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Jan 11, 2018 2:27 AM CST Once Upon a Time
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Once upon a time


In a time
BEFORE time
Before history
Before ANYTHING

In a place
FAR from ANYWHERE
There sat an old magician
Contemplating eternity

Now
Contemplating eternity
Takes a LOOONNG time

So
EVENTUALLY
The old magician became bored
with all his contemplating

And so he stopped contemplating
And started looking around
And
As far as he could see
For miles and miles
All around him
There was nothing
And nobody

And the old magician started thinking about THAT
And he decided that it would be nice
If there was
Something he could do
Somewhere he could go
Somebody he could talk to

So
Being a magian
He decide he would create hinself
A place that he could go
A place where there would be something for him to do
A place where he could find somebody to talk to

He waved his magic wand
He pronounced his incantations
And
Out of the nothingness all around him
A Faerieland was formed

And
IN this Faerieland
Were ALL the creatures that exist
There were opposums
And mighty whales
Bigger than ANY whales
Today
And chipmunks
And trees
And dragonflies
And all sorts of beings

But there was one VERY special being
This neing
WASN'T like ANY other being

This being
Was self aware

And
Being self aware
He KNEW he was different
From every other being

He ate
And slept
And reproduced
And EVERYTHING
That every other being did

But
In his geart
He KNEW that he was
DIFFERENT

He didn't know HOW he was different
But he just felt
In his heart
And in his bones
And in his gallblader
HE
Was different

And
While he was thinking about it
He heard a voice

Now
He had NEVER heard a voice
Before
So he JUMPED

He looked west
He looked east
He looked north
He looked south
He looked up
He looked down
He looked ALL AROUND

But he COULDN'T "see" ANYBODY

And THAT
Sorta CONFUSED him

So he sat down
To think about this voice

But
Having never heard a voice before
He couldn't make any sense out of it

He scratched his ear
He put his chin on his knuckles
He flicked the ant off his knee
And he pondered

WHAT was that loud noise
In his head
That none of the OTHER beings heard

At least
He didn't THINk they heard
None of THEM had jumped

So he looked around
Again
Just checking
No
None of the other beings seemed disturbed

THEN
He heard it AGAIN
Well
MAYBE
Sorta
Kinda
He THOUGHT he heard it

But he wasn't sure

But THIS time
He thought he UNDERSTOOD it
It said

BEHOLD
I
Am the old magician
And I'd like to talk to you

The being looked ALL around
He couldn't see anybody
Anywhere

And none of the other beings seem to have heard anythng

The deer were grazing in the glade
The squirels were gathering acorns
The trees were swaying in the breeze
The flies were buzzing
The ant was crawling up his leg again

Everything seemed
Cool
Calm
Collected
EXCEPT
Him

He stood up
He looked at the ground
Where he had been sitting
Nothing
He looked up
Just tree limbs and leaves
He caught a movement out of the corner of his eye
He looked
Just a butterfly
And three honey bees


Alright. I'm DONE, for tonight. If you'd like to hear the REST of the story, tell me. Or YOU pick it up, and add YOUR part, to OUR story! Are there any STORY TELLERS, still alive, and loose, out there, in the FREE world?
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