Hey, look! Continuity. I couldn't help it. Watchout4Snakes gave me "croaking cad," so there was our talking frog again, and Virtual Writers' World was on a legal fiction kick with "verdict" and "forgery" as the prompts for the August 18th Daily Dashes. So there you go.
The protagonist of this fictionette isn't James Pond under a new pseudonym. This is a different frog in a different neighborhood--in a different U.S. state, in fact--some weeks later. No matter where you go, frogs that have learned how to talk are real troublemakers. So say the humans, in any case.
Cover art incorporates public domain photo of a Morrill County courtroom in Bridgeport, Nebraska, and a photo of a report card by Mark Gstohl (CC BY 2.0).
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The Celebrated Frog Forger of Clackamas County
Short StorySay what you like, there was inarguable demand for his services.
