Holy crap. That story delivered to 6 and 7 year olds! Wow!

Don’t put anything in your mouth that you picked up from the ground. Remember the story of that boy, Tommy Bates, age 7, who ate a piece of popcorn from the ground that a baby octopus had crawled into. And the octopus grew and grew inside his stomach until it exploded, and he died.
My Great Grandmother Was the Creepiest Person I’ve Ever Known
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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Arpad Nagy
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Aug 31, 2024
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Holy crap. That story delivered to 6 and 7 year olds! Wow!
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Shortlisted for 2024 Northwind Writing Award in NF/Fiction. New owner of First Line Fiction. Editor @ The Memoirist, AoE, Book Cafe, Short Place, Kitchen Tales.
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