An Apple a Day
A short walk across the countryside, far away from the troubles of the city – a perfect way to relax and regain – or perhaps to investigate some hidden mysteries behind the facade of innocent rural life? Whatever lead you here, right now you are walking along a small orchard with ripe, red apples. Plop – right down before your feet falls one of the fresh apples, just if it wants to tell you ‘pick me up and eat me’. Well, an apple a day keeps the doctor away...
Possibilities
1 The apple is not from an ordinary tree. The tree is in fact a direct offspring of the Tree of Knowledge from the garden Eden. How it got here, is unknown – its owner bought a couple of ordinary seedlings on the market, and this year would be the first time to harvest.
A bite from one of the apples will give the eater a prophetic look into past (a view into paradise and the origin of the tree) or future events, good (the correct numbers in the lottery) or bad ones (the eater apparently lying dead in a puddle of blood) or really bad ones (a view into hell itself, that will drive the eater mad).
2 The apple is not from an ordinary tree. The tree is possessed by a paranormal creature (demon, dryad, fairy, evil spirit). Through the creature’s magic, the apple’s seed will sprout inside the eater’s stomach, feasting on its blood with its roots, which causes the eater severe stomach’s pain. The creature might order the eater to obey its command to avoid a death caused by an apple tree bursting out of the eater’s stomach – or just grin and tell the eater of his inevitable doom...
3 The apple is from an ordinary tree. The tree belongs to Mr Jones, a farmer always carrying a shotgun and avoided by his neighbours who consider him to be completely mad. Mr Jones believes in the values of private property. Thieves, including people who steal his apples, are punished by doing hard labour in chains. And so far no one has ever pressed charges against Mr Jones...
© Philipp Mählmann
A short walk across the countryside, far away from the troubles of the city – a perfect way to relax and regain – or perhaps to investigate some hidden mysteries behind the facade of innocent rural life? Whatever lead you here, right now you are walking along a small orchard with ripe, red apples. Plop – right down before your feet falls one of the fresh apples, just if it wants to tell you ‘pick me up and eat me’. Well, an apple a day keeps the doctor away...
Possibilities
1 The apple is not from an ordinary tree. The tree is in fact a direct offspring of the Tree of Knowledge from the garden Eden. How it got here, is unknown – its owner bought a couple of ordinary seedlings on the market, and this year would be the first time to harvest.
A bite from one of the apples will give the eater a prophetic look into past (a view into paradise and the origin of the tree) or future events, good (the correct numbers in the lottery) or bad ones (the eater apparently lying dead in a puddle of blood) or really bad ones (a view into hell itself, that will drive the eater mad).
2 The apple is not from an ordinary tree. The tree is possessed by a paranormal creature (demon, dryad, fairy, evil spirit). Through the creature’s magic, the apple’s seed will sprout inside the eater’s stomach, feasting on its blood with its roots, which causes the eater severe stomach’s pain. The creature might order the eater to obey its command to avoid a death caused by an apple tree bursting out of the eater’s stomach – or just grin and tell the eater of his inevitable doom...
3 The apple is from an ordinary tree. The tree belongs to Mr Jones, a farmer always carrying a shotgun and avoided by his neighbours who consider him to be completely mad. Mr Jones believes in the values of private property. Thieves, including people who steal his apples, are punished by doing hard labour in chains. And so far no one has ever pressed charges against Mr Jones...
© Philipp Mählmann