three wayside stories

[asakiyume]

One: The Sparrow Entrepreneurs




You can have a shopping cart, but you must pay to rent them.

The rent is cheap though: a few crumbs of bread or bits of cracker will buy you several hours.

Don't forget to pay the ones who live below, too:






Two: The Stream Thorns

In winter, this stream grows giant thorns. They make good swords, I'm told: the blood of those they strike congeals into rubies and garnets.






Three: The Glazier and the Vandal

The glazier and the vandal play a game here. No one else knows the rules, except that when the glazier scores, a window pane appears, and when the vandal scores, a window pane disappears.

Comments

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

Sometimes while waiting in the parking lot, I watch the finches peck bug parts out of radiators and tires, or flit away with a stray french fry in their beaks. I think of Charles Darwin and his speciation theory and think that one day, hundreds if not thousands of years from now, a species of finch will become endangered because GM or Ford discontinued radiators in their cars, and their beaks will have become so specialized to that shape that the birds can no longer survive without them to provide tasty bug tussels for sustenance.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They'll have to put GM or Ford in the species name of that finch. Carpodaxus fordum. Carpodaxus generalis motorii.

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

Ha! I like it!