title: Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives & Loves of Kitchen Utensils
author:  Prartho Sereno 
description: "The deep life and deep joy findable anywhere - if looked for with poetry's eyes - shine through this book. Its poems and paintings honor both imagination's wild freedoms and the hidden powers that can spring from any object in a moment's light-flash, once awakened by mind, heart, and senses." --Jane Hirshfield, author of <i>Nine Gates</i>
zlib_text: DYSTOPIAN GIRLS
  
  By Rodzil LaBraun
  
    
  
  _Chapter One_
  
  _Chapter Two_
  
  _Chapter Three_
  
  _Chapter Four_
  
  _Chapter Five_
  
  _Chapter Six_
  
  _Chapter Seven_
  
  _Chapter Eight_
  
  _Chapter Nine_
  
  _Chapter Ten_
  
  _Chapter Eleven_
  
  _Chapter Twelve_
  
  _Chapter Thirteen_
  
  _Chapter Fourteen_
  
  _Chapter Fifteen_
  
  _Chapter Sixteen_
  
  _Chapter Seventeen_
  
    
  
  CHAPTER ONE:
  
  I was checking all the cupboards in the recently remodeled kitchen when I
  heard a ruckus in the backyard. It was almost dark, much later in the day than
  I usually went foraging. My desire for some kind of processed pastry drove me
  out of my comfort zone this evening. Leaning over the stainless-steel kitchen
  sink I peered out the double pane window in search of what may have created
  the disturbance. I saw nothing and heard even less, so after a minute of
  holding my breath I figured it must have been a rodent or the like.
  
  This classy contemporary kitchen had evidently been picked through previously.
  The solid oak doors and drawers were alrea