Lima Beans
Today is Day Twelve of the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. Click on the letter picture to the right for more information about this blog hop. Like last year, I’m writing 100-word flash fiction stories/poems/scenes for this year’s challenge. Today’s is:
Lima Beans
“Here’s your chocolate pudding, Carolynn!”
Carolynn took the bowl from her mother and stared with glee at the brown mixture. She dug her spoon in and washed her tongue in the creamy sweetness. The second spoonful left a dark ring around her mouth that she licked away. On the third, her teeth sank into something solid. She chewed, swallowed, and dug in for the fourth. More solid things. She looked down at her bowl and saw lumps in the pudding. She picked one out and dropped it, screaming.
“Carolynn?” Her husband stared at her. “Not the lima bean dream again?”
ROFL!! Catching up on blogs posts – thought your kale one was inspired but this… this is hilarious.
Thank you, AJ! Some might wonder who or what inspired me… 🙂
Blahhhhhhh…AND when I fall asleep tonight AND when eat pudding of any kind I will think of you my friend, the man who screen-writes my nightmares.
AND now I know why you have been banished to Carkoon. I am changing your name from Colin Smith to Colin King, master of links and fear.
Just to let you know that I am leaving for work shortly and will be out of fire for the entire day. But let it be known that, as they same, paybacks are a b***h. I have a whole day to think up a snappy comeback. So over on JR, if the subject of those poisonous little green things comes up you have the advantage until I get home tonight or sneak into the cloak-room to attempt a word-attack by means of Kindle.
This is the short story even Mr. King was afraid to write. Be afraid… be very afraid… bwahahahahaha…! 😉 Thank you for inspiring my muse, 2Ns. A snappy comeback? In 100 words? Ooo… that I’d like to see. 🙂
You’re on.
Phaseolus lunatus. Delicious! On second thoughts….!
I like both kale and lima beans. Others, however… 🙂
So funny! Not just your post but the whole lima bean saga. And I didn’t expect the ending, which is always fun. I seriously thought it was a little girl whose mother was trying to teach her to love lima beans. Should have known you’d twist it.
Thanks, Amanda! I’m glad you liked this, and that the ending caught you by surprise. 🙂 The poor maligned lima bean. I like them, but even I can’t give them a break!
That was an unexpected twist!
~Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine~
Member of C. Lee’s Muffin Commando Squad
Story Dam
Patricia Lynne, Indie Author
Cool! I’m glad. Thanks, Patricia. 🙂
Fantastic story, Colin! I love the unexpected twist. 🙂
Thank you, Lilac! I always like it when my ending twists work. 🙂
Okay my friend, snappy comeback this !
West Cape May, the big toe of New Jersey, dry town and lima bean capital of the world. Every fall they celebrate their special bean with a festival to honor the good harvest.
It is said that lima beans simply boost health. But know there’s more to the little lima then health and well-being. It’s been told that men who eat lima beans experience love and libido boosting too. Perhaps that is why, lima bean enthusiast Colin Smith wrote the best seller, Fifty Shades of Lima Beans. He replaces Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean as Great Britain’s most famous sex symbol.
LOL! Very good. I see you write Urban Fantasy… 🙂
Hahahahaha, if it had a title it would be, Love, Libido and Limas.
or Love in Lima… is it a Peruvian romance, or a tale of strange vegetable desires…?
Oh, you two! Stop it. The lowly lima is feeling a little green and might vomment.
lol… where’s the comment “like” button when you need it? 🙂
Cw2Ns and Colin: Fast fiction face off at 20 paces. Fingers twitch. Keyboards clack. All that’s left standing… a lima bean.
Ha! You know, https://flashfriday.wordpress.com/ did a Flash Dash this morning. They challenged readers to post flash stories between 7:00 and 7:30. AM. My brain doesn’t work that well at that time, I’m afraid. I was getting up to my alarm at 7! But that would be quite a flash face-off. 🙂
Carolynn, this was hilarious. And it’s so much fun hanging with you guys at Colin’s as well. As for 7:00 am, ouch! 🙂
Thanks Lilac.
Jeez Louise, I have to be at work by 7am. which means I am up at five to get there on time. Ugh, I hate going in so early but I love coming home early.
I am NOT a morning person… though as I get older, I seem to like daylight a whole lot more than I used to. Maybe in 20 years I’ll be getting up at the crack of dawn annoyed that I’ve wasted half the day… 🙂
Ha. Great story, Colin. Enjoyed the repartee here!
Thanks, Lisa! If you enjoyed the repartee here, you should visit Janet Reid’s blog (http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com). 🙂