Our Day Will Come

by Margery Daw

Sea urchins, the sushi delicacy, were once a scourge. They gnaw the wood of lobster traps, destroying them. (Turns out they love wood - and they never get any.) The village idiot who cleared the sea urchins made a fortune reselling them. Lobsters themselves were once thought peasant food. Indentured servants protested - successfully! indentured servants! - to eat lobster no more than three times a week.

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Margery Daw, who was the Second Runner-Up in our First Contest, is a pseudonym and part of a nursery rhyme.