50wordstories.ca » diseased https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Herb Garden https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=179 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=179#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:00:18 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=179 She was trimming her herb garden, busily pulling out all the weeds, removing the diseased or dying parts of otherwise viable plants.

Some varieties of herbs she’d planted were proliferating more than expected, stifling others.

That wouldn’t do.

“What’cha doin’ ?” asked her neighbor.

“Oh, right now, I’m just killing thyme.”

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