Sunday, March 06, 2011

Thousand: Three Hundred Six

dipping it. And its head. Its head fall off! Where’s the head now? I push around with the spoon but the head doesn’t come up. Mush!” The garden gnome’s chin quivered and tears swam in his eyes. Not at all wanting to observe it, the fisher gnome saw the octopus tentacles made of shortbread on the garden gnome’s plate and the damp line where the octopus’ head must have attached. He looked at his own plate with its partly nibbled madeleine. Other cookies waited on the tray, including a shortbread giraffe, a shortbread sunfish, a shortbread palm tree, more madeleines,

3 comments:

Elisabeth said...

Eating cookies can be perilous or murderous as the case may be.

Glenn Ingersoll said...

Do you call them cookies in Australia? Or biscuits, like in England?

Elisabeth said...

We mostly call them biscuits in Australia, Glenn, as you say like the British. But everyone also knows them as cookies, like the Americans.