What Maurice Wrote in the Red Book

 First Day ✹

I am MAURICE, A true Howler.

 Sneaky said I should write in this book. See we found it on a bench in Montana.

 It was at a  train station in the morning.

Sneaky showed me how to write too.

We don’t know who put the red book on that bench. Maybe it was an angel?

I don’t know why he did it, if he did.

Sue was trying to cheer me up.

Maybe that’s why.

I don’t understand all the stuff that has happened to me and Joe and Sneaky.

It’s like a story!

I don’t know what allegory means. Maybe I am supposed to find out?

Sneaky is my best friend. She looks out for me and helps me.

I’m very sorry for all the things that happened with the bands.

I could say I never knew any better, but that is an excuse.

She explained what an excuse is.

I love RALPH!

It would be lame not to love Ralph.

But it was Sneaky who licked my wounds in the train car way back when all of this started, before I ever had a friend.

People used to hide from me.