Tin, Straw, and Fur
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Gotham is no Fawcett. For one, the skyline’s legendary, alleyways notorious, and all is damp, gritty, seething. It’s a city that wakes at sundown. Meanwhile, a good boy like Billy Batson is in his soft pajamas by the time the lawns gets dewy in Fawcett, faint milk mustache ringing his upper lip, nodding off to nighttime podcasts.
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- Part 1 of Tin, Straw, and Fur
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The fence gives after a single push. Billy holds the rusted gate open, and Freddy, slow and resentful, takes one step at a time, beaten sneakers crushing dirt mounds underfoot. A full week with these crutches and Freddy has yet to grow any love for them. He probably never will. Billy keeps saying it’s better than a wheelchair or a hospital cot, and it would have been an easily won argument if there didn’t exist a single name that blew it all out of the water.
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- Part 2 of Tin, Straw, and Fur
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Billy watches Mary hold a pearl necklace to Mommy’s collarbone, parting her painted lips in thought, the reflection on the vanity mirror a pretty echoing twin. Her cheeks are flush-red, heels of apples. Billy lies on the carpet at her feet, listening as she hums a song he doesn’t recognize. This way he can pretend it’s really Mommy, and not just Mary in their dead mother’s body.
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- Part 3 of Tin, Straw, and Fur