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Saturday's Storyteller: "When the seedpods opened, the little farm girl screamed."

by Belinda Roddie When the seedpods opened, the little farm girl screamed. But the truth was, there was nothing to be afraid of whatsoever. For out of the pods emerged the greenest, plumpest, tastiest giant peas that one did ever lay her blue eyes on. Her uncle, rugged and superbly masculine as he was, laughed and clapped his large hands together, then stooped down to pull a pea the size of a fist out of its opened, fleshy womb. He held it out to her niece, but the girl wildly shook her head. "Self-opening pea pods," her uncle tried to explain. "I swear to you, the peas will be the best you've ever eaten." The girl was not interested in eating something that came right out of a giant green shell without the need of human hands. Besides, she didn't like peas. Uncle Jared owned the patent on the giant genetically modified vegetables that he farmed now, having once operated the company born out of the genetic study, "Allegranto." In

Today's OneWord: Undetected

"If we use the velcro shoes I invented," Lisbeth snapped, "then we can sneak into Letterman's mansion undetected." "How?" She sighed and shook her fist at Hammel. "You don't listen," she scowled. "The shoes have been equipped with astute stealth capabilities. They make no sound. They leave no prints. And they also carry a electronic signal in them that can corrupt burglar alarms like as solar flare."