An Alien Grew a Perfect Pumpkin to Beat an Old Farmer... It Was Half His | HFY Comedy

Jud Pickett has finished second at the county pumpkin weigh-off eleven years running. This year an alien botanist asks him for a seed, rents his back acre, and grows a scientifically perfect pumpkin to beat him. The scale says she won. Her own log says otherwise. A warm, funny Halloween and harvest HFY story about giant pumpkins, frosty mornings, a box of matches carried for thirty-nine years, and the one rule every grower keeps. Second to Himself. An original sci-fi story written for Rocket Ship Radio. Chapters: 0:00 That's Twelve 1:47 Never Sell a Seed 2:31 Two Patches 4:02 Flower Was Open 4:58 Fifty Pounds a Day 5:50 First Light 6:24 The Weigh-Off 7:42 Grown and Cared For 9:31 Halloween on the Courthouse Steps 10:02 The First Match Subscribe for more original sci-fi stories:    / @rocketshipradio   Should Jud have taken the blue ribbon when Pava tried to withdraw? Tell me in the comments. #hfy #scifi #scifistory