The debate centered around the definition of “hippy.” There was much eye rolling. And then a girl said “as if.” And a new debate started up.

They undressed. You have old looking feet, she said, surprised. I’m young, he protested. Me too, she replied. And he didn’t have a come back

The kids loved this picnic bench. They’d get stoned and talk philosophy and fart jokes and how their futures wouldn’t suck. But then it did.

He lay on the couch, a hirsute plumber’s butt rising out of his low rise jeans, and she came down the stairs and took it in and wondered why

She insisted it was a dragon but no one believed her until she grew up and went on TV and told her story and now the world is on her side.