This thumbtack that is accidentally plastic instead of metal

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The Odd Duck

Once upon a time, there lived a slightly unhappy couple in a slightly unhappy town. Nothing was particularly wrong in their lives, but they weren't where and who they had expected to be, and so their relationship was often a brittle and uncertain thing. The wife had chestnut brown hair and brown eyes, while the husband had blonde hair and brown eyes. I bring this up to explain why, when their child was born with blue eyes, it sparked the argument that finally split their marriage apart. The hus

I work at a national park you’ve never heard of. We aren’t allowed to acknowledge the doors in the canyon walls

There are doors on the sides of the canyon walls.  You don't open those doors. You don't pay them too much attention. But twice a month, when the moon is cut perfectly in half, you do go lock those doors. “Ah, I get it,” I said my first week stationed at the park. “*Initiation*. I'm the new guy. Your egos demand some benign rite of passage before I'm allowed to make friends with you all.” My chief ranger didn't smile. She didn't even blink. I held up my arms in surrender. “It’s fine. Really.