by MAX SPARBER
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Nannie Doss set out to bake And giggled at the thing she’d make Her famous apple and prune pie And she would serve it, by and by She made water and butter boil And stirred in flour and chicken oil And laid it out and rolled with care And placed it in the pie tin there And in a bowl and with a spoon She stirred the apple, spice, and prune And when the filling was proper pied She added in rodenticide Nannie Doss had insured kin And each one Nannie would do in For each one Nannie cooked a pie And she would serve it, by and by |
Max Sparber is a playwright and author of speculative fiction who currently calls Omaha, NE, his home. His work has been anthologized in "The Best of Strange Horizons: Year One" and "People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy."
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