Greenhouse Effect
Jamie had no patience for gardening – that was a chore reserved for eccentric old Southern women in big hats. And she really did not see how an internship at this obscure local greenhouse would benefit someone about to finish her dual doctorate in ecology and environmental studies.
Plants seem innocuous enough, Jamie thought as she stalked along behind the greenhouse keeper through the rows of tables, half-listening as he rattled off the names of the plants she’d be tending: drosera capensis, nepenthes ventricosa, dionaea muscipula, amorphophallus titanum…
Wait…those are all carnivorous plants, Jamie thought as she noticed the closeness of the hot, moist atmosphere.
Jamie laughed a little and said to the keeper as much to herself, “Well, it’s a good thing I’m a woman and the term ‘man-eating plant’ only stems from old legends.”
The keeper stopped, turned, looked Jamie sharply in the eye and said, “Make no mistake, miss, these plants feed according to hubris, not gender.”
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Written in response to this week’s Six Sentence Stories challenge, hosted by Girlie on the Edge. Each week writers are challenged to spin a tale in just six sentences.
This week’s cue is PLANT.
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Everyone is good for something, even if it’s just to be a bad example, or plant food. Well done!
“…or plant food.” *snorks* That made me laugh, Mimi! True that! And thanks for the visit!
I have a feeling Jamie won’t make it a full week at her internship, lol.
Good Six!
Right? Likely not past dinner, I suspect.
(to borrow a joke from a high school chemistry teacher, back in the before time), “Jamie better be careful where she sits, otherwise she might end up getting a little behind in her work.”
Fun Six, yo
(the joke I borrowed had the whole sophomore chemistry class in stitches… less funny now, I suspect this due less to the re-telling than the demographics of the original audience. lol)
*groans* That is definitely one that would appeal to the sophomore chem set. LOL
Clone those plants. Hubris flavored humans beware!
D., this made me laugh out loud! 😀
Oh this is a biting six!!
Ha! In more ways than one! Thanks for the visit/read, Lisa!