I preferred to call it a visit from Mr. Grimsby, who I pictured as a stretchy Victorian gentleman with overflowing sideburns and a meerschaum pipe.
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Rolli is a Canadian author, cartoonist, and songwriter. He’s the author of many acclaimed books for adults and children, including Kabungo and The Sea-Wave. Rolli’s fiction, poetry, essays, cartoons, and drawings are staples of The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The Walrus, and other top outlets. Visit Rolli’s website (rollistuff.com) and follow him on Twitter at @rolliwrites.
Dirty Work
As I typed out a series of lewd fruit puns—one of them involving blueberries, I’m almost certain—I heard footsteps coming down the hall.