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No day spent at Nimm's home would have suggested

  • No day spent at Nimm's home would have suggested to the visitor that another seven billion people were crawling over the planet more or less simultaneously. The island was all his.

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  • Nimm was relieved that there was no one around to make fun of his last name ("Rod"). But one day while he was skinning a boar, he saw a booze cruise headed straight for his island.

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  • Nimm liked the primal solitude of his island & intended to keep it that way but cold brewskis and a few boozy bimbos would make a welcome diversion. He decided to waylay the cruise

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  • child because honestly, who really gives a shit about Tom's kids? How Tom and his dopey wife got on Nimm's isolated island was a mystery. Nimm decided

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  • that all there was really left to do was breathe. So, she found a remote location under the shade of a shrub, laid down on her back, closed her eyes...inhale, exhale; inhale-

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  • reverting to her primal essence, she found she could photosynthesize. She adjusted her head to follow the sun. Empowered, she developed tap roots in her toes. A rescue copter flew

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  • over her top branches and she felt the rage flow through her xylem and phloem as she reached out a planty limb to smash the intruders in the rescue copter into smithereens. She

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  • turned around only to see more of them, igniting her roots with a vicious flamethrower. after stomping them, she finally made her escape.

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  • She ran as only a sentient walking tree can. That is to say, very slowly. But her pursuers soon gave up the chase, deciding that really they didn't need her to make cheap

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  • hamster bedding. The brush with death brightened the colors and scents of her world, for we are but flowers of a summer day, who blossom with brambly dreams before the long night.

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