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Fishy, Fishy

“We played Covid today.” He dipped his graham cracker in Nutella. I stopped with his milk half poured. “What’s that?” “It started as Fishy, Fishy.” I remembered the recess game where kid fish run across a field being chased by a tagging shark. “Then Alyssa said, ‘Let’s have the shark be Corona.’ And Dylan said, ‘When Corona tags you, you’re a germ and you spread it.’” “Did you get germed?” “Nah, I said I’d be a doctor. When I tagged you, you got a shot. Then you could ungerm people.” “Who won?” “I don’t know. We’re gonna play again tomorrow.”

Betsy Ellor runs the website Words Unbound Studio. When not writing she spends her time hiking and battling prehistoric mosquitoes in the woods of Massachusetts. Find Betsy on Twitter @bewordsunbound and on Instagram @betsy_ellor_words_unbound.

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