Fictional Short Story
Once upon a time, there lived a small child named Jessica. She was an orphan who was adopted by a clockmaker named Mr. Taybit.
He was tall and thin.
Mr. Taybit never paid attention to Jessica. So Jessica spent her time reading books with her stuffed bear.
The little teddy bear never left Jessica's side until she was in school. When Jessica came home, the tiny bear was sitting on her bed waiting for her.
One day Mr.Taybit took Jessica to see a circus.
It was the best day of her life.
In one tent there was a man with a puppet. The toy talked like a human. Jessica did not know that the puppet was controlled by a ventriloquist.
She thought the puppet was like Pinocchio. Jessica could not speak well, so she referred to Pinocchio as poppy seed.
When Jessica grew up there was not much she could afford. So the church paid for her to go to a convent, where she would be a nun.
It was all she had and she loved it because she loved god.
God was the closest thing to understanding what it felt like to be loved and accepted.
After Jessica joined the convent, she met a young man her own age named William. William never told the truth. The only reason William signed up to be a priest, was as a joke.
But no one knew.
William took advantage of Jessica's kindness and eventually found a better game to play.
William decided to act like he lost his ability to keep his promise to God because he was in love with Jessica.
William made Jessica fall in love with him. They dated in secret until Jessica found out that she was pregnant.
Then William laughed at her and dumped her. The church kicked her out because she was not a virgin anymore.
Jessica received a job at a office across town. Then she bought a lottery ticket and she won a lot of money.
She used the money to buy a house. She had enough to buy furniture and appliances.
Her son was named Robin Francis.
Jessica read her son story books and she told him the same circus story over and over.
She did not want her son growing up sad or confused.
She was afraid that he would feel unloved by his father and he may feel like a burden on his mother.
Jessica actually saw her son as a blessing because he gave her, her own family.
She was never completely happy with the idea of being a nun.
When Robin Francis grew up he became a famous photographer.
He loved his mother so much.
One day when Robin was in town he bought a puppet from a thrift shop for his mother.
She loved it.
The puppet had a back story that Jessica did not know about yet.
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Oswaldo the great
Oswaldo was a tall man who was thousands of years old.
He was a wizard.
When Oswaldo was a child, his little brother was different. His brother had an insane human for a mother. So he was not immortal like Oswaldo.
The little brother was always running around and getting into everything.
Oswaldo loved his little brother but he could not always be there.
His little brother's name was Crown.
Crown always wanted to play outside instead of inside.
One night when everyone was asleep, Crown went outside to go swimming. It was freezing and Crown got sick.
Then he died.
His ghost stayed around his older brother.
Oswaldo was psychic and he could see his brother.
Crown complained about the other ghost hurting him. So Oswaldo put Crown's spirit into a puppet.
That way he was protected.
There was a relic that was pinned to the puppet's shirt. It locked his brother into the puppet and kept out anyone else.
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3
The tipsy brothers
Jack and Jon were called the tipsy brothers because they liked cake and they were always tipping the bottle.
Jack was married to a tall woman named Cameron. She was a gold digger who had to settle for a marriage to a low life white supremacist. That should be embarrassing because he bullies people. But his wife was pathetic and was only concerned with money.
They were lazy mean liars who took advantage of anyone that they came across.
It did not give them the allure of being a gangster. , or even the concept of being in charge. Actually it made them come off like pathetic leprechauns.
One brother ran an apartment house so he could bully elderly people.
The other brother ran a thrift shop/ pawn shop so he could rob people.
Oswaldo lived in the apartment house owned by the two idiot brothers.
He avoided them as much as he could.
One day Jon saw the inside of Oswaldo 's home. His eyes lit up and Jon knew he found big money.
So Jon called the state to have Oswaldo sent off to a hospital for insane medical care. He lied to the authorities.
Oswaldo was taken down town to be examined. The authorities did not need five minutes to figure out that Oswaldo was healthy and sane.
Jon was a shady man who the authorities received constant complaints about.
So they let Oswaldo go back to his life.
When Oswaldo got home, those bird brained brothers had cleaned out his stuff and evicted Oswaldo.
Oswaldo got a lawyer and sued their cheap assets off.
Oswaldo moved into the same building as Jessica.
Oswaldo realized that Jessica had a puppet. Not just any puppet. It was his little brother Crown.
Oswaldo became friends with Jessica. He told her about the puppet and what the tipsy brothers did to him.
She willingly gave Oswaldo back his puppet.
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Karma
4
Oswaldo changed his appearance with magic and he went into the thrift shop owned by the tipsy brothers.
Once finding his puppet, he wanted to buy back the rest of his things.
Oswaldo put two wooden nickels on the counter to pay.
Jon laughed and mocked him. But while Jon was not paying attention, Oswaldo turned the wooden tokens into solid gold dollars.
It made Jon look stupid for his loud misunderstanding.
The money was real now but it came with a curse. It made Jon more greedy, which made him spend until he was homeless. Because everyone has to pay bills.
Then Jacky bought the apartment house that Oswaldo moved into, so he could pull his nasty tricks there.
And the strangest thing happened. Jacky did not put out a wet floor sign. He tripped into his own ignorance and he died from a bad fall.
The authorities found a wooden button beside him.
The puppet master noticed his brother was missing a button on his shirt.
Everything finally became perfect because no monsters were waiting in the dark corners to attack anyone anymore.
The End
