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Sex And Candy, Wednesday, Second Period

Cindy had left a note on the classroom door telling the students to head up to the Danger Shop. As the students arrived, they would see that it had been programmed to look like a beautiful garden. A closer examination would show that everything in the garden was edible--more than simply edible, even. Much of it was candy. Spun-sugar flowers decorated the path. The bark of the trees might be made of candied peppermint, or peanut brittle, or simple chocolate. Even the 'dirt' was made of crumbled cookie pieces, with gummy worms burrowing through. Colorful rocks were little pieces of hard candy and the weeping willow dangled branches of thin caramel over the path. The apple tree was growing candy apples, of every different variety, and the tiny lemon tree gushed lemonade when the bark was cut.

Today, class was held in a garden full of ~~moddable~~ candy and treats.

A really sharp observer might notice that there was no sign of Cindy.

[~~Please wait for~~ OCD up]

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Yep, Claudia totally called that one. She might actually have to thank Captain Hook.

"I'm Claudia Donovan," she said. "I guess I'm a senior, now? And, uh. I don't know how much it counts, but I loved the stories about Matthew and Maria Looney. They're people from the moon." That made them fairy tale-ish, right?

"I don't think I've heard of those," Cindy said, making a mental note to look up both the books and if they were Fables or had Homeworlds. It never hurt to check. "What about them makes them you love them so much?"

Mostly, that they were the books her brother read to her before bed when she was little.

"They're goofy, you know? It's all this big parallel to NASA's space exploration, only instead it's moon people wondering what they might find on Earth."

"Did the books go into any detail about the any creatures or tales of folklore these moon-people had?" The books didn't really sound much like fairy tales, but Cindy wasn't going to be too strict about definitions. That was next week; these week, she was far more interested in what interested her students.

"They definitely had some weird ideas about what might be on Earth," Claudia offered. She was pretty sure they didn't count as fairy tales, too, but well, she grew up immersed in physics. Stories about magical creatures didn't really fit into that.

Cindy smiled briefly. Fairy tales or not, these books sounded adorable. "Do you remember any of those wild ideas they had?"

Claudia ~~handwavily~~ described some of the odder ideas -- that sounded a lot like some ideas people had in the sixties about Martians or the like. ~~Unfortunately, her mun couldn't get specific as she hadn't read the books in, like, 20 years.~~

~~Toooootally fair!~~

Cindy chuckled a little and nodded. "You know, I can't help but wonder if the are any allegories in there anyway--say, about race or political ideology or the like. The 60's were a turbulent time and children's stories have long since been a place for people to address certain issues. What were these called again? I'll have to look them up."

"Most of them start with 'Matthew Looney'. They've probably got 'em in the library."

"I'll keep an eye out for them," Cindy promised. "Thank you, Claudia."

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