Mushy mushy
Author's Note:
Contest to write
on Mushrooms and Fairies.
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"This life as
a mushroom is very unfair. We are being discriminated by colors." The
Yellow Dot Mushroom planted herself next to the Red Headed mushroom.
"
Pardon me, Yellow Dot. Ain't you taking a chance being near to me?" The Red-Headed one asked the other mushroom.
"Red Darling,
if anyone picked you up; that person is destined for a long stay at the Wards
for food poisoning. The only reason I am here is to avoid being plucked by
them. So give me some fertilizer space, will ya?"
Now both mushrooms
are in high emotions and I have to intervene. I stood between them and said to
them to be nice and kind. It's not every day we get to share our love. So the
two mushrooms decided that the garden patch is big enough for all of them.
It was then the
Amanita Mushroom came marching in.
"I am here to
the complaint that we the Amanita has been discriminated for public removal due
to our poisonous contents. We know our flesh is not suitable for their
consumption which is how we evolved for centuries. We wanted to left alone but
still, some idiot has to consume us. I am moving my family to the deep forest.
At least the deer there knows we cannot be eaten." The Amanita Mushroom
continues on its journey with its entourage of mushrooms from mama to kiddo.
It was then I looked
at my watch. I am going to be late home.
"Pardon me,
Pixie. I gotta go. Bye."
Next thing I know
I am in a hospital bed with my parents looking down at me.
"She is
awake. Doctor, how is she?" I find myself in a hospital ward with a doctor
now checking my vitals. But how did I get here? I remember last I was on a
picnic with the family at the nearby woods. And I eat some mushroom I found on
the fallen log by the stream.
"She will be
fine. The effect must have worn off. As I said earlier, your daughter could have
consumed the mushroom containing psilocybe cubensis, which is a hallucinogen
chemical. But it's only temporary. She will be fine now. You can take her back
in an hour."
I find my parents
coming forward to hug me like when I first met Pixie. But my friends from the mushroom
patch are all missing. Maybe I dream of them, or I did live with them when I
was in the dream. I won't know I guess.
It was then David, my brother
came forth to see me.
"Did you see
the mushrooms?"
I nodded. And we
both had a good laugh.
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