A parable

[kaboom172]

Once upon a time, there was a middle-class white girl who was walking down a busy, commercialized street in her city. She passed a bench, and happened to notice a copy of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist sitting upon it, apparently forgotten or abandoned. She had not read it before, but, having an interesting and generally fruitful history with

Comments

[duya_intermezzo]

I'm deeply troubled by the glaring lack of any scruffy sidekicks in this story of yours.

[kaboom172]

No wonder -- there were only shifty sidekicks.

[duya_intermezzo]

so shifty they shiftied their way out of the story? sweeeeet