Molly sketched a
smile-girl on the whitest sheet of paper she could find. She drew a big grin on the smile-girl, and
then penciled two dark and giant hands that were bigger. In fact, the two giant hands were bigger than
the smile-girl’s body.
Molly then invented a
story for the smile-girl. In the story,
the smile-girl liked dollar bills, but didn’t like wolves. She played in rain and soft sand and slept
under a blanket patterned with giraffes.
Sometimes, the smile-girl’s hands became so heavy she dragged them
around like two dead cows. And the
smile-girl never had to wash dishes because she always broke them. And she couldn’t write her name. When the smile-girl clapped, the townspeople
ran for home because they imagined a terrible thunderstorm.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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