Breakfast

I like Steinbeck. (Or what of his I have read. It's not much.)
This short story (very, very short, three pages) is an excellent example of how to write a short story. It is structurally perfect. It has everything.

And now I want biscuits with bacon gravy for breakfast. To eat it out in the open with a cup of coffee, and finish the breakfast with a small libation to Mother for providing this pleasure for me :-)
And I don't even like coffee...