12 Steps to Unleashing your Inner Squid (standard:other, 453 words)
Author: VenomousLobster	Added: Jan 01 2001	Views/Reads: 3705/1	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A daisy is plucked from a meadow. Empires rise and fall. A house is built, children are reared, a marriage is broken. A legend is born. A box of saltines goes stale and has to be thrown out.

It is a dark night in the Canyon of the Winds.  A somnolent coyote sways
sleepily, and then, tipping off the precipice it stands on, plunges 
into the yawning chasm.  Its dire howl keens through the night and 
abruptly ends in a dull thud, and muffled crunch as the wretched cur is 
dashed against the stalwart rocks at the bottom of the great trench. 
Hours passed, our massive stone turned, the drowsy sun rose and fell 
many times, the coyote changed.  Soon it came to pass that, at the 
beginning of the 27th time the sultry flaming orb rolled above this 
Canyon since the coyote had come to be there, grass began to sprout 
upon the coyote, placed as was the fur on the coyote's hide.  Then the 
coyote stood, its body sheathed in a perfect viridescent cloak.  It 
arched its back and two great leaves sprouted from therein, leaves so 
large as to become wings, and with that, the coyote that was dead rose 
into the air, howling balefully, as it soared away to chase the sun. 

As this heavenly beast soared into the air, the moon shone down upon
three lemmings.  Two of these lemmings were having an argument.  One of 
the lemmings was a girl lemming, her name was Aurora.  A beautiful 
creature, her fur shimmered in the moonlight. She watched the  two male 
lemmings arguing over her, for Aurora was tangled up in a horrific love 
triangle with the two lemmings there, she didn't know who she wanted 
she only knew that she had brought about this confrontation.  Her eyes 
watered with indecision as they darted to each of the strong male 
rodents locked in mortal combat, she knew one word from her would end 
this duel, she looked first to her old friend, Alflathar, she had 
always felt a strong bond to Alflathar, their families had had them 
promised to each other once she reached an age at which marriage was 
seemly (two weeks) but it had been delayed for one or another reason.  
Although she did feel strongly toward him, she couldn't help feel as 
though she was Alflathar's sister, in away... because she was his 
sister, but that didn't bother her up until two days ago when she met a 
strange foreigner, one that was not entirely lemming, his mother was an 
escaped hamster, his father was a lemming, and his name was Sprinkles.  
Aurora was entranced by Sprinkles, she could not stop watching him, his 
delicately crossed eyes, his teeth, the color of aged rosewood, they 
arched upward toward his throbbing Vermillion nostril ever so gently.  
But none of this mattered because they were all crushed by an errant 
coyote falling off a Canyon precipice 


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