After the fall of The Great and Powerful Oz, the Munchkins covered the yellow brick road with asphalt.

The witches opened a café. Don’t ask for water.

Dorothy traded ruby slippers for work boots and founded a recuse farm for abandoned flying monkeys.

Even Toto couldn’t remember the way home.

Candace Kubinec posts her stories at storydribbles.wordpress.com and her poetry at rhymeswithbug.com.