If At First You Don't Succeed

100-word story

Johnny Appleseed sighed and pondered his pail of broken blueberries. “Davy, we ain’t doing so good.” 

Davy Crockett chuckled. “No, John, we’re not.” He plucked and ate a berry. 

Appleseed peered downslope at Anchorage, Alaska, at the Cook Inlet’s oil-slicked waters.

“What’re we gonna do now that we’ve paved the last frontier?”

Raven, perched high in a birch…