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Topic: Illustrate the meaning of “A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush” (without using the actual phrase or literal example). (01/10/08)
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TITLE: The Miracle Inn | Previous Challenge Entry
By Thomas Ortiz
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In the days of prosperity and travelers the Inn had been a sanctuary for the wealthy. Its hot mineral springs boasted miracle cures. People from all over the apple blossom country would ride by train and stop in the small town. The small town had become an exhibition of prosperity with its rare concentration of mantis. The small town thrived during that time, regarded a waiting place for those travelers on their way to the Miracle Inn. Rich men with potbellies and amethyst watches would buy diamonds and eat animal fat and cake in the small town. Their beautiful wives would mill about desperately searching for the perfect emerald dress. During that time the relic shop was a place in which falcons and parrots were sold as pets. Also in that time a callous young woman who had come from the steppes of Russia concocted an unusual delicacy. She had discovered a way to transform the mantis into an iniquitous confection. She would boil the mantis alive in a sweetened mixture of nettle leaves, raspberry essence and spider webs. Then cover them with dark Bavarian chocolate for spice. The travelers would gorge themselves with the sinful candies then purge themselves and return to gorge themselves again. They could not stop. There has been no greater obsessive craving, since time immemorial, than the irresistible compulsion to consume her spiteful, chocolaty confections. Finally, out of satisfied pity, the young Russian woman would turn the obsessed travelers away and set her sights on the next trainload of quarry. No one knows what the young Russian woman did with the wealth that she had stock piled during that time. She had stolen the desire for miracles and used it for her own infected purpose. For this, she had condemned herself to that small town for the rest of her days, and her travelers had blinded themselves to providence. Then, without warning, the apple blossom country fell into neglect and mediocrity set in. As all things that no longer have the notion to strive, the Miracle Inn began to fade. When the great depression came and the springs dried up, the Inn was abandoned and fell into decay.
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Just a note-add a few spaces for easier reading. Just hit enter at the beginning of every paragraph and presto
instant spaces! ^_^
Nice story-telling tone.