The Pizza Party – Part XXXVIII
Aug 9th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series | 383 viewsMother Sow, setting up a birthday party at the back of the barn for twin piglets, said she’d send out for a pizza delivery. “Six ought to do us,” she said, “and we’ll order the big size.”
Her brother House, and the piglets’ uncle, said, “Why not make a pick-up. It’ll be cheaper.” House was the biggest pig on the farm.
“My, that’s a good idea,” Mother Sow said, “But who can we get to make that trip?”
“I’d gladly go,” said House, licking his chops on the side, a move that his sister missed.
She gave him the money for the 6 pizzas, and said, “Well, hurry back. We’ll have the party at 6 o’clock.”
“The only thing that would hold me up is the condition of the bridge. Some of the folks say it is in poor shape.”
“Oh,” she said. “I wouldn’t worry about that. Just hurry off on your way.” She practically pushed him out of the barnyard.
She did not see him for two days, and when she did with no pizzas on hand, he said with swinish gluttony that construction blocked the bridge and there was no way he’d waste her pizzas, so he ate them.
One should not fail to see the fault in sending out a hungry sow for pizza pick-up.
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About Tom Sheehan: Bio note: Tom Sheehan’s books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, from Press 53; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, from Pocol Press. His work is currently in new anthologies from Press 53, Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience. He has 14 Pushcart nominations, the Georges Simenon Award for fiction, a story in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and a nomination for Best of the Web 2010. His novels include Vigilantes East, Death for the Phantom Receiver and An Accountable Death. His poetry books include The Saugus Book; Ah, Devon Unbowed; and This Rare Earth & Other Flights. He served in Korea, 1951-52, with the 31st Infantry Regiment. He has many Internet and print magazine appearances, has appeared in 11 print issues of Ocean Magazine, has 134 cowboy stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, recorded works in Qarrtsiluni, work in Rosebud, Lady Jane Miscellany, Perigee and Writing Raw, etc. He helped co-edit and issue two books on his hometown of Saugus, MA, sold 3700 to date of 4500 printed ( 842 total pages in the two books) with color sections, text, timelines, nostalgia and history, all proceeds for Saugus High School graduates via the John Burns Memorial Scholarship. Tom’s web site is at http://www.milspeak.org/TomHome2.htm. |
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