Mark Taylor

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Daily story, August 18, 2025

There were six eggs and seven people, so of course Janet wasn’t going to have one. She was cooking, after all. If someone else had been cooking, of course Janet would have volunteered to go without, but it wouldn’t be fair to ask. As she plated up she remembered that Mike didn’t like eggs. But perhaps he would want his anyway, if he was hungry.