Wednesday, June 21, 2017

"The Weed" a short story by Craig Zimmerman

Jason Taylor's lawn was his pride and joy. As usual, on Monday morning Jason made a slow survey of his yard to see if any imperfections had cropped up overnight. Everything was fine until he noticed the big-fat ugly weed in the center of the lawn.

Jason left his breakfast and rushed to the garage where he picked up a small shovel and some weed killer. Once outside, Jason quickly dug up the weed and sprayed the spot with weed killer. After work, he would try and repair the small hole.

Jason was annoyed by the weed for the entire day and had difficulty concentrating on his work. More then once his boss frowned at him. 

After work. Jason went to work on the damage left by the weed. It was nearly midnight when he went to bed. The next morning, Jason was enraged to find that the weed had somehow grown back in the same spot.

Once again, Jason went to the garage to get a shovel and weed killer. After removing the weed and spraying the herbicide, he also put a patch over the hole.

Jason spent much of the next workday researching weeds and at the end of the day, his boss informed him that he was going to be terminated. Jason didn't protest, he was anxious to get back home and check his yard.

Not only was the largest weed in the center back, but smaller weeds now covered the yard. Jason hacked the weeds to pieces and then dumped all of his remaining weed killer on the lawn.

For the rest of the night, Jason looked  on the web for the most effective weed killer. He finally found a product that was guaranteed to kill every kind of weed permanently.

Several days later, a case of the weed killer arrived. Jason sprayed his entire lawn with the weed killer. The herbicide killed every speck of life on the lawn. A rainstorm spread the poison to other yards and killed everything there as well. 


The area became so poisonous, that it was condemned by the EPA and the residents were forced to evacuate.

As Jason was preparing to leave his home, he noticed a big, fat, ugly weed growing in the bare ground that was once his lawn.


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