Sunday, November 18, 2018

Earlobe, Confetti, Soap


Confetti woven in her hair and Bae’s vicious words stuck in her ears as she closed the bathroom door. Bae - better Bae than Grandma Beatrice, better cool than dried out stool as she liked to say. So of course on her 70th birthday, a bellybutton piercing. Earlobes just weren’t cool enough.

And also as she liked to say, no risk was too big, no molehill too tall, for her totally pathetic and skittish granddaughter.

I’ll show her.

Soap and iodine to disinfect and prep the area, ice cube to get the nub hard, and the needle… Ready?… ready??… Ready. And…

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