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by Tim Jones-Yelvington
Britney the master skipper raps her stone against the rock and says, "Whoever skips a dozen stones fastest gets the purple thermos." Janet fingers her zipper, knowing she is doomed and thinking purple would've looked so pretty with her yellow lunch pail. Britney's yellow pigtails bob in time with the buoys as she turns her back and traces a line in the sand. "Whoever crosses this line is out of bounds." Janet throws the purple thermos on the ground and crushes it with her boot. Later, the tide takes the purple thermos to meet the edge of the sky.
I don't think I get this one. Is it about Spears and Jackson? Possibly I am just missing references.
Either that or it's *not* Spears and Jackson and I should be reading it more literally somehow.
It wasn't about anyone specific. Just little kids being mean like mean little kids.
OK, seeing that now. There are a couple jerks between sentences that was making me look at this as metaphorical rather than scenic, I think... a plausible scenario, I'm just not sold on it in this brief format, I think.