For the sixth time since we read Aesop’s Fable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” Derek Winstrop stood in the center of our elementary school playground during lunch and said he was going to kill himself.
MY BROTHER, THE POMEGRANATE TREE by Jonathan Phillips

It was a fir tree that exacted the toll
BLANK CANVAS by Jonathan Phillips

Drip, Drip. Drip, Drip.