Words of a Feather

Gossipy gumption… Image by Author, created in AI. Herewith, another installment in the sordid travails of our main characters, Celia and Bucky Lee. Neither of them actually participate in this episode, which is a bit sad, but we do have a nice slice of rural America, served with a sizable side of juicy hypocrisy, via telephony. Enjoy. In exasperated desperation, mixed with a measurable degree of overly-dramatized indignation, Kay reached for her cellphone and punched a worn-out speed-dial number. Across town (which was only about two blocks), Miriam Truffletwit was quite startled when her own cellphone began weakly chirping on her desk. After all, it was after 8pm, and any good Christian in these parts knew quite well that one did not partake of modern technology at such an hour. (This was one of the many commandments that the liberal media didn’t want you to know about, as if Our Savior only had ten important things to say.) Of course, at this very juncture in our story, Miriam was…