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Weekly Contest #38
A goddamn tuba. Of all the insufferable instruments MaryAnn’s tone-deaf children had picked, her youngest and least talented had chosen the loudest, most reverberating. Even worse, he showed no sign of losing interest. By now her former drummer and clarinetist would have given up, broken their respective sticks or reeds, and sworn off all music forever. But Henry—sweet, cherubic Henry, the child that had shown the most promise of never gravitating toward an instrument and sticking to an art the Mathis’s excelled in: accounting—came home from...
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