Elisson was late for this past week's Weekly Challenge, so I'm posting his story today, apart from the bulk of the entries.
If I had a polling system that would let me add entries on the fly, sure, I'm have edited this story in. But I don't, and it wouldn't be fair to those that sent their entries in on time.
Hopefully, he won't get his... um... Shorts In A Wad over this, which just happens to the the title of his book. (I really need to get off my fat ass and write a review of it on Amazon, eh)
Americans are familiar with the story of Johnny Appleseed, who walked the length and breadth of the land while sowing the seeds of the great MacIntosh, Winesap, and Cortland, laying the foundations for today's mighty orchards.
Alas, the story of Sidney Sunsweet is not nearly as well known. But Sidney walked the length and breadth of America ten years before Johnny was out of knee-pants, scattering seeds wherever he went. Prune seeds.
For Sidney was an aficionado of the Noble Prune, the "fruit that eats like a meal." His motto?
"Eat Fruit with the Wrinkling: You'll crap in a twinkling."