Words without Audience
"...The frog-prince said to the princess, 'I am sorry my dear, but I cannot let you kiss me. Not until I have proven I can make it on my own.' And though the princess would have waited were he trying, the frog-prince could never bring himself to eat a fly. And the princess married a real prince. And the frog died of starvation."
Grandpa's hands were rough from many years of paper-cuts, his tongue smooth from the flow of all the words. He was meticulously groomed and sharply trimmed, save for the thumbnail on his left hand. It was for peeling oranges, he said. Why not use a knife, we said. Because one can lose a knife, he said, but if he ever lost his thumb, then he wouldn't have much use for oranges anyway.
-A Grimm Pocket
Grandpa's hands were rough from many years of paper-cuts, his tongue smooth from the flow of all the words. He was meticulously groomed and sharply trimmed, save for the thumbnail on his left hand. It was for peeling oranges, he said. Why not use a knife, we said. Because one can lose a knife, he said, but if he ever lost his thumb, then he wouldn't have much use for oranges anyway.
-A Grimm Pocket