on mushrooms

it can be so hard sometimes to find food without mushrooms. they are one of those things that everybody wants to sneak into your food. whenever you order “vegetables” your food arrives with vegetables and fungi. I wish we could pass a law making it illegal to consider mushrooms vegetables. they aren’t even plants for christ sakes. they are biologically more similar to animals than they are to plants. now i know there is some discrepency about what defines something as a vegetable, but i think we can at least agree than in order to be a vegetable something must at least be a plant.

please stop sneaking shrooms into my veggies. that is all i have to say. thank you.

Psychic Sponge

Jef was born with a peculiar type of autism. Jef’s autism rendered him vulnerable to whatever psychic noise filled his environment. Jef never developed any emotions of his own. He simply, intensely, absorbed and reproduced the emotions that were emanating from the people around him. Often he would reflect others’ emotions more clearly and more vividly than they themselves would. Occasionally he would find himself trapped in emotional feedback loops with others as they witnessed their own grief or joy or embarrassment leak out from their hearts, into, then out of the boy.

Jef committed suicide at age twelve while in the presence of a bereaved Japanese businessman.