"I Dare You To Read This"

• "I dare you to read this," I said. 
• She said, "What is it?"
• I told her it was a voodoo curse but, really it was a takeout menu from Royal Ninja House and we both knew it.
• She took the menu from me and read out loud the noodles as though they were a way to make people's skin fall off.
• Then, she read the eggrolls as though she were dooming someone to be eaten by dogs.
• Finally she got to the entrees and read them in the style of a mad voodoo priestess challenging the laws of physics with her own special brand of magic.
• Everybody was happy and drunk and neither of us were real.

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