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A Married Couple of Swans Were Expecting Their First Cygnet
Pair with Say My Name by Destiny’s Child
A married couple of swans were expecting their first cygnet. They built a nest in front of the flatscreen TV in the living where the pen sat on the egg and binged on Netflix. When the cob was not at work doing search engine optimization for a prominent real estate firm in Beverly Hills, he watched with her. The day before the egg hatched they began watching a 24-part series on the second world war. They both liked it but did not get far into before the cygnet announced its arrival. It was a baby boy with a bright red beak and pronounced black nostrils. That inspired the cob to say: “Why don’t we name him Adolf Hitler? He seems like a guy going places.” “That is a good idea,” said the pen, “so far, I like him.” Little Adolf always had trouble making friends, and when he was a sophomore in high school, a group of llamas beat him up behind the gym. After that, he ran for student president on a platform of ethnic cleansing of saliva-challenged mammals. He didn’t win, but later he became attorney general in Georgia.
Regitze Ladekarl has re-emerged as a raconteur after a long, successful career elsewhere. She crafts universal tales from everyday life with an honest and witty pen. Besides working on a forthcoming novel, she sharpens her voice with personal essays, flash fiction, and method writing here on Medium.
