Absurd potato stories and curious essays

Prose Potato

Read absurd potato stories, curious philosophical essays, office-life comedy, and reflective writing about identity, meaning, silence, and everyday strangeness.

Begin the Dig

Choose Your Trail

Pick a doorway: reflective crumbs, strange stories, or everyday absurdity with a suspiciously sincere center.

Curious Insights

Questions that begin plainly and then wander into meaning, identity, silence, and the occasional seasoned potato.

Stories

Narrative oddities, dramatic awakenings, and small absurd worlds taking themselves just seriously enough.

Life

Work, rituals, deadlines, holidays, and the ordinary pressure of being a sentient root vegetable in public.

Freshly Unearthed

Newest pieces from the soil, surfaced automatically before they have time to behave.

Stories

The Great Chaat Masala Scandal

An absurd kitchen mystery about chaat masala, dramatic suspects, and the chaos that begins when seasoning appears where it should not.
Life

The Evening the Kitchen Became Philosophical

A comic kitchen story where vegetables become philosophical, dinner turns strange, and a potato listens as ordinary ingredients develop opinions.
Life

Why Do We Season Potatoes?

A reflective philosophical essay on why we season potatoes, what it means to be enough, and how identity changes under pressure.
Life

Potato Stared at Work and Work Stared Back

A comic office-life story about deadlines, fluorescent lights, and a potato staring at work until work stares back.
Curious Insights

Renewed Annually, Doubt Included

A self-aware story about a website, an annual renewal, and a potato trying to understand doubt, identity, and digital existence.
Life

The Potato Who Did Not Believe in Christmas

A festive absurd potato story about belief, misunderstanding, dirt, and the universe explaining itself badly.