Sunday, February 24, 2013

Story #37: A pie for a pie


She rented out the bottom floor of a two-story house previously owned by prominent silent film actress Gloria Swanson. What used to be a rec room for her landlord’s two sons—20-something deadbeat boys with a penchant for pot and an enjoyment for loud arguments with their father—was now her home. For Valentine’s Day, she baked the three men a rather ordinary-looking apple pie, and they thanked her repeatedly. In return, one of the laziest sons baked a huge and gorgeous blueberry pie with cutouts of hearts and arrows in the top crust and proudly handed it to her.

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