title: An Ivy League's Poison
author:  Kimberly Gifford 
description: Kimberly Gifford is a fifteen-year veteran of cosmetology, leaving the industry in 2009 to pursue her passion in writing that was first sparked by a series of poetry that reflected on her life and the lives of those around her. It was then that she came up with the story line for her series. Kimberly currently resides in Missouri with her husband and three sons. You can follow her on www.twitter.com/kegifford &amp; www.facebook.com/kegifford.
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  # Zodiac
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  -THE INMATES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Zodiac
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 9
  
  
  IT WAS THREE
  
  
  O'CLOCK.
  
  
  Debbie called the front desk and told them we'd stay another day. Big
  
  
  surprise. We took a shower, then went down and hauled our CB out of the
  
  
  Omni and checked in with the mother ship. I told them that I had an
  
  
  idea for tomorrow that I'd like to bring up with them, and made
  
  
  arrangements to be picked up at the public dock at five.
  
  
  Debbie and I had
  
  
  first run into each other when I was doing a full media splatter number
  
  
  on that toxic pond on the Sweetvale campus. It stirred up lot of
  
  
  interest among the student body, the idea that the green ivy of New
  
  
  England academe was just like algae growing on a rusty drum of
  
  
  industrial waste. They asked me to show up on campus and I went,
  
  
  foolishly expecting to be treated like a hero.
  
  
  In fact, most of
  
  
  them were incredibly pissed off. They had pulled some blame-reversal
  
  
  thing where they felt the existence of toxic metals in the