Two Headed Horse Tails

Meredith Has a Vert Thumb

Blades that don’t sleep

I’m Meredith, a manic lawnmower; I use only green nail scissors.

There’s a competition going on in my garden. Each morning, the blades of grass gather and sing together, “Mirror, mirror on the pergola, who’s the greenest of them all?”

As one of Ambleside’s Presiding “Impeccables”, I know I’m a walking contradiction.

With curled blackening toenails, long enough to house a sea-slug, and cheek and lip hair breadthy enough that small boys won’t look at me. And I stink!

I don’t care. I’m not the influencer, my garden is.

Was.

When I went French last year, everybody in town started seeding and mowing “à la française.” But Evil Carla moved in. They do things ‘differently’ in Riverside, she said.

I don’t give two piles of Scott’s-Turf-Builder about myself, my body-hairs, my neighbors. Carla can have Riverside, the rest their FrancoFrogs! I just comb snarls on my genoux fatigués on the tender head of my bébés-verts.

Their caresses sooth me. “My beloved blades, you’re the greenest of them all,” I whisper.

“Meredith?”

That’s a surprise.

“Yes, Carla?”

“You’ve such a beautiful garden. Could you come with me to Riverside? Maybe you could help the ‘Impeccables’ there?”

This story was co-written by Fox Kerry and Smillew Rahcuef.

We call the concept the Two Headed Horse Tails.

As Fox describes it, Two Headed Horse Tails can be a tug of war. Two people are trying to get a tale into the corral, sometimes even against each other’s will.

Here are the rules:

• 200 words total.
• Each person gets 40 words for their paragraph/portion, where whoever starts a story would get 1,3,5 (120 words), and the second would get 2,4 (80 words).
• And they can switch back and forth as to who starts it.

What about finding yourself another horse writer (!) and giving it a try?

Would you enjoy some more tails from the two headed horse?

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