Sunday, February 12, 2006

Lizzy the Onion

This is post 10 of Section V. To begin at the beginning, go here. Section II begins here. Section III begins here. Section IV begins here, and Section V begins here.

“What are you gonna do to me?” Lizzy asked, wriggling with delicious horror.
An evil smile spread over Stephen’s regular features. “First, ve vill twist you like a pretzel vis yo-gah; zen ve vill BORE you. Ha ha ha! Tell me, my leetle flowair”—his accent got crazier as they went along—“haf you evair heard of zee—lotus poseetion?”
“Wait! Wait! I wanna be an onion!” Lizzy shrieked, freeing herself from his clutches.
It took him a moment to realize she meant “minion.” She carefully removed the tiara and set it on the coffee table. “First,” she said, imitating his delivery, “ve haf zee boring CD! Ha ha ha!”
“What would that be?” Stephen inquired in his real voice. Professor Bennett had asked him to try to get her to listen to some classical music, and the boy sensed opportunity knocking.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Tom & Icy said...

That's a clever way to get her to listen to classical music and realize how alive it is today.

5:02 PM  
Blogger Doug The Una said...

This is great. Lizzy comes from a family of onions.

9:41 AM  

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