The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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Up until now the only advantages Zeke saw to being an adult was that they got to make all the rules without having to go to school. He was told time and again, that his mom and dad did, indeed, go to school when they were required to a long time ago. Zeke put that idea on hold, as it was a very convenient argument today, with no means of verification open to him.

“If I act like an adult, do I get a say so in what goes on around here?”

Mom grabbed Zeke under the arms, picked him up and gave him a big kiss on the cheek and an interminable cuddle. She said; “I’m going to miss having you around here all day. I won’t know what to do with myself. I’ll have to have another baby.”

“What a horrible thing to say,” he thought, as he acted appropriately, pretending some degree of understanding, by putting his arms around his mother and sloppily kissing her. As she wiped her face with her perennial handkerchief, he thought; “She’s planning to replace me already.”

Zeke ate his breakfast and dressed for the occasion, brown cuffed baggy long pants and a white long sleeved button up shirt, topped off with a spiffy blayite bow tie. Mom was waiting for him in the kitchen, took his hand silently and together they were off. Down two flights of stairs they went, to the corner