“Remember
to eat your fruits and vegetables!”
Hannibal Lecter* #quote
Happy Fourth of July! (Including those non-Unitedstatesian that
don't celebrate the holiday). Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Three Little Pigs Rent Out
“Ah, yes Mr. John L. Pig?” I said
as I knocked on the door with my gray furred paw. “I work for the
government and there seems to be some concerns about your house both
by your neighbors and with you renting it out.”
The owner of the house looked through
the window on his door at me. He must have been short as he seemed to
be standing to be on some sort of stool. He was a pig, which I
assumed from his last name. I always hated working with them.
Socially awkward for wolves like us even with the carnivore treaty
from fifty years ago that regulated us carnivores to only eating
chickens and fish, the animals considered dumb enough to be eatable.
They couldn't talk after all like the rest of us. But there was still
the awkwardness from the old days.
“What's wrong with my house?” the
pig said to me with a glare.
I then replied, “Well the government
considers it a saftey hazard to renters and neighbors fear that if a
storm comes around debris from it will hit their houses.”
“I bet you by the hair on my
chiny-chin-chin, my house is perfectly safe!” he yelled at me.
I then rolled my eyes. “For the love
of...your house is made of straw! I could blow it over myself!”
The pig then gave me an arrogant
smile. “Then do it!”
I replied, “Fine, I'll huff, and
I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!” So I took my biggest
breath in and blew. I was famous for being a very big man and I in
fact did blow down the straw house and its weak foundations. “There!
At least you were standing next to the door so nothing big fell on
you.”
“Why you!” the pig grumbled. “I'll
just go work with my brother you'll see.” He quickly left.
Now I know that stupidity tended to
run in the family so I looked into the family of this pig. It seemed
he had two brothers. I went to the house of the brother he decided to
work with.
I couldn't believe my eyes, it was a
house of sticks.
“Um, hello?” I said after knocking
on the door. Two pigs at this time looked at me this time. I started
to wonder how they actually managed to make a working door with a
straw house and a stick house.
“I heard what you did to my
brother's straw house.” the stick house brother said to me.
The straw house brother then added,
“And I guess you think my brother's house is a safety hazard too?”
“It couldn't be worse!” I growled.
“People could have their eyes poked out! Your straw house would
crumble under rain, but this one is flimsy built sticks and could
collapse on someone then have the grace to flood them with water!”
The straw brother then said with a
glare, “You think you can blow this one down too?”
“Certainly!” I replied.
The stick brother then said, “Then
do it.”
“Fine. I'll huff, and I'll puff and
I'll blow your house down!” I took in a massive breath and just
like the straw house I blew it down.
Both brothers left with angry red
faces the stick house brother saying. “We're just going to work
with our eldest brother.”
I groaned. I looked up the last
brother and I went to the last home. It was a brick house. Thank God.
It was beautifully constructed. Perfectly safe. I looked around
before approaching the door, everything was safe.
I knocked on the door and three pig
brothers answered the door.
“So have you come to tell me my
house is unsafe?” The brick house brother said to me.
I smiled. “Actually I inspected it.
I think it is perfectly safe to rent out.”
“No!” the two other brothers
added, “You have to be fair and try to blow down this house too!”
I looked at them. I couldn't believe
it. They were actually serious.
“Fine.” I rolled my eyes. “I'll
huff and puff, and I won't blow your house down but I'll try anyways
because they asked me to.” I took a big, pointless breath and blew
at the brick house.
“Try again!” the stick and straw
house brother yelled at me.
I huffed and puffed again with
obviously no success.
“Try again!” they yelled at me.
I glared at them. “No. This is
stupid and I'm going home.”
When I went home that day I thought I couldn't possibly with
find anything stupider in my work dealing with renters, yet later that month I
had to figure how to manage seven dwarves with one resident of
their home who was kinda sorta sleeping/dead because of some magic
poisoned apple. How do I put that down on my paper work?
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