Blind Allie 3:3

“I’ll have the gazpacho.”

“Just an iced tea for me, thanks.”

“Hey, Allie, isn’t that your Paris cathedral drawing?”

“Where?”

“Over there. On the front page of the local rag.”

Allie grabbed the newspaper that a customer had left on the adjacent table and abruptly sank back into her banquette, stunned by what she saw. So beyond mortified, she nearly fell apart.

Above the fold on the front page was not her one, but her two entries to “Draw me Notre Dame,” scandalously decoupaged and outrageously captioned, “Local Teen’s Burning Desire Receives Honorable Mention.”

She thought she had given clear instructions. When the archbishop wrote to her about the delayed honorable mention, he also sent a copy of his letter to the local paper, along with a press release and background on the project. Soon after Missy had pointed out Allie’s lewd placement of the spire, Allie sent the paper’s dead editor-in-chief an image of her second entry–which did not receive any mention but also did not cross any moral lines–with instructions to use the church on fire rather than the church with the spire if the paper was going to print anything about it.

The paper’s boneheaded typesetter literally took Allie’s instructions as relayed via the editor-in-chief literally and superimposed her drawing of the church on fire on the church with the spire, leaving the Blessed Virgin Mary mostly unaltered, except now her groin was engulfed in flames.