My entry for Susanna Hill's "The 1st Annual Valentiny Writing Contest"
Grumpy, Groany, Grouchy, Growl
by Kathleen Higgins 2016
"Go to your room Mikey."
"You don't love me!" Mikey grouched
"I love you but sometimes that's what mommies do
when they love you."
when they love you."
Mickey stomped
and stormed into his room and slipped
under the edge of his blue blankety world.
under the edge of his blue blankety world.
"Hello? Anyone home?"
"Mommy won't let me do what I want to do. Mommy doesn't
love me!" groaned Mikey
Daddy swooped under the blue blankety world.
"Love
is a funny thing." Daddy said, "My mommy wouldn't let me do
what I wanted to do.
Sometimes I sat in a corner for almost forever. "
what I wanted to do.
Sometimes I sat in a corner for almost forever. "
"Grandma didn't love you either!" griped Mikey
"She loved me but sometimes that's what people do
when they love you"
when they love you"
"I hear voices but I can't see anyone?"
"Popa slithered under the blue, blankety world."
"Once
my brother sat on my head," Popa said,
"he wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do "
"he wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do "
"That's really mean. He didn't love you." grumbled
Mikey.
"He
loved me but sometimes that's what people do
when they love you"
"Is your blanket talking, Mikey?"
"Go away, Mommy!" growled Mikey
"We
are discussing love"
"We are talking about doing things we shouldn't do."
Three cookies silently slid under Mikey's blue blankety
world.
Because sometimes that's what Mommies do
when they love you.
