My Four Fathers By Mia Griffiths – aged 6

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My name is Mia and I have four dads.  My best dad is called Jonno Mofo Griffiths.  He lives with me in Newport.  He’s a rock star. 

He says I have a good imagination but mum says we talk shit.

 My worst dad is in America, his name is Mike Hall.  He’s a con man.  He sold my DS, my Bratz dolls, my Polly Pockets and my Littlest Pet Shop figures on ebay.  And he didn’t give me a cent.  He lives in a maximum security jail in Nevada.

I have a dad in Africa called Mbumbo Mumthungo.  He’s a ranger at a game reserve in Botswana.  He has a pet elephant called Bob.

 My last dad, Shwami Savati, lives in India.  He works at a call centre in Banagalore.  He rings us every night at dinner time.  It’s really annoying.

 You may ask, how is it that I have four fathers.  I don’t understand how it works, I’m only six.

 I have sixteen half sisters, and most of their names rhyme; Mary-Lou and Vindaloo, Pikachu and Coo Ca Choo.  To name but a few.

 I’ve asked my dad, Jonno Mofo, to write a song about them.  But he’s too busy.

 In case you’re wondering, one of my dads did help me write this story.  Can you guess which one?

 The End

Promises and Promiscuity (Part 1)

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It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that a single woman, lacking a good fortune must be in want of a husband.
I like to think differently.
You have no doubt heard of my sister, Elizabeth Bennett. Her life was immortalised by the great “novelist” Jane Austin, and I was made a minor character in her tale. Elizabeth’s story fit nicely with the themes Miss Austen wanted to portray; mine did not, and so I was grossly misrepresented.
I am Lydia, the youngest of Elizabeth’s sisters – but five and ten years old at the start of her narrative – and often described by our father as the silliest young woman in all of England. But I know things that my sisters will never know and I have known pleasures that Miss Austen could only dream of.
And as for our father, who is he to call anyone silly? To suddenly realise, at fifty years of age, that he will lose his property to the despicable Mr Collins – leaving his many daughters penniless – due to his lack of Y chromosomes and forward planning – are hardly the actions of a sensible man. [Read more...]