My Cardboard Balcony

Humming by Belinda Roddie When you strike a chord in your throat and keep a melody going absolutely nowhere.

"Sand castle is two words, not one," snapped Olivia as she read her sister's essay. "Yeah, but my paper needs to be five hundred words maximum. If I make it two words, it's five hundred one." Olivia sighed. "Is your beach story so important that you have to combine words together so you can include every detail?" "Yes!" barked her sister. "You cannot tell me that my seeing two sea lions off the coast is not worth being in this essay!"