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Weekly Contest #358
Old Mrs Greivers did not believe in lying to children. She had never told her son that Santa was real. When his teeth wobbled then fell out one by one, she handed him a dollar to his face and called him a good boy. When his grades plateaued then dropped in middle school, she told him he was a lazy slump, and when he announced his desire to be the next Michael Jackson, she handed him a statistics sheet full of people who had said the same. “Might be harder than you think, dear,” she had said. So instead, he became a drummer. In hindsight, she...
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