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    The Cow
    The Cow
    The Cow
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    The Cow

    By M. Lanen-de Vries

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    Why? Is a much heard question these days. In this gathering of short stories the question is nearly never answered in a way that makes sense. Why can't you ask Mitzie anything when your mouth is still full? Why are things to be expected when Eve is around? Why is there a giraffe in Alices' bathtub? Find out!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM. Lanen-de Vries
    Release dateAug 19, 2024
    ISBN9798227182142
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      The Cow - M. Lanen-de Vries

      Contents

      The Final Train  2

      The Wedding  12

      The Insurance Agent 19

      The Boardgame 30

      The Twat 37

      The Cow 49

      Mitzie 68

      Polly And The Toad 75

      It Started With A Giraffe 83

      Scare 105

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      The Final Train

      The Wedding

      The Insurance Agent

      The Boardgame

      The Twat

      The Cow

      Mitzie

      Polly And The Toad

      It Started With A Giraffe

      Scare

      The Final Train

      ‘Wendy, come on! This way we’ll never catch it!’ Richard panted while running. Wendy was having a fight with her handbag. It was strapped around Richard’s bike.

      ‘It will fall off on our way there!’ she’d cried out. Wendy was the type of girl to want to push an elephant in a thimble, something that Richard thought be highly amusing. Not when it was supposed to dangle from his bike though.

      ‘I’ve nearly untied it!’ cried Wendy. She was lying. It was a Gordiane knot she’d performed there, with a temple through a hoop, which got engaged to a necklace (a present from Richard) which she couldn’t untie either.

      ‘I’ll go check in!’ Richard yelled, frustrated. He knew it would be knightly to offer to untie the blasted knot, but it was the final train, or else they wouldn’t make it in time to the concert to which Richard had tickets, which had cost him quite some effort to get. He would be better off warming up the tiles at the station walking circles, thank you very much. Useful? Neh. But it was more constructive than being with Wendy with his current mood. He just knew he would say unkind things. The shriekish sounding wheeps she would uncover would massively annoy him, he didn’t feel like it now. Richard heard the dinging sounds of the crossing gates closing. Still no sign of Wendy.

      ‘Wendy!’ Richard cried in agony.

      Wendy kept on pulling the knot to untie, until finally the knot caved and so she arrived on the platform just in time, panting like an elderly.

      ‘Hehe finally’, she tried to catch her breath.

      ‘Everything still in there?’ Richard asked her on a sarcastic tone.

      ‘Yes, thank you. Even your good mood is in there’, she smiled. The train came to a stop with a gush of wind and a massivelu unpleasant shriek. Wendy’s hair blew over her shoulders and in her face.

      ‘Where do you want to sit?’

      ‘Still a gentleman’, Wendy thought.

      ‘At the window?’ she proposed.

      Richard kept quiet, just sat down.

      ‘What’s wrong? We made it, didn’t we?’ Wendy was still trying to

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