Jack and the Beans Talk
A fresh-faced lad, let's call him Jack, was sent by his poorly mum to bring the cow to market so that they could buy some yucky groats and survive the winter sitting on hard stools in the dark complaining. The boy was a bumpkin, a punter, and a sucker, and so immediately sold his cow to a witch for a small handful of bobbyburns beans.
The beans were like nothing the lad had ever seen, bright orange with little blue spots, happy little beans were they. The witch told him to only use one bean at a time, or consequences would happen.
The boy felt sure he had made a fair deal, buying the magic beans. But as soon as the witch turned yonder corner with cow, the boy knew he would get his ass whupped by mum as soon as she saw what he had done. So instead of going home, he went into the forest and sat next to a rock until he was very cold and hungry. He ate some wild mushrooms growing in a moist lump, deciding that he’d either live or die as a result, and that was okay, and then he lay down to sleep.
Much to his surprise, he did not sleep but felt a tingling in his brain. And before his eyes the magic beans grew into giant yet friendly orange and blue creatures who told him interesting secrets and danced with him among the ancient oaks, making elf-like noises and swirling in the leaves and stars. The boy was happy.
He and his special leguminous friends took up residence in the woods, eating mushrooms now and then and occasionally bringing some fungi into town to sell to curious schoolchildren. Then they would buy some delicious packaged sandwiches, perhaps a string of linked sausages, and with the rest invest in superior electronic equipment to improve their woodland sound system.
And so the boy lived, until, like Dennis Hopper before him, he decided he wanted to direct, so he brushed the leaf mold out of his ears, straightened out his act, and went to Hollywood. And he carried the magic bobbyburns beans in his pocketses ever after, whispering to them in the quiet of the evening on his shady lanai.
The End