Mel pointed with his spoon to his oatmeal.
“Do those look like two flies to you, Ed?”
Ed squinted, lifting his glasses for a better view. He and Mel were at AL’S counter that Tuesday morning.
“Nah. I think you must’ve separated one fly’s head from its body with that spoon, Mel.”
“Just one, huh?”
Ed nodded, then pointed with his fork which had some yoke on it. He’d ordered fried eggs.
“See, the head’s there. And the body, which’s still moving, is over there.”
Thanks to a decentralized nervous system, a decapitated fly can actually move around and engage in activity, even sexual activity, for several days.
“Thanks, Ed.”
“What’d you mean?”
“Well, I certainly don’t want two flies in my oatmeal.”
David Sydney is a physician who writes fiction in and out of the EHR (Electronic Health Record).
David is also a regular contributor to Rue Scribe with his witty and pithy stories.