I worte this short story for school. Thought I'd share it!
I see all
Madra did not use cards or crystal balls to see into the future, instead she relied on her dreams. When she would tell fortunes she would fall into a trance, a dream like state, and she believed that she could tell a persons future. Once she told Jibari, the goat herder, to stop herding goats as they were going to trample him, and he sold his heard and became a chicken rancher. He did not enjoy chickens, but they weren't going to trample him to death. “Yes,” thought Madra, “I've done another good deed for this world, I've saved Jibari's life”. People changed their whole lives, “for the better according to what I say” Madra said.
One night when Madra came back from her hard work, she lay down and drifted into a deep trance. The only thing that was different this time was that the vision was about her. In the vision she was walking on the cracked sidewalk she used everyday to go to work.. Suddenly out of the corner of her eye she saw a large green bus charging toward her at an enormous rate of speed. She woke up suddenly with her heart racing. She knew she was going to die, for she could see all.
Madra decided she would never go to work again, then she would never be killed by the bus. The only problem was since she didn't go to work, she wasn't paid. Since she wasn't paid she couldn't buy anything. After three weeks of exile in her home, Madra was tearing apart her kitchen looking for something to eat. Madra decided that if the great Spirit decided the great Madra was going to die, she would accept her fate. So, off to work she went.
Madra started out her day like any other. Strangely enough it ended in the same fashion. After a year, of expecting to be hit by a bus, Madra began to think about her dream. “Perhaps I can't tell the future” Madra thought to herself, “and besides which I have never even seen a green bus! Have I been lying to all these people? Have I been lying to myself? It's time to stop living in my dream world and awaken!” Six years later Madra had moved to New York city and opened her law practice. Unfortunately for Jibara, he is still chicken ranching, even though found out he is allergic to chickens.
I see all
Madra did not use cards or crystal balls to see into the future, instead she relied on her dreams. When she would tell fortunes she would fall into a trance, a dream like state, and she believed that she could tell a persons future. Once she told Jibari, the goat herder, to stop herding goats as they were going to trample him, and he sold his heard and became a chicken rancher. He did not enjoy chickens, but they weren't going to trample him to death. “Yes,” thought Madra, “I've done another good deed for this world, I've saved Jibari's life”. People changed their whole lives, “for the better according to what I say” Madra said.
One night when Madra came back from her hard work, she lay down and drifted into a deep trance. The only thing that was different this time was that the vision was about her. In the vision she was walking on the cracked sidewalk she used everyday to go to work.. Suddenly out of the corner of her eye she saw a large green bus charging toward her at an enormous rate of speed. She woke up suddenly with her heart racing. She knew she was going to die, for she could see all.
Madra decided she would never go to work again, then she would never be killed by the bus. The only problem was since she didn't go to work, she wasn't paid. Since she wasn't paid she couldn't buy anything. After three weeks of exile in her home, Madra was tearing apart her kitchen looking for something to eat. Madra decided that if the great Spirit decided the great Madra was going to die, she would accept her fate. So, off to work she went.
Madra started out her day like any other. Strangely enough it ended in the same fashion. After a year, of expecting to be hit by a bus, Madra began to think about her dream. “Perhaps I can't tell the future” Madra thought to herself, “and besides which I have never even seen a green bus! Have I been lying to all these people? Have I been lying to myself? It's time to stop living in my dream world and awaken!” Six years later Madra had moved to New York city and opened her law practice. Unfortunately for Jibara, he is still chicken ranching, even though found out he is allergic to chickens.
