Lucky was a Lamb: 100 Words
I wanted to do something new today so I hunted down a pretty cool blog hop/meme called 100 Words. Below, I respond to a one-word prompt in exactly 100 words. This week’s prompt was “lucky.”
Lucky was a lamb. Well, it was the lamb’s name, before it was slaughtered. Lucky was bottle-fed, which, for those of you unaccustomed to life on a farm, means that Lucky was more like a pet than a commodity. He was affectionate and playful, adorable and spunky. But he was not lucky.
I ate Lucky. I was goaded into it, and that’s my deplorable excuse. I didn’t want to be perceived as the overly sensitive one; the mindful yet pretentious and judgmental vegetarian. So I ate just a very small bit of lamb that day.
And it was truly gross.
Now, because I’m a lowly WordPress.com user, I can’t use the code to list the blog hop participants, but please-please-please check out the original post at Velvet Verbosity. The participants are listed there, where you can add yourself to the list!
Hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving!
Posted on 2011 Nov 25, in Writing and tagged 100 Words, Blog Hop, Meme, Writing Prompts. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
and now – inwardly – I am singing
lucky was a little lamb, little lamb
sigh – poor lucky.
Well at least he has a song, now, in remembrance.
Poor Lucky. His luck ran out.
(Welcome to the 100 Word Challenge)
Thank you!
Ugh…no way could I eat lucky. I am a proud vegetarian!
Poor little lamb. I hope the narrator got a belly ache :p
Haha, Carrie, Lucky would have appreciated you, no doubt.
I was thinking about Jodie Foster’s speech about her childhood in The Silence of the Lambs.
excellently creepy…liked it
Oh now I have to revisit that scene.
Thanks for stopping by.
I hope you had a great thanksgiving as well. How’s your baby, Alexis?
Thanks, Kim! He’s doing great. He’s 9 months old now, almost walking. He’s also the cutest baby in the universe, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Hope all is well with you!
Don’t know if that’s a true story or not, but if so, how horrible. I was such an animal lover as a child this would’ve killed me.
And welcome to the challenge.
Thanks!
I was (and am) an animal lover as well. I even have my national license to practice as a veterinary technician.
But tell that to a guy who raises livestock for slaughter and see how long he laughs in your face.