Short Story

The Potato Peeler

There once as a young potato named Spunkelman. She was born and raised on a farm in Montreal Canada. The farm was named Rooster Heath because before the farmers got there it was a wasteland covered with shrubs, but they cleaned it up and turned it into a farm. The farmers worked at a chicken farm before they decided to grow veggies. The farm owner was named Dan Gruchy but the other farm hand called him "Dan the Man". Spunkelman lived with her mother Kara and her father Burnie as well as her brother "Little Spud" but his real name was Gavin. Spunkelman lived a good life, well as good a life as a potato could have. The only thing that she didn't like about the farm was some of the other veggies, mostly the carrots though. One carrot in particular, his name was Michael and he would pick n Spunkelman about her weight, the weird green bump on her, as well as other things. I forgot t mention that Spunkelman was born with a strange green bump. Her family just thought it was really rare or like a birthmark equivalent to a potato. Anyways back to Michael or what his friends called him "24 Karrot". They called him that because he was a rotten carrot with an even rottener attitude. Since he was rotten his skin was a yellowish-brown instead of the normal orange. He looked almost gold so they nick-named him "24 Karrot". One day while Spunkelman was hanging out with her Sp(B)uds, Michael walked up to her and started picking on her "Hey Spunkelman what are you and your small fry-friends doing" he said. She didn't respond. "I bet your too chicken to sleep in the crate by farmer Dan's house" said Michael. She had heard that farmer Dan would load up that crate with potato's and in the night two men would put then crate in the back of a truck, never to been seen again. But Spunkelman thought those were just tales. She accepted Michael's challenge and rolled herself towards farmer Dan's house. It took her all day but she eventually made it there. The moon was just rising and she was tired so she slipped int the crate through a small hole in the side just small enough for her to fit through. She was relieved to see no other potato's on the inside and she drifted to sleep. She felt something big hit her in the head and woke up to see the crate filled with other potato's. Spunkelman was wedged against the wall of the crate by the other potato's and she couldn't move. The crate started to move, Spunkelman looked through the crack in the side of the crate to see two men carrying it. They looked like mechanics minus the overalls, they had name tags. One was a Puerto Rican man with short black hair with the name tag "Ray", the other a white man with a curly mustache so perfect it was almost like a cartoon, his nametag said "Geoff". "Come on Narvaez Jr. pull your weight" said Geoff. Spunkelman saw a truck labelled "Gus's World Famous Shingle's". It had said Pringle's but some teenagers spray painted over the "P" and the "R" and replaced it with "S" and "H". The workers handed the crate to a worker in the back of the truck. He had blonde short hair and was white, he had a name tag that said "Ryan". Ray said "That's the last one" then got in the truck with Geoff, Ryan Closed the back door and sat in the back making sure that none of the crates spilled as the truck moved. Spunkelman couldn't see that much but could make out about 42 other crates. It was almost pitch black and the only light was coming from the dim glow from Ryan's phone. Spunkelman was so scared and wondered what they wanted with so many potato's. she laid awake all night wondering what Gus's world famous Shingles were, she was scared to find out. She laid awake until the truck came to a stop. Ryan got up and opened the back door of the truck then started grabbing crates and handing them to Ray and Geoff who would leave with them for a couple of minutes, then return to get another. They finally grabbed the one Spunkelman was in. As they were moving with her crate she looked through the crack, she was in a factory of some sort. She was dumped onto a conveyor belt. Beside her was another conveyor belt that had large metal tubes being wrapped with red paper that had writing on it. "Pringle's". It didnt say shingles on the truck it said Pringle's! Spunkelman had heard of Pringle's, her mother told her that her grandma Sweet Potato was turned into Pringle's. She had to get out of there but it was too late. A large man with a beard grabbed Spunkelman. He was holding a knife and was wearing gloves and a mask. She made out his name even though it was a very brief look at him and it said "Jack". She didn't see him for long because he had turned her over. She thought to herself how could it end this way, in such a horrible way when suddenly Jack dropped her into a garbage can filled with other potato's. Jack turned to a co-worker and said "It's a shame that whole bunch of potato's were infected". It was the green bump that saved Spunkelman. "Spunkelman is that you?". Spunkelman looked over to see her parents and her brother next to her. They all had green bumps now as well, she must have spread it to them during the truck ride, they were in one of the other crates she guessed, A day later Spunkelman and her family as well as tons of other Potato's were all sent to a landfill. They all live Happily together.

The End