eyeballs ovenbird At a fancy Chinese seafood restaurant we are served a fish that was just steamed alive and its appearance is as haunted as you would expect for a creature that was plucked from a cloudy tank and murdered with vaporized water. My son dares his younger cousin to eat the eyes, all slimy and blue and blind. She's feral so she does it. She pulls an eyeball from the socket and shoves it into her mouth (the ocular nerves are hanging out and it is horror movie perfect). She swallows while her cousins grimace. Then my nine year old niece, with her innocent head of curls, looks up and says, "that was good! I'm gonna have the other!" And she plucks out the second eye with a fork and eats it. 250704 what's it to you? who go blather from