The Crowmaster
“If anything, I’m the exact polar opposite of cool. I’ve been called a lot of names in school. Geek. Dweeb. Dork. Nerd. I’ve been called them all, mostly by the same three boys.
But not “cool”. No one’s ever called me that.
And there, kneeling on the floor beside a fifty-one-year-old woman as she rummaged around in a box full of fancy-dress outfits, I don’t think I’ve ever felt more uncool in my life.
‘Look at this! I’d forgotten about this one!’ Marion chirped. She pulled out a crumpled pile of... green material and looked at it as if it were carved from solid gold.
‘What is it?’ I asked, trying to get into the spirit of things, but failing miserably. It had been a long, horrible day and I’d barely slept the night before. I didn’t want to look at costumes, I wanted to go to bed.
‘It’s a frog,’ she said, with a tone that suggested I’d have to be an idiot not to realise what the scraps of cloth were meant to be. ‘It’s Mr Froggy.’ ‘So it is.’ Marion folded the costume neatly and sat it to one side.MoreLess
But not “cool”. No one’s ever called me that.
And there, kneeling on the floor beside a fifty-one-year-old woman as she rummaged around in a box full of fancy-dress outfits, I don’t think I’ve ever felt more uncool in my life.
‘Look at this! I’d forgotten about this one!’ Marion chirped. She pulled out a crumpled pile of... green material and looked at it as if it were carved from solid gold.
‘What is it?’ I asked, trying to get into the spirit of things, but failing miserably. It had been a long, horrible day and I’d barely slept the night before. I didn’t want to look at costumes, I wanted to go to bed.
‘It’s a frog,’ she said, with a tone that suggested I’d have to be an idiot not to realise what the scraps of cloth were meant to be. ‘It’s Mr Froggy.’ ‘So it is.’ Marion folded the costume neatly and sat it to one side.MoreLess
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