🍆 On This Year’s Eggplant Harvest

📜 Excerpt from the Unauthorized Annals of the Forbidden Attic

Mother Patience, the Mother Superior, had instructed Sister Potato of Lourdes Foo-Foo and Sister Piety of the Absurd Sorrows to harvest the eggplants before None.

The decision, seemingly innocent, would be studied for many years.

—Sister Piety of the Absurd Sorrows, look at this one.

—Oh, Sister Potato of Lourdes Foo-Foo, what a beauty!

—Nicely glossy.

—Indeed.

—Nicely firm.

—Indeed.

—Nature is marvelous.

—It certainly is.

—I’ve always thought oversized eggplants are impressive, but not necessarily the finest.

—Folk wisdom agrees.

—But a well-proportioned size…

—…is a blessing.

—Exactly.