It’s our first time at California Pizza Kitchen
and the waiter asks us how we liked our meal
Good, thank you!
Then he gets to my mother
asks how she liked the pizza
I make better pizza at home.
And we gasp
and she says
But it’s true
I do.
Reem Faruqi’s the award-winning author of Lailah’s Lunchbox, a book based on her own experiences immigrating to the United States. She’s the author of other picture books and middle grade novels – many received starred reviews. Find her at ReemFaruqi.com.
Stretching truth… an old photo, a love of hiking and exotic travel, a passion for good food and wine plus an irresistible sense of humour. Both were guilty. He scanned the cafe looking for his “Hopeful Goddess”, she for her “Saviour Knight”. Empty chairs and lonely hearts, sipping Diet Coke.
Cari Main is retired and a big fan of the 50-word challenge.
Maybe you will call, she manages to murmur while lowering herself into the taxi, before I close the door between us. It is not a question; just a simple statement. She has saved me from lying to us both.
This makes me like her more than I have all evening.
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