Lottie’s Muffin for No One — Before the street bells rang, Lottie lined up six warm muffins for the breakfast cart. Read the full story →
Before the street bells rang, Lottie lined up six warm muffins for the breakfast cart. Every day she counted, “One, two, three,” while the oven ticked and the flour smelled soft as clouds. Until one morning, a silver moon-moth tapped the window with wings like tiny paper fans.
Because of that, Lottie opened the curtain and saw flour dust sprinkled across the sill in little dots. Because of that, she followed the dots to the back step, where a cold delivery basket sat empty, its cloth stiff with frost. “Oh,” whispered Lottie. She tucked one muffin inside, added a napkin, and shut the door before anyone came. At bell time, five muffins went to the cart, and one secret breakfast waited in the quiet. Can you spot the muffins Lottie counted before the street bells rang?
