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Literature
Big Candy "Are you ready yet?" Michael Hanes looked up the stairs of his home, his impatience growing in the silence that followed his call. "Are you ready yet?" he repeated, his voice rising in volume. "I’m ready, keep your shirt on." His sister Carrie suddenly appeared at the top of the stairs. She was wearing a bodysuit in vibrant colors of pink and white. White gauntlets covered her hands and a plastic helmet was tucked under her arm. "Well, what’re you supposed to be?" Michael asked. "A Power Ranger. What’d you think?" she replied, her face twisted into a decidedly unheroic grimace. "We were supposed to be out a half-hour ago," he growled. Carrie struck a theatric, come-hither pose. It looked ridiculous on her skinny, eight-year-old frame. "You can’t rush perfection," she intoned. Her fresh, round face formed into a smirk. "It’s not like you have anyplace to go tonight anyway." Michael folded his arms across his chest and began to tap his foot on the carpet. Carrie sighed
