Hi Everyone! Emily and I were being cool and she was showing me this link... which I shall share with you at the end of this post. First though, I have a short story I just made up.
Enjoy!
I was walking along, minding my own business when SUDDENLY a strange urge came over me. I decided I wanted to... BECOME A BIRD. So anyway, I went to the local bookshop and bought "Magic For Dummies". Went home and practiced. It looked easy. I could make coins and handkerchiefs disappear. At the same time... I decided to have some birthday whiskey my mum had given me a few years back. I'd never got around to opening it. I was having such a ball. "Man I feel like a woman" was playing and I turned it up and danced around. I got the book again, opened it to the "animals" page. There was a picture of something that resembled a bird... at least I thought it was..
So I read the magic words.
I said them out loud. I mighta slurred a bit, but it seemed perfectly fine.
Then, when done, I stumbled to bed.
The next day... I woke up feeling strange.. I walked slowly to the mirror. At least I think I walked...
There .. staring back at me
was a huge.. shiny...
GOLDEN ASS!
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Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Nice. I actually think that Kafka may have been influenced by this book when he wrote his Metamorphosis.
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That beginning's pretty close to your ending there. ;)