Feast of Peas

A vibrant and deliciously amusing suspenseful story set in India about food and gardening, anticipation, and generosity

Every morning, Jiva works in his garden until the sun turns as red as a brides sari. Observed by his friend Ruvji, Jiva plants peas and beans, potatoes and tomatoes, eggplants and okra in his vegetable patch, and anticipates a delicious meal of plump peas, sweet peas, lined-up-in-the-shell peas.
 
But each time Jiva is ready to pick those delicious peas for his feast, he finds that theyre already gone. And not a single precaution he takesa fence, a scarecrowprevents the next theft. Who or what is stealing Jivas delicious peas?
 
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