After Jill’s tasty crantaloupe demo and Olivia’s savory cramato, Ted roiled with second thoughts.

The students in his berry-splicing class turned to him.

“Pass,” he said.

Under the sheet, his project pecked its cage.

“Can’t pass,” Jill said tartly. “What’d you make?”

Feathers ruffled. “I’m afraid you’ll laugh,” he said.

Graham Robert Scott’s micro-stories have appeared in The Arcanist, Blink-Ink, The Drabble, and others.