This week it was the best one of all. I flattened it on the tabletop and adjusted my glasses. It read in tiny blue script, “Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good write.”
I chart my life with the sage advice found baked into Chinese fortune cookies. Every Sunday, I get takeout General Tso and set the course for the next week. I deftly pincer the savory chicken nuggets with wooden chopsticks and slurp the hot and sour soup from the Styrofoam cup. Then eagerly break open the brittle pastry shell and withdraw the narrow strip of truth.
This week it was the best one of all. I flattened it on the tabletop and adjusted my glasses. It read in tiny blue script, “Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good write.”
Pamela Kennedy
14/12/2020 07:25:03 pm
Cute...made me smile...
Susan F. Reid
14/12/2020 07:30:23 pm
Funny ending to a smoothly flowing story.
Mary Wallace
14/12/2020 09:40:14 pm
Excellent play on words. Clever story.
Sue Clayton
15/12/2020 12:11:12 am
So well written Ed. Good fortune to you in 2021.
Sandra James
15/12/2020 08:21:39 am
Very good story, Ed! Great twist and I'm inclined to think fortune cookies might be a lot more reliable than conventional advice sources :)
Ed N. White
19/12/2020 01:14:40 pm
And a partridge in a pear tree. Comments are closed.
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