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Patti
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Patti is three days in to her new summer job as a ‘mother’s helper’ on a farm in Ohio. She is learning that what helping means in reality is different than what it sounded like in the ad. In addition to her main duty, caring for their five year old daughter (who is an asshole), her bosses expect Patti to do farm chores. Yesterday they taught her how to muck out horse stalls. Today, it was collecting eggs. She heard talk of baling hay later in the week. She wonders why they didn’t also advertise for a farmer’s helper. Before her arrival, Patti’s bedroom was the cat-breeding room. It still is. At the foot of her bed is a wall of wire cages, four wide by four high, full of manx cats, a social and gregarious breed she has been told. Their mewling makes it impossible to sleep. She is planning her escape. And theirs.
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(Inspired by Lynda Barry and her (totally freaking amazing) Writing the Unthinkable workshop at the Omega Institute.)