SWEAT: Global Warming in a Small Town & other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest

by Mike Palecek

  They made it up.

  They wanted a baby so bad they just talked themselves into being pregnant.

  They talked about it to themselves and then to other people and then when they had to have it, ‘cause it was time.

  And then they couldn’t have it go to school ‘cause there wasn’t a kid, and then they didn’t want it do die because that was way too sad.

  So they decided to have it be kidnapped.

  They thought that it would go away eventually.

  But … well you know …

  That could never happen in a small town.