Of Dishes and Spoons [FICTION]

Why did that dish run away with that spoon

Was it because they feared the cow and moon

Would be married faster, love more

Or because they needed someone to adore?

In a fairy tale kingdom where nursery rhymes come to life, the utensils decided to have a grand ball. The evening should have been perfect with spoons dancing with spoons and dishes canoodling under the moon. However, an odd number of dishes and spoons showed up. Dolly Dish and Salvatore Spoon stood alone at the side of the dance floor, watching their friends dancing happily in neat rows.

“He is quite handsome,” Dolly whispered to herself as she looked at Salvatore out of the corner of her eye, “For a dish.”

He didn’t hear her, but he smiled back, thinking how lovely and shiny she was compared to the dishes he normally went out with. When she didn’t look away, he rolled over to her. 

“Care to dance?”

“Sure. Why not?”

As they danced together, the other dishes and spoons on the dance floor slowly took notice. Soon the unusual couple stood at the center of a crowd of onlookers. Instead of admiring the graceful way they moved as one, the crowd seemed more focused on something else.

“How could she? A spoon?”

“Dishes belong with dishes.”

“Spoons should spoon with spoons.

“What do they think could come from this?”

“She’d never fit in a drawer.”

“He’d just get lost in a cabinet.”

As the voices rose, the dishes and spoons began fighting with each other. The clank of metal on ceramic drew Dolly and Salvatore from their dance. 

“What’s going on?” Dolly whispered.

“I think they’re fighting over us.”

“That’s silly.”

“Silly or not. It might be wise to get out of here.”

Weaving between the dueling dishes and squabbling spoons, the newly minted couple headed for the door. As they reached it, the shadow of a bovine passed over the moon.

‘What an odd night.” Dolly declared.

“Yes, but one I wouldn’t have wanted to miss. Run away with me?”

“Of course, but where to?”

“A better storybook land. One where a spoon can live happily ever after with the dish of his dreams?”

“We might have to build it, but I’m in.”

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Luckily, my husband and I are both clearly hobbits, so people don’t question our love, but I have heard comments about friends of mine that hurt. If you don’t see people in their day to day lives, showing love and respect for each other despite differences that honestly don’t matter, then you don’t have a right to judge them.