Monday, January 12, 2026

Tickle

 

 It was the tiniest tickling on the bottom of her foot, not all the time, just every once in a while.

And it only happened when she was in the shower, like something was reaching up from under the slats of the teak shower mat.

Of course, that was crazy. Nothing could live under there.

Her dog glared at the shower mat off and on all day, but she had told him to “leave it alone”, so he did, choosing instead to unroll the toilet paper, cascading it through the house like unruly teenagers after a high school football game.

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