“You don’t really want to go camping, do you?”
“I don’t,” I agreed.
“Insects find me highly attractive!
All the ones that bite.”
“I highly doubt all insects are attracted to you.”
“Just the biting ones.”
I corrected her.
“When I was a kid, the tooth fairy came
and bit me with my own teeth”
“That doesn’t make any sense,”
she scoffed.
“And what does that have to do with camping?”
“I’d imagine the tooth fairy doesn’t want
to go camping either,”
I said.
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Ryan Quinn Flanagan
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Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has been published both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Red Fez, Evergreen Review, International Times, Himalaya Diary, Huffington Post, Blue Collar Review, GloMag, and The Oklahoma Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the TransCanada in his big blacked out truck.
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