Jonsi's Story

Here's an AS story from a WrongPlanet member with a slight twist on things ;) Which still manages to make a lot of sense. Thank you, Jonsi, for the story!

My story begins a long time ago back in the dark age known as 1999, in a forest out in the smoky Manitoban plains. Two bushes stood out prominently in these plains. One had the most beautiful yellow flowers you had ever seen. They were like the bright, shining sun. Its leaves were round and the purest, most luscious green you had ever seen. The one beside it however, had vomit-yellow flowers, like the vomit you'd find in the back of a shady, old bar in the downtown metropolitan area of Winnipeg. This bush's leaves were jagged and sickly. It looked like the thing had come from some mutant, radiation ridden dump.

These two bushes grew together, competing with one another for beauty. The ugly bush never won, of course. He was always laughed at by all the trees and the bushes and the ferns that grew around it. The pretty bush mocked it and mocked it, almost driving the ugly bush to suicide once or twice. The overall morale of the ugly bush was very low because it simply could not change how it looked.

One day, out of the blue, some men came along on a quiet day where the wind was barely blowing and uprooted the pretty bush. The pretty bush was hauled off to be dissected and experimented on, while the ugly bush was happily rooted in the ground. No one would take it away it realized. No one would come to tear it apart in a lab. And why? Because it was just who it was. It persevered and conquered the travails of life.

In the dark and dank year of 2002, a ten-year-old boy was exploring the local plains. He found this plant and thought the flowers looked tasty. And he was right too. He ate and he ate until the plant was nothing but a dead stem. So ended the ugly bush's life. But the ugly bush was happy to go this way because he made the boy a very happy child.

The very next day, the boy was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and he led a very strange yet happy life.

The End.