Taiga+Fiction

Berrie, a 420 pound grizzly bear was walking through the woods one day when he said “boy I sure am hungry…” so he wobbled off into the woods not knowing that a berry patch was about 100 feet behind him. “…Some berries would be nice.”

After walking a while he came to the stream and looked into the water. He was surprised to see his friend, Bobo the duck billed platypus. “Hi (cough, cough) how are (choke) you berrie?”

“I am well” berrie said with a worried look in his eyes. “you don’t look very good at all.”

“No I don’t feel good, I have giardisis.”

“Oh no! How did you get it?”

“I think it was the berries at the patch down the way,” he said in mid choke “you were probably going to.”

“Yes I was, I’ll have to go to the one down the stream. Bye!” so waddled to the stream and floated down.

While he was swimming down the stream he got a sudden itch. So he stopped and found the best tre available. He scratched and scratched until he had worn down the bark on the tree, only to find that the tree was covered in // Phellinus nigrolimitatus // or red ring rot. This berrie was highly allergic to and he screamed out in pain “ouuuuuch!” Behind him, a glitter of silver caught him in the corner of his eye flashed by. He jumped in the water knowing a short fish snack was on its way.

The fish was loud at all of what it did. From swimming to gurgling the fish was just plain loud. All of the sudden he realized it was a Large Mouthed bass and true to that, his favorite meal.

“Quit following me!” it said. And before it knew what hit him, Berrie gobbled it up whole

“Yum!” he said, content with his snack.



After floating downstream awhile Berrie with all of his food loving instincts began to wonder, “hey I was going to the berry patch.” So he looked around to be pleasantly surprised by what he found. “Well hey! I’ve floated all of the way to the berry patch!”





Berrie was overjoyed, he dove in. Berrie ignored the returning pain of the allergic reaction and of the scraping points on the stalks of each bush. Once again content with his tummy, he set off for an afternoon nap. After about an hour, he had that wonderful urge of going no 2. After doing his business, he thought to himself “well the berries filled my stomach so the least I could do was spread its yummy joy around.” And he hobbled away wondering which way was home.

Alexis F.

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