Ficlets

“Alright everybody, go ahead and sit down, we’ll be doing an experiment today, but first we have an announcement.” she looked down at a little piece of paper in her hand. “The FDA and CIA …have declared a Code Green.” The teacher looked puzzled.

“What does that mean?” asked a little girl in the back.

“It means that there has been some food contamination greater than the percentage generally allowed.” She still looked perplexed. “It…this can’t be right.”

“What is it, Teacher?”

“Uh…well, according to this. There has been an error at the factory for Nat’s Hot Dogs, specifically in the area of the bacon-flavored variety…”

“Those are really good! I hope they’re not making people sick…”

“It looks like…They’ve got higher than acceptable levels of…”

“Higher levels of what?”

The color was drained out of the teacher’s face.

“Higher levels of…human flesh.”