Aspirined

Mavis presentable now—washed, combed, aspirined and swimming a little in Birdie’s housedress.

When the father protested that he could not possibly take the boy back home with so many visits left to make, Priscilla declared the child could rest at our place, aspirined and blanketed, and be picked up by his father at the end of the dhobi’s day.

Dressed, aspirined and hidden behind oversized sunglasses, Caitlin emerged from her front doorway into a sadistically glaring sun.

The aspirined wine still swung the world in a slow circle, from which he listened to the crickets in the silence-wrapped darkness of the backyards.

Give him some aspirined insect-powder.

Slowly, he lowered the flowers back into the vase and the aspirined water.