TITLE:
Inconcievable!
AUTHOR: rednovember
WORD COUNT:
200-something
CHALLENGE: 26, fish out of water
The cabbage man woke up and decided it would be a good day to sell cabbages. He could taste it in the air- the smell of hungry shoppers in the market.
He pushed his covered cart through the still-empty streets. His precious cabbages were covered by brown canvas cloths, in order to protect them from the cold and dew in the morning. He arrived at his normal spot, next to a merchant of celery. The cabbage man wasn't threatened by this other vegetable vendor at all; everybody knew celery was an inferior vegetable. Unlike the holiness that was his cabbage stock.
Humming happily to himself, the cabbage man pulled off the cloth over his cabbages in a regal swish.
And stopped dead when he saw what had been hiding under the canvas.
Carrots.
Blinding orange in the sunlight, their long, thin bodies were obscenities in his cart.
He couldn't breathe.
"You alright?" asked the celery merchant.
"Carrots!" the cabbage man managed to squeak out. "Carrots!"
"So just sell the carrots today," shrugged the celery man, turning back to his own cart. "No big deal."
"Sell... carrots?" squeaked the cabbage man in a high-pitched voice. "You want me to sell... carrots?"
His eyes rolled up in his head, and he fell to the ground in a dead faint.
Alright, whodunnit? Who's the smart-ass who stole my man's cabbages?
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