Dark Fables for Modernity: The Bear and the Grasshopper

 A bear was trouncing through the woods one day, and stomping upon all the grass, ruining the food for Grasshoppers. Enraged, the Grasshopper confronted the Bear. “You fool,” he said “what an oaf you are, stepping upon my lunch!” The Bear responded in kind, “Aye, but what a fool you are for not eating it before I got here!” And so they went, arguing and debating, while the hyenas surrounded them, and laughed.

            After much heat and frustration, the Bear, sick of the Grasshopper, stepped upon him, and went beck to trouncing the grass. Having witnessed the gruesome sight, one Hyena looked to another and said in a grim tone “Antagonism is the death of persuasion.”