a possum walking upright.
The sight caused her
to clutch her pearls
and wet her pants.
This type of phobia
was not unique to
the Register women, for
even Arnold Schwarzenegger once
ran screaming from Bakersfield
after seeing an upright
something or other. Needless
to mention, poor Arnold
was never the same
afterwards. Residents of Bakersfield
have all but forgotten
the incident, but when
the upright stoats arrived
, armed and laser focused
(as you would expect),
their complete takeover of