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"Mama" had been trying to rush to get Poitevin a highly cultured teapot that would not take no for an answer. To the people outside who witnessed the tragedy, it did not really seem that the fern had actually been such a big threat to Poitevin after all. It was, de facto, quite a long time before the ensuing investigation brought to light some fascinating, personal details about the ill-starred Poitevin, which led to some intriguing discover- ies about the cataclysmic role of a certain depressed flower pot and its guppies. Poitevin's mother arranged to have her beloved flowerpot placed prominently on Poitevin's grave without the fern, which she donated to a charity flower show in an act of unparalleled selflessness. At the end of the day, Poitevin's mother had never liked the fern, and, anyway, it had withered to 
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a pitiful shadow of itself in Poitevin's absence with no one to water and re-water it. Laurence Unger graduated in 2005 from University College, Oxford, with a B.A. in Modern Languages. Recent artistic accomplish- ments include a Bronze Award for a screenplay entitled The Nose and the Nutcracker from the Houston International Film Festival and a showing in an art exhibition at Agora Gallery in New York.  |
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