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Calibration 74: Chapter Fifty-Three
Calibration 74 is a serial novel experiment, posted raw and unedited as it is written. It is recommended you start at the beginning.
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Chapter Fifty-Three
Reckless abandon and wanton disarray. Three cups of lemon juice and a dash of coal tar. This is what little boys are made of.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse is dead in the clock.
Simple Simon met a pieman, and his name was Sweeney Todd.
The farmer in the dell built a house for his wife from a pumpkin shell and left her to die alone and unloved while he ran off with Miss Muffet and the ghost of Charlotte.
Matchmaker, matchmaker, bring me a match … for I smell the blood of an Englishman.