It's time again for Susanna Leonard Hill's Annual Valentiny Contest. The rules were to create a story in which someone is hopeful, using a maximum of 214 word. Below is my entry.
Cluck-A-Doodle Valentine
(214 words)
(214 words)
Quack, Oink,
Moo, cluck a-doodle-doo. Animals in an uproar. Barnyard friends love Cora’s Valentine
cupcakes but, Cora has a broken wing. And a bad squawk.
Who will
bake cupcakes for the Valentine festival?
Pig dumped
flour into a bowl.
“Mooove
over, let me add the milk.”
“Too much
milk,” said Pig.
“How do you
know? No one can read Cora’s chicken scratch.”
Duck waddled
over to help. She flapped to the table, “Sugar is what we need.”
“Squawk,”
Cora wailed.
“Don’t get
your feathers ruffled,” Pig snorted. Tap, tap, crunch. Pig cracked eggs…
…a little too
hard.
“We must prepare
the Cluck-a-doodle cupcakes for the festival or everyone will be heartbroken,”
said Duck.
“I hope we
can follow Cora’s recipe,” said Pig.
“Mmmm, more
eggs,” Cow moaned.
Eggs were
beaten, milk poured and batter stirred.
“Red drops,”
Pig bellowed.
“Squawk,”
Cora wailed.
“Hush Cora,
we’re almost done,” said Pig.
Cow slowly opened
the oven and slid the mixture inside.
Everybody
waited. Cow grazed, Duck went for a swim and Pig took a mud bath.
As the sun began
to hide, it was time.
Hot from the
oven, the cupcakes were… flat. Tiny.
The festival
must go on.
Quack, Oink,
Moo, cluck-a-doodle-doo. Valen-tiny cookies for all of you.
“Cluck-a-doodle
yum,” said Duck.
“Squawk,”
wailed Cora.
