We’re in woodland with backpacks, introductions.
Glowing couples hold hands; our foraging instructor munches leaves. I nibble. He discusses elderflowers whilst sitting amidst daisies; we picnic on sourdough and dandelions.
“Wild mushroom pasta,” he says. “Folklore believes these fungi help people read minds.”
The couples devour bowlfuls, then leave separately.
Ellen Townsend is an art teacher and writer. Her work has appeared in Friday Flash Fiction and Paragraph Planet and has been broadcast on BBC Radio.
Oh, how cynical! Very funny
I wondered where this was going, then BAM — there it was. A brilliant ending, right on target. Well done!
Love the twist. Excellent.
This one will stay with me.
Love the ending.
I lol’d literally, and literarily. ;)
Brilliant