Glimbo

Glimbo found a mushroom

glowing under a fern.

Blink.

Glimbo blinked back.

Blink.

The mushroom

blinked again.

Glimbo blinked twice.

The mushroom blinked

three times.

A beetle wandered

between them.

Its elbows lit up.

BLINK.

Glimbo stared.

The mushroom stared.

The beetle kept walking.

Apparently it had won.

Sometimes the forest

picks the winner.

— Spunky Mind