100 Word Challenge: What does it taste like?

February 20, 2013 Mrs TeePot

She looked up at him, running it round her mouth, judgement in her eyes. She licked her lips having swallowed all of it.

“So…what does it taste like?” he questioned in a worried tone.

“It’s…” she desperately didn’t want to upset him, “different?” she tried.

“Different good? Or different bad?” he pressed needily.

“I’ll be honest, it’s far too salty.”

“I knew it!” he declared, accepting the inevitable but still hurt. “I should have started again when the lid fell off the salt.”

Realisation dawning on her she yelled, “you mean there’s a whole jar of salt in this bolognese???”

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Mrs TeePot also goes by the name Livi and is a tea drinking, chocolate munching, social networking writer. She is the Snapshot Round Up writer for Britmums and also moonlights at www.urbanvox.net adding some extra raunch to their "Fun & Frolics" column.

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