Seasonings (standard:fantasy, 705 words)
Author: GXD	Added: Apr 29 2009	Views/Reads: 3250/2050	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Watch what you eat. Go easy on those herbs and spices. You may not want to share Marc's nightmare. Maybe you do.

SEASONINGS 

Maybe it was the lasagna that disagreed with him.  Too much seasoning. 
That night, Marc's dream of flying like a bird turned into a nightmare. 
 Fright woke him.  He was shaking with fear and. . .and he was hungry! 
Little flashbacks of skydiving without a parachute made him burn the 
oatmeal and toss his morning coffee down the drain. 

Not too good for a stockbroker who is expected to make  precision
decisions, juggling vast sums of money for anxious clients.  You had to 
be a hawk at this business, with an eye for every opportunity.  The 
nightmare really bothered him. 

In Marc's kitchen, the spice cabinet was full.  Its labels proudly read:


POULTRY SEASONING 

CHICKEN SEASONING 

TURKEY SEASONING 

DUCK SEASONING 

GROUSE SEASONING 

QUAIL SEASONING 

SPARROW SEASONING 

LARK SEASONING 

TURTLEDOVE SEASONING 

NIGHTINGALE SEASONING 

PHEASANT SEASONING 

STARLING SEASONING 

PIGEON SEASONING 

BLACKBIRD SEASONING 

HAWK SEASONING 

CROW SEASONING 

RAVEN SEASONING 

ALBATROSS SEASONING 

BUZZARD SEASONING 

VULTURE SEASONING 

Of course Marc's collection wasn't complete, but he was proud of it
anyway.  If you looked closely at the ingredients on the labels, you 
would see that every bottle contained the same spices, only in 
different proportions: 

Garlic  -  Paprika  -  Onion  -  Pepper  -  Savory  -  Coriander - 
Black Pepper  -  Cumin  -  Sage  -  Thyme  - Marjoram  -  Salt  -  
Monosodium Glutamate  -  Sesame Seeds  -  Celery Seeds  -  Poppy Seeds  
=  Ginger  -  Dill  -  Nutmeg  -  Anise  -  Benzadrine Proprionate  -  
and a pinch of Sugar. 

Marc's taste for fowl began to develop when he saw Hitchcock's movie,
"The Birds".  He felt keenly the malevolence of those birds. When he 
was eight years old, he tried to pet a goose and received a sharp peck 
for his efforts.  That night he ate Chicken Fricassee and felt the 
bliss of sweet revenge. Long after the goose was forgotten, Marc began 
to crave the taste of larger birds, like roast turkey. He still pursued 
that blissful feeling of sweet revenge every Thanksgiving. 



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