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Saturday's Storyteller: "The kitten and the raptor are actually very closely related, if you think about it."

by Belinda Roddie "The kitten and the raptor are actually very closely related, if you think about it." Hannah wrinkled her nose. She had hardly touched the mixed greens on her plate, the water barely making a ripple in its tall glass. "I don't see how." I flexed my fingers as if I had claws, then chomped at thin air. I didn't really care that the elderly couple sitting across from our booth turned to stare at me once they heard the loud clicking of my teeth. I did like how it made Hannah laugh, though. "Okay, you win, Mister Raptor. Do that raptor squeak that Alan keeps talking about." I did. The old man coughed loudly, as if his throat clearing would put an end to the presumed nonsense. But Hannah giggled and clapped her hands. "Bravo. I knew I had it in you." "So what were you planning on doing after this?" I asked, returning my attention to my half-eaten burger, shreds of cheese sadly drooping from its torn ses

Today's OneWord: Speak

My dog wouldn't speak when I told her to speak. I tried everything. Shakespeare, Browning, Lord Byron. She didn't think highly of the poets. Unless said poet clawed out of his grave and brought a chewy bone with him. So I stuck to basic requests. A bark or something. Anything in the canine language. She just rolled over and waited for me to rub her belly. Not a single sound from her throat.