Kelly, Just Like Me

            Kelly came out a tadpole in a green pond. All the tadpoles swam in contented circles.

            Kelly became a frog and pulled herself onto land. She learned to catch flies with her tongue and listened at night to the gravelly croaks of bullfrogs.

            Kelly thought of the green pond when she saw two mother frogs fight over a place to lay their eggs.

            Kelly gave in one night to a bullfrog.

            Kelly liked to swim, closing her eyes on the surface of the water. But soon she was filling with eggs and fighting for a laying spot of her own.