Thursday, January 12, 2012

Metafiction

 One day, Mrs, Johnson and her son, Donny were sitting on the sofa. Donny was talking about his preschool teacher who tells the story very well. Soon, Donny said to her mom, " Mommy, I want to listen to your story. Can you tell me one of the stories you have?" Mom answered, "I have a story that your grandmother told me when I was young. Do you want to listen?" Donny said, " Sure!" Mrs. Johnson cleared her throat and start the story of Vampire.
<Hungry Vampire>

 It was a dark stormy night. Lightning lit the sky and wind blew strongly. There was a small hut on a big hill, and there lived a vampire in the hut. The vampire was very hungry, but he was timid,so he couldn't go outside. And there wasn't any food to eat in the hut. At that moment,he found something walking toward the hut. He was wondering what it was. It came right in front of the hut. It was a beautiful girl. The vampire thought that the girl looked delicious. But when he saw the girl's frightened face, he decided to save her. The girl said, "Thank you", and gave him what she was holding in the basket. It was a loaf of bread. The vampire was so happy to see the food. He ate the bread hastily. But he was still hungry, so the girl made him a bowl of mushroom soup. Unfortunately, he had allergy to mushrooms.

Picture of Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup Recipe
<Mushroom Soup>

 "Is there a mushroom allergy?" Donny asked.
 "Yes, to vampires." Mom lied.
 "What happen if they eat mushrooms?"Donny asked again.
 "If you listen carefully, you'll find the answer, Donny." Mom replied.

 Finally they fell in love with each other. And they got married and had a baby.But the baby was really strange. He also had an allergy to mushrooms. One day, there was food which looked really delicious. The vampire didn't want to show eating food hastily. He tried to eat slowly, but he couldn't stop his appetite. Therefore, he ate the food sharing with his son. Suddenly, their skin became red and they wantd to scratch. Yes. It was made with mushrooms.

 "Was it made of mushrooms? They can't even notice that it was made with mushrooms?" Donny said.
 "You ate tomato soup yesterday dinner and you didn't know what the soup is made up of though its color was red, huh?" Mom said.
 "It's different situation, mom. They have an allergy. They cannot notice the smell of mushroom." Donny said.
 "Vampires only can smell of blood." Mom answered.
 "Mom, what's today's dinner?" Donny said.
 "What do you want to eat?" Mom said.
 "Mushroom soup!"
 "No, I'll cook vegetable soup. Please come to kitchen when I call you to eat."
 "Then why did you ask that question to me?" Donny said with angry face.
 "Because mushroom is vegetable, too, right?"
 

 "Right." Donny said.

 That night, Donny dreamed about a girl cooking mushroom soup for vampires.

1 comment:

  1. Excellent metafiction! I really like this story. It is funny and cute, and you even have a picture of mushroom soup!

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