Buster and the Donut Seeds

Arthur is copyrighted by Marc Brown

Authors note: I don't know what to write next for Dead Like Fern, so lets lighten up the tide with a more dubious story.

The cereals mentioned are copyrighted by their respective owners.


This morning was like any other morning, Buster woke up; he was wearing his dinosaur pajamas, being someone who loved to eat, he was often simple minded, he had often annoyed Sue Ellen about being an alien as he didn't really experience different cultures and traditions.

However the only time he did was when he and his father flew all over North America to experience different things with Carlos and Mora.

Aside from his life story he was talked or in his point of view forced into having a bowl of good old fashioned Cheerios, this was the first time he had them. His mother wanted to do changes to his diet as Bio Bits the popular sugary cereal provided little to him. He poured the oat tasting O's into a ceramic bowl, as he poured them his eyes had turned wide; he was ecstatic, "Mom look donut seeds!"

Mrs. Baxter sighed, but chuckled on the inside, she just assumed that he was working the 'junk' out of his system, "Buster it is time for you to go to school."

Buster sighed in some disbelief, "But aren't you fascinated by my discovery?"

To Mrs. Baxter, Cheerios weren't really fascinating, it was a cereal proven time and time again that would lower cholesterol and blood pressure; she knew Buster would most certainly get upset if she said 'no' so she decided to smile at him and say 'yes.'

Buster smiled, he had run to his room and he quickly got changed and walked to school. As he walked he had seen Binky and had caught up with him, "Binky, Binky" Buster yelled excitedly, "You won't believe what I discovered!"

"What?"

As other classmates started walking up to him, in particular Arthur, Sue Ellen and the Brain they wanted to be enlightened by what crazy tale Buster had to say.

"I discovered donut seeds!" Buster said with a huge smile on his face.

Arthur turned to Sue Ellen, "Just smile and nod."

"Donut seeds?" Sue Ellen asked trying not to laugh she managed to laugh a little because of Buster's story.

"Yea, I was pouring myself a bowl of cereal and found these donut seeds, now I can grow donuts!"

Binky was really hyped up because of this obviously, "Cool, show me where you found them and perhaps…"

"Wait…" the Brain warned knowing Buster was completely wrong however a part of him wanted to see where this was going to lead to, he lowered his head, "…Lets go."

They all walked to the grocery store, Buster had soon found the cereal aisle and he led them to the cereal.

"Cheerios?" Arthur asked curiously.

"Yea, I found the donut seeds in this box, don't you see them on the box?"

Arthur was confused, "…no"

Buster being a bit offended tried to explain, "But they are donut seeds! Cheerios, I assume make plain cake donuts, the ones in Honey Nut Cheerios make honey glazed donuts. Frosted Cheerios or donut seeds make frosted donuts; the multi-grain ones make donuts with different grains in them… I guess, the brown sugar ones in the team one makes brown sugar powdered ones and finally…" Buster took a look and saw a box of Fruit Loops, "I didn't know they made fruit flavored donuts!"

The Brain had sighed; this was the stupidest thing he had ever heard, Buster and his ideas of grandeur, "Are you sure you are going to buy all these boxes of cereals just to grow donuts?"

Sue Ellen looked at her watch, "We need to get to school."

Arthur and his friends had left the grocery store, however Buster was looking at the boxes of cereal. Arthur had sighed this was totally embarrassing Buster was dreaming of growing his own donuts.


At school Buster was daydreaming, he was fantasizing himself wearing overalls having a garden hoe and picking some donuts off the vines, to him it was awesome, an unlimited amount of donuts just by buying a box of Cheerios or if he was really fancy then it would be Fruit Loops.

This was probably the greatest scheme in his life; he could eat all the donuts until he either got sick or he was too fat to move and was forced to crash diet. As he continued to fantasize about the donut seeds Mr. Ratburn broke the fantasy to try and get Buster's attention, "Buster," the rabbit boy had noticed that Ratburn had a bagel on his desk and the rabbit boy's eyes had lit up.

Arthur knew exactly what was going to happen, he lowered his head in embarrassment.

Buster looked at the donut, he was absolutely focused on the ring shaped food on Mr. Ratburns desk, and he had decided to speak, "Mr. Ratbum, what type of Cheerios did you use to grow your donuts?" His classmates had chuckled and Buster was offended, "It is true you can grow donuts with 'O' type cereal!" Everyone started to laugh at him, "It is true! I discovered this when I had Cheerios this morning!"

"Mr. Baxter that is a bagel."

Buster was astonished, "Bagel seeds? You grew a bagel? By making the donuts on the plants over-ripen?"

Everyone was laughing at him now.

Buster yelled, "I wish you would all accept my discovery!"

"Buster please calm down," Mr. Ratburn said as he tried to take back control of the classroom.

After class Mr. Ratburn had a talking to Buster, "Buster, I know you feel embarrassed about what happened, but you simply can't grow donuts."

"Yes you can, I seen them in a box of Cheerios."

Mr. Ratburn sighed, "Buster you can't grow bagels and donuts."

Buster had a saddened expression on his face, "But…"

"I will see we can have a class trip to a bakery."

Buster sighed; he knew somehow Mr. Ratburn was just making an excuse to punish him.

To Be Continued.