When he served it to his mother, she examined a black forkful.
“What’s this?”
“Frittata! Ham. Tomatoes. Parmesan.”
“And, what’s this?”
“Oh, that? That’s my finger. The knife slipped when daddy struggled. And that’s his eyeball. Happy Mother’s Day.”
The prompt for the Chimera 66 Challenge #15 at Grammar Ghoul Press is the word "frittata," a noun meaning, "an omelet resembling a large pancake and containing vegetables, seasonings, and often ricotta, Parmesan, or other cheeses."
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