Short Stories: Children's Short Story that Features Vegetables as the Main Characters

"Woo-hoo! That tickles my tummy." Cody Carrot laughed as water splashed across his lean, orange body.

"All I am is a big, red tummy," said Tina Tomato. "I'm toooo fat."

"No, you aren't," said Buster Beet. "And why are we getting a bath?"

Simon, the cat, looked at them from the kitchen chair. His blue eyes narrowed. "You're being rinsed so you can be cooked."

"Cooked?" asked Cody.

Simon pounced on a fly. "Yup, and eaten. Just like this bug." He swallowed it, smirked, and slunk away.

"How awful! We're someone's lunch!" Tina sobbed and wiped the tears that rolled down her belly.

"I don't believe Simon. No one's going to eeeeeeat ...." Cody disappeared.

"Cody, where are you?" called Buster.

"Ook uf ear," said Cody, his voice sounding muffled.

Buster twisted his purple head around. He couldn't see Cody anywhere. "What does 'ook uf ear' mean?"

"It means look up here, you silly beet!"

Buster and Tina looked up. There was Cody, being dried with a paper towel. A human hand was holding him.

"Oh no," Tina whispered. "They're going to eat him without even cooking him first." She sucked her tummy in as flat as she could. "Do I look thinner?" she asked Buster hopefully.

"Huh?"

"Nobody will want to eat a skinny tomato." Tina twirled in a circle, but looked just as plump on both sides.

"You're still round."

"What'll I do?" she cried.

"Shush," Buster said. "You'll burst your seeds getting all upset. I'm hatching a plan to get us out of heeeeeere ...." Buster vanished into thin air.

"Oh no! I'm red, and fat, and all alone," cried Tina. Then she fainted.

*******

"Are you awake?"

It was too dark to see, but Tina could tell by the deep voice that it was Buster speaking. Her voice wobbled as she said, "Where are we? In someone's stomach?"

Cody answered, "We're in a car. On a plate, in a box."

The car stopped with a jerk.

"We're being carried somewhere," Buster whispered. They thudded against each other. Suddenly the lid opened and light flooded in.

"They're going to blind us first, and then eat us!" Tina squeaked.

The plate they were on was lifted and set on a table. The veggies blinked. As they stopped seeing spots, a human stopped in front of them. He looked at Cody and Buster. He patted Tina's tummy and gave it a little squeeze. "Good size," he said. Then he stuck something on the plate.

Cody whispered, "What does it say?"

Buster rolled over to it. "Carson County Fair. Vegetable entry. Grand prize."

"Wah-zing!" shouted Cody. "We took grand prize in the county fair."

They looked at Tina. Buster said, "We always told you ...."

"That you were just the right size," Cody finished.

"Aw shucks," said Tina, blushing even redder. And from then on, she never again worried about her round shape because she understood that her size was just right for her.