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Weekly Contest #140
I remember a day in late May, 1953, when several of my friends and I disappeared into the bathroom after the last bell rang. I borrowed a tube of lipstick from one of them and we plastered bright red across our lips, some of the less experienced among us running a bit outside the lip-line — including me of course, looking a lot more like Cruella de Vil than Terry Lynn Huntingdon. Then, attempting to escape down the hall and make a b-line for the two-block walk into town to share our favored banana splits — slices of ripe bananas on the sid...
Weekly Contest #11
One day in late May, 1953, several of my friends and I disappeared into the bathroom after the last bell rang. I borrowed a tube of lipstick from one of them and we plastered bright red across our lips, some of the less experienced among us running a bit outside the lip-line — including me of course, looking a lot more like Cruella de Ville than Terry Lynn Huntingdon. Then, attempting to escape down the hall and make a b-line for the two block walk into town to share our favored banana splits — slices of ripe bananas on the sides, one scoo...
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