The Fat And The Thin Of It

by Julie Croft

hunched and huddled against the cold, towards their respective cars. Jill accompanied Jackie to hers, and before she shut the car door, she said in a small, frightened voice, “Jill, what are we going to do now?”

  “Well, I don’t know about you,” Jill answered as she pulled her coat tightly around her and stamped her feet. “But I’m heading home for a nice, long soak in a bubble-bath to thaw out.”

  “No,” Jackie said with a slight shake of her head. “I mean; what are we going to do with our lives?”

  “Ah,” that was a tough one to answer, Jill had to admit, but she tried anyway. “We’ll go to pottery class on Thursday, then we’ll take it from there.”

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