[me] Often I read here, never have I written (I think). This literally jumped in my head. [/me]
"You can't have two younger siblings," she said, flipping her hair out of her eyes. He'd been watching her do that for years. It was like scratching an itch that never stopped itching, watching her hair flip away from her face like that, and then fall back to exactly the same position. He wondered how she knew when it was time to flip it again, since it never stayed away for longer than it took gravity to reassert itself. "It's wrong."
"It's not wrong," he whipped back, more defensively than he'd meant. Dammit, this wasn't going at all the way he'd planned. "It's wrong to keep people from having kids."
"Your parents can only have two. My parents only had two, me and my younger sister. That's all we'll ever have, they say. Marcie hates it. She doesn't want to be the youngest."
"Well, I've got two. I've got a baby brother, now."
"You're weird," she said. She flipped her hair again, and walked away. Well, that's it, he thought.
Almost as an afterthought, he sent a message to her mom, making it look like an accident. "Marcie--LOVED it last night. Don't tell your sister, though, okay?" If he knew families--and if anyone did, he did--there would be interesting times at her house.
Cervantes published "La Galatea" in 1585, 20 years before the first part of "Don Quijote." Every time he put pen to paper after that, he declared his intention to write the conclusion to "La Galatea." He died in 1616, having changed the course of literature forever, but without ever finishing his first literary work.
Sean, what's it like to have your town suddenly overrun by academic medievalists?
As an unofficial representative of Kalamazoo, I would just like to say that anyone who rows a replica Viking ship on that tiny pond on Western's campus is welcome in my city. Or who spends 900 hours making a wooden cart. Or who has ever referred to themselves as "fanatically obsessed" about archaic spelling systems. Welcome, all, and know yourselves among friends.
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