Michael Malone - Weebly

friend to a genetic mechanism that had pulled the switch
on the dam and let loose a lake of hormones in which
Joy now floated placidly but inexorably to a destiny that
in Polly still elicited a defiant "Oh, vomit!"
The two girls nodded politely at Prudence Lattice in
her lilac dress as she shook the lock on her Tea Shoppe
"to be sure." They passed the pharmacy and the
Dingley Day, where through the broken window they
saw Mr. Hayes twisting his hair as he read. They
passed the cream brick building where both Dr. Scaper
and the two Mr. Abernathy lawyers had their offices.
Then, just as they reached the post office, Polly
wheeled around, yelled, and flung a flamboyant wave at
Luke Packer half a block behind them. Caught off
guard, his composure deserting him, his body broke
loose and hurled him through the door of Sammy
Smalter's pharmacy. Joy laughed without looking back.
Around the circle, beyond old Town Hall and next
to the older but newly painted First Congregational
Church, was George Webster Dixwell Library. The
dungareed girls climbed its smoothed stone steps, Joy
pausing to rest on the way, and interrupted Sidney