The Last Drop: A Drabble

by ProLiferChelle

Just a humorous story set after the last book in the series. All characters were created by Lenora Mattingly Weber. The "Beany Malone" series was originally published by Thomas Y. Crowell, and is now owned by Image Cascade

Beany Buell, née Malone, added the last drops of flavoring in the bottle to the cake she was stirring up with a sense of relief, mixed with triumph,
mixed with elation. It had taken more than twenty years, but at last, at long last, she'd finished that bottle of almond extract.

"May I never," she thought, "see another bottle of almond extract."

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Beany's brother Johnny came over the next day.

"Carlton called and told me you were out of almond extract," Johnny said, "so I brought you a new bottle."

"No jury," Beany thought, "would ever convict me."