Cranky Crustacean

It’s “C”-Day on the A-to-Z Challenge, where I am attempting to write a 100-word flash fiction story every day based on commenters’ prompts. Thank you so much for yesterday’s suggestions. I thought about all of them, but a story formed around one more quickly than the others, so that’s the one I’ve written. With special thanks to debscarey for the prompt, here’s a lovely little story that only a vegetarian could write called…

CRANKY CRUSTACEAN

Jim picked a crab from the bowl and jabbed it with his fork.

“How ya s’posed to eat this?”

Elliot smiled. “Easy.” He took the crab, and gripped its claw with the crab cracker. He squeezed until the shell cracked.

“See?” said Elliot. “Easyyyyowww!”

The other claw snapped around his wrist.

“Ain’t they s’posed to be dead?” said Jim.

The bowl tipped. Crabs started limping out toward them. Jim grabbed a knife and drove it into one of the crabs. It kept coming.

“They are dead!” said Elliot.

Elliot screamed, but by the time help arrived, it was too late.

Tomorrow’s 100-word story will begin with the letter D. But what will it be called? What prompt will inspire it? That’s up to YOU! Please offer your suggestions in the comments.