by Nathan Coppedge/Eucaleh Terrapin
A short-short story inspired by a posting at The Blue Moon Review, which I remember in foggy detail.
The boy asked the man what the girl was doing, so the man asked the woman. Then the woman asked the girl. The girl said she was doing nothing, but when the woman told the man and the man told the boy, the boy was sure she was hiding something.
So the boy told the man what he thought the girl knew, and the man thought it was a joke, so he told it to the woman, and the woman laughed out loud. But when the woman told it to th egirl, the girl didn't think it was a joke at all.
So the girl thought: "What is it that that boy knows that he can say something true that sounds like a joke?"
And she asked the woman, and the woman was very serious.
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