The Knife and the Cash Crop
...to fashion myself a spear out of a long stick to fish with, but first I would have to learn to like fish, which probably wouldn’t be a problem if I’m starving. So it turns out I can’t stomach fish. It’s a damn good thing I always travel with a bag of assorted seeds from asparagus to zucchini and everything in between. However, while I was swimming those hundred some-odd miles to this blasted desert island the seeds had sprouted and some how merged all together, creating some kind of super mutant plant. Luckily for me, this mutant plant had incredibly fast growing properties and was ready for harvest in just over a week. What a super delicious and nutritious plant this was. Imagine the goodness of strawberries times ten. It was the most juicy, sweet nectar I had ever laid my taste buds on. I lived off this super fruit for I think about seven hundred eighty-six sunrises when I just couldn’t take it anymore. I think blew a delicious fuse in my brain and I couldn’t put it down with out it coming back up. I went down to the surf to catch some fish to try once again, but no, I still wasn’t digging the fish either. I think that’s the point I finally went insane, I started throwing all of the fruit into the fire as to never see it or taste it again, and then something marvelous happened. The aroma of this burning plant was brilliant! I began to feel a slight cloud form over my mind as an enormous hunger filled my belly. The fuse was reset. I fell in love all over again with my super creation. So once again I was content on this blasted desert island, sleeping the days away, as I had nothing else to do but think about how lonely I was. I had come to terms with the fact that I would most likely never see another human for as long as I lived. All of a sudden, the air all around me had become chilly; I could see darkness coming in the form of a cloud. I knew I was in for a wicked storm. The rain started coming down like needles, lightning struck so bright it would blind me for minutes at a time. It went on for hours until my hut was hit with what seemed like a ...