Potted Plant
Boy obsessed with potted plant. Boy carries potted plant everywhere. Boy convinced he can communicate electrically with potted plant's vegetative soul. Boy has electrical clips connecting his earlobes to potted plant's leaves. Potted plant electrically delivers sage advice. Advice itself seems quite sane. In spite of the eccentricity of the constant presence of potted pal, boy achieves modicum of success in the world of business following plant’s advice.
Despite his wealth, boy becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his life. Boy is lonely. Company of plant no longer suffices. Potted plant is hurt but seemingly capable of coping. Magnanimous plant. Potted plant advises boy that boy should take some time to meet a nice girl. A nice human girl. Potted plant advises boy in quite sane ways as to how to court and impress and eventually marry girl. Plan works.
After years of marital bliss potted plant talks boy into liquefying girl and pouring her into potted plant’s soil. Potted plant's advice to boy apparently not so sane after all. Boy hauled off to jail. But not without first secreting away a clipping. Boy soothes his conscience with the thought that girl lives on somehow in clipping and that clipping will survive transplantation into prison environs. Boy mistaken. Not even boy survives transplantation into prison environs.
Copyright 2004 Pete Mandik