Charming as a Verb

by Ben Philippe

She stops in the middle of the sidewalk and looks at me with a brow so furrowed it may never unwrinkle. “Thank God you’re pretty because that’s sincerely the dumbest thing I ever heard. Just smile a lot during the interview or something.”

“I don’t have to do a damn thing except stay Black, pay my taxes, and die, honey.”

All children are charming as an adjective, but you’re charming as a verb.