This tale has it’s origins in an assignment for one of David Pettigrew’s Creative Writing Classes.

The given topic was “Sibling Rivalry”.

This is a revised and expanded version of the original.

My friend Mana is correct. If I ‘edit’ my work, it expands, never shrinks!

The CURSE of loquaciousness. (Try saying that word with wobbly dentures.)

This is an adult story.

I offer my apologies here to all my Italian friends.

(2,300 words, 11 minutes)