A Matter of Taste

John Douglas Porter
Fictitious
6 min readNov 26, 2021

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There’s no accounting for it.

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Wearing a mustard yellow bathrobe, Angelica sat at a bubblegum pink vanity, looked at her scrumptious reflection in the mirror, and — while brushing her long, straight, licorice black hair — chanted hungrily.

“Bay-guls, cup-cakes, Day-nish pay-stree.”

She looked down at the hair that fell over her shoulders, then brushed and chanted again.

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John Douglas Porter
Fictitious

John Porter manages his family’s cattle ranch in California, where he also writes screenplays, essays, and stories.