#pink peg

[markagorman]

Peg

[buzzquotes-blog]

Peeling shoulders were trophies of the beach. Sunburn was healthy because it replaced old skin leaving you smooth and new as a baby. He told me I would grow bigger faster, like a snake shedding its skin, as I squirmed in bed unable to sleep. Those burnt-back nights I’d stay up late playing Life with my sister. She alone had read the fine print on the board game’s inside cover and knew all the rules (and how, as banker, to gracefully break them). She filled red convertible with pink pegs leaving blue husband waiting in white mansion on green hill where her gold path inexorably led.