Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 01, 2023

Homework will definitely do that to you.

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Does Marigold have a smart phone? How does she receive text messages?

Idioms are one of hardest things for English language learners to understand.

I never liked homework and I never liked reading for school. Those books were either boring, disturbing, or a combination of both. In one case I figured out I don’t care for dystopian fiction, so there’s that.

Just like the time Phoebe thought Marigold broke her horn and it turned out instead she broke her French horn instrument

I’d be worried too… If I didn’t know what she really meant. but seeing Marigolds reaction is still great. :}

Unicorns are not good with metaphors, because a metaphor is a comparison with something else. What self-respecting unicorn would want that?

Do unicorns not know what metaphors are?

“ACKSHUALEE it’s not a metaphor becau—”

DIE.

Reading centuries-old literature for English homework is harrowing.

For all her centuries, Marigold is quite the literalist.

Marigold needs to be aware of metaphor. All the intelligent species are into it,