FABLE ABEL

“Hello!” Dickey Hendricks greeted the curious animal in the forest.

“Hello.”

“Boy, you’re funny looking!  Who are you?”

“I’m Fable Abel.”

“Who’s that?”

“The main character in a fable about just being yourself.”

“Tell me.”

“Well, my author created me to be a zebra. He gave me these hind legs. But then I saw a tiger and insisted on becoming a tiger instead. But when I saw a giraffe, I begged my author to make me a giraffe. But just as he was drawing my head, I saw an elephant and shouted, ‘No, I want to be an elephant with a looooong trunk!’”

“Oh my!  So what are you now?”

“A lesson for boys and girls like you.”

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( I confess I’m 19 words over, but I like it the way it is, so I’m posting it anyway.)

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