Saturday's Storyteller: "See, I told you marshmallows made efficient bullets!"
by Belinda Roddie "See, I told you marshmallows made efficient bullets!" cried Tobias, drawing his Nerf gun from his hip and lobbing some of the sugary cylinders at my head. I swatted them away with a spare hand and went back to my book. If Toby wasn't careful, then the ants truly would come marching in. Mom didn't like sweet stuff in the house, and Tobias and my younger sister, Kerry, were always finding ways to sneak it in under her nose. How they had managed to hide an entire bag of sugar-based gelatin was beyond me. Kerry had a plastic orange and white bazooka, and she pelted Tobias with marshmallows like they were fluffy bullets hailing from a World War I soldier's machine gun. They laughed and hollered, and once they ran out of ammo, they picked up the offending food from the carpet and gobbled it down without any fear of digesting lint or feeling a psychosomatic high. They were already excitable enough as it was, and they turned to video games jus