Blue Ribbon Blues (2013)
“She passed the long tables of prize-winning vegetables and preserves. She didn’t go anywhere near the goat show tent. She ended up spending all of her money on the bumper cars.
That night she stopped by her father’s office. It was empty. She started up his computer. When she came to a blank screen, she began to type: The girl and her goat, Pepperoni Pepperday, worked very hard. They really did. But the girl’s brother painted Pepperoni with blue stripes. And so the girl could not enter the show. It was very sad.
The End She turned off the computer and went to bed.
Next morning Tooter went to search for eggs. Feeling around in the darkness of the chicken coop, she heard a voice in the barnyard. Jack Hafer’s. He was calling her name.
She knew why he was here. He had come to show off the blue ribbon he’d won. To wave it in her face. Who needed that? She crouched in the shadows of the coop.
But then Jack was in the doorway, peering in. “Tooter? You there?”
“No,” she said.
“I can’t see you.
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