Dirt-y Stories
“Do you love me?” he said.
“I’m not so sure,” she said.
Tony’s poison garden started as a joke when a patch of wild hemlock sprouted in the backyard. To that he added castor bean, source of the poison ricin, and hellebore, whose roots were an early form of chemical warfare. But when Sarah complained about the barking dog next door and found it dead in the driveway the next day, she realized Tony’s joke had gone too far. Still, she couldn’t help but wonder who else might be in need of a hemlock sandwich as long as Tony was taking orders.
Amy woke up on Thursday morning with a hangover and the dim realization that her garden column was due in a few hours. If she didn’t get it turned in on time, Hank would sack her for sure. For years she’d been skating by on very little actual horticultural expertise and not much wit or insight. Then it hit her. The realization that comes to every nonfiction writer eventually: fiction. She could just make it up. Her editor would never know. After two cups of coffee and an Advil, she was at her computer, racing against her deadline.
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