Children’s Stories For Adults, Part 2: a story for no-one: Frank the Caterpillar.
Posted on July 15, 2009 by mister ebby
I know I owe Meadhbh a story, after she asked specifically when commenting on the last one, but that’ll have to wait. This also means that Amanda is wrong – not all my stories are about giraffes! Awesome! I’m a DIVERSE author.
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There once was a caterpillar called Frank who hated the world.
But that was ok, because the world not-so-secretly hated him too.
One day, Frank was walking along, very slowly as caterpillars are wont to do, when it suddenly started to rain.
It rained, and it rained, and it rained some more.
“Fuck this”, thought Frank, as he got very, very wet, “I’m going to hide away from the world. Fuck yis all.”
The world wondered if perhaps it was being too mean to Frank, but then remembered that caterpillars grow up into being beautiful butterflies that are like the popular kids at school, and thought that balanced it out.
So Frank made a cocoon, and hid away from the world.
Time passed.
A little more time passed.
Then, the cocoon opened, and out came Frank version 2.0.
Was he now a beautiful butterfly?
No, unfortunately he was a shit ugly moth and flew straight for the first lightsource he could find.
Which was a UV light insect killer, and Frank got fried.
The End.
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Plz don’t sue me if you cry loads at the sad, sad ending.
Part 2 of an irregular series
Part 1: A Story For Pa
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