Granny and Pappy loved words.

'The coruscations off the lake,'� he said; 'glittered in the gloaming,'� she finished.

But when Pappy compared Granny to a summer's dray, and refused to recant, there was only one word to describe his perfidious superbity.

'Piss off,'� said Granny.

'That's two words,'� muttered Pappy.


© Mark Carew 1999

First published in Connections Magazine's Mini-Saga anthology. A mini-saga is a story of exactly 50 words.

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