May 15, 2004

"Coated"

Okay, here's something I found awhile back and tucked away: 5ive-Minute Stories. The idea is to write for five minutes about whatever comes to mind upon reading the word of the week. Might help to get the old creative juices flowing for the myriad writing projects of the summer.

This week's word is "coated," and here is my bit:

The frying pan was coated with Teflon, but it was flaking off. Hope it's not carcinogenic, she thought, as she made yet another cheese sandwich for her monovore son. Sometimes it was peanut butter; sometimes he seemed to eat nothing for days but Cheerios. Right now he was in the middle of a cheese sandwich kick. She supposed that it would all pan out, in the end. Nutritionally, she meant: all the vitamins and minerals would all balance, over time. Whether it was healthy psychologically, what it meant for his future as a maker and consumer of food, a person who would one day order his own meals in diners and restaurants, she could not guess. Perhaps he would develop all manner of phobias; perhaps he already had them now but had too few words to indicate. Some kind of blue-eyed cross between Monk on TV and Norman Bates. She turned the sandwich.

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