“I could cook

anything

to perfection. Literally anything,” Tuck said, with his hand clasped brazenly around a kitchen knife, lightly swinging it to punctuate his speech.



“You

couldn’t.

Nobody’s

    

The evening air felt like a thicket of sweat - fitting, because I was already a sweaty mess. Such was this summer’s way, with days reaching degrees you’d find in a microwave. Honest to god, it would’ve been the worst thing, had I not been expecting it. Forecasts had my back there.



    

I popped open my laptop a

8/6/20XX



    

It’s 2 in the morning. Hardly an hour for any delivery, much less any prime cooking. Every place in the area is almost certainly shutting its doors as I write this. I shouldn’t even be awake at this point, I’ve got like…an essay due in two days, hell. But, alas.




  &n

    

This is it. Today’s the day I fess up to that cute guy in my class. To

him.




    

I’ve been stuck watching him for too long. Him and his plush thighs, him and his little bit of paunch, him and his growing ass - all of it. I’ve waited on the sidelines for just too

    

“Honey, I’m home!~”, Simon Whittaker chirped upon entering his house, ready to settle in for the night with his positively lovely wife Wren. He kept up a smile and the pep in his step, but time just passed. The air was practically dead, save for the natural ambience of the house itself. No sign of Wren’s voice, no sign of Wren, nothing.



   &

    

“So, what’ll it be today,

Doctor~?

” Clancy said, looking to his

wife

with a sly grin, knowing just which gears were turning in her pretty little head - and knowing that he’d love to play along.



    

Once, there was a kingdom by the name of Spickenspan. By humble coincidence - or via self-fulfilling prophecy, perhaps - the kingdom just so happened to be a very clean and pleasing place. The streets were clean, the residents were clean - even the public restrooms, via meticulous effort, were clean. Everything and everyone was clean, and no one exemplified this more than the clean Queen Maribelle, who ruled over the land with an iron broom. From her head down to her heels, she was clean as a wh