The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Coffee and Pie
I worked at the diner for five years. Sometimes my whole life seemed like eggs and bacon, coffee and pie. One of the regulars came in every afternoon around 3. His face was weathered and his jeans grubby, but he always tipped well. The coffee was on the counter in front of his stool before he sat down: cream, no sugar. I knew how he liked it. He never said much, just sat at the counter and contemplated his mug. But we had an understanding, he and I. The stool, the coffee, the cream, the tip. A ritual we shared.
Separate post to say I love your drabble, Juliana.
And yes, I'm lame and have not been drabbling in months, but I'm getting back in the game, damn it!
This isn't very good, but for some reason is what popped to mind and won't go away
What I Told Them:
"I know you were looking forward to blueberry pie, but I discovered too late I didn't have enough ingredients. I hope the crumble will do."
What Really Happened:
"Pie."
"Pie!"
"Pie!!PIE!PIE!!PIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!"
My toddler downed my cup of coffee before my brain could catch on. Pie for breakfast it was. Too early to be on the defensive.
sarameg, that cracked me up.
Just representing a different kind of pie...
My grandmother stands at the stove, slowly cooking the ground pork, adding a mashed potato, some onion, and the spices. She’s making tourtiere, French Canadian pork pie. The recipe she gave me calls for half-teaspoons of cinnamon and cloves, but that’s not nearly enough to get the flavor right. While it’s cooking, she makes the pie crust. After seventy years of baking, she’s got the touch, even though she can’t see well enough to read the recipe any more, and the crust is always perfect. Dinner is the tourtiere with ketchup, a salad, a cup of coffee for my Memere.
Kristin, there's no "getting back in the game"; you never left it. This has been a fun topic to drabble and to follow along with others.
I think I have an idea for this one finally. Pie and coffee conjures Twin Peaks for me too, and it's hard to get off the brain.
Love everyone's so far!
it's hard to get off the brain
So's PIE!
Warning, link has sound
I warned you, I had a thing for serial killers today.
Getting the Axe*
All I could think as Tom’s headless body came flying out the pot was, “Damn, this fucker just won’t die.” I’d cut off his head, hung him by his heels and left him to bleed out. So I thought. Instead, there I was, chasing him around the kitchen, desperate to catch him. He belonged in that pan so I could roast him to a crispy delight. Not only that, but his half-plucked feathers had scattered all over the kitchen, knocking over my coffee and landing in the bowl of sliced apples. So much for my Thanksgiving ritual sacrifice, with pie.
based on the true story of my grandmother and the chicken. that. would. not. die.
(spoiler fonted because if you read this first, it will ruin the drabble)
The couple talked over the latest movie they’d seen as Claire dished up the pie and ice cream. “It was a fine movie,” the husband said, “but I didn’t believe the ending.” George was a writer and tended to pause as if waiting for his audience to catch up.
“Really? Of course with a lead like Helen Mirren, what’s not to believe?” Claire tended to take her beloved’s tangents with a few grains of salt to keep peace in the house. She just didn’t feel anything as seriously as he seemed to, anyway.
“Well, women don’t have that kind of killer instinct.”
”Well, okay, maybe not with a golf club. But there are plenty of...homely ways to do someone in.”
She says this lightly, but is hurt when he declines another slice of pie.
