THE RESPLENDENT TOAD
March 12, 2013
The resplendent toad ladled gravy into his maw with a diamond studded silver dipper veined in gold. Giles Tumbleberry despaired. Why had he been rejected? After all, hadn’t he and he alone invented the intergalactic steamboat? The toad handed the ladle to Giles and belched long and loud. Thereupon Giles flew into a rage, made a nest there, and peered out, slit of eye and bereft of dreams, at a cruel world where resplendent toads live in luxury and intergalactic steamboat inventors are treated like unwanted viscera.
Moral: When life offers you viscera, opt for salad instead.
