Mathieu Cailler
Baby Brandy
So today I switched cars with a friend of mine. Since she has a one-year-old, she has a car seat in the back. I needed to take a bottle of brandy to a friend’s house as a thank you for a painting he gave me. It was then that I discovered how perfect a baby seat is for transporting liquor. It was also then that I discovered how cute a bottle of brandy is, all sleepy, buckled up, swaddled in its blankie. I couldn’t help but steal glances in the rearview mirror every few seconds.
ed’s note: this was a FB message I spotted and could not resist printing.
Mathieu Cailler is a poet and award-winning short-story writer. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, his work has appeared in numerous literary journals. Recently his story “Over the Bridge” won the 2012 Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles.