind was her sister, Rita. Everyone else always commented her on her lovely garden, and her keen ability to sense the good in everyone, but Rita never stopped pestering Jane about her unsightly appearance. One day, while Jane was walking through the forest, a comely sprite appeared. "Yo ho, there, my child! What seems to be causing you the problem?" Jane looked taken aback for a minute, then said, "Well, my sister, Rita, calls me ugly because I have brown teeth with holes in them. But my father just died in a car accident Monday morning, and he had no life insurance! Now my family is too poor to fix these accursed stones of black magic." The sprite giggled. "Child, you have nothing to worry about. I have afflicted your sister with a frightful case of the Shits! She won't like it when all the other classmates are making fun of her, will she?" Jane was overjoyed; finally, a chance to teach her sister a lesson! She skipped all the way home. When she got there, it was getting late, so she decided to brush her teeth so that she could go to bed. She tried the bathroom door, but it was locked. She called her sister's name. "Rita?" Jane rapped her knuckles fiercely on the gnarled wood. Something was wrong. No answer was coming from inside the bathroom. Jane picked up her ax and swung wildly at the door, busting it down. There she saw, sprawled on the ground, her sister, covered with blood and ants crawling over her body. The sight was too much for poor Jane. In shock, she fainted, and fell right into the bathroom sink, knocking out the very teeth that had plagued her for so long.

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