<><><><><><><><><><>"The Wishing Toad"<><><><><><><><><><><>
***********************By Ricky1024**************************************

"Once upon a 'Toad of Time' when 'Winters Regrets' met 'Summers Delight' there lived a little toad who cried...
"Throughout the night...
...
"Why God why can I not get it Right?" He complained.
"And why do I have to look so hideous and hide?"
"You see all can not be and the eye is in the beholder!" Answered God.
...
"Welcome back to Fan Story and this is his narrator Annie Oakley the greatest, female, sharp-shooter West of the Mississippi!"
Ricky's got himself a damn winner here!"
"So, hold on to your horses cow-kids and reviewers and I'ill see ye all at the buttered end?"
Annie...

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"And once upon a time when love was just a lonely place lived a toad.
"The towns folk called him 'Toferler' which meant "Horrid and Lonely One!"
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"Tofeler was abandoned at birth for he was different."
"He had only one arm and one leg and one eye!"
"Oh me oh my Ricky!" Stated Annie.
'Yes Annie and also where there should have been a mouth there was just a hideous hole that drooled!"
"However...
...
"When fine day {as I remember] in the month of May...
"There was a pond of clarity and this is where I first met the Tofeler Toad praying with sincerity...
"Hi my name is Ricky and I know your story!" I said.
"How do you know me not?" He Relied with a tear in his single of eye...
"Well, I am creating this children's story for my second...
"Shed a Tear" book." I Replied.
"Well, then make it go away! "Toferler cried out.
'Well, I will try for even you as sickly as you are with leg and arm of one and only an eye deserve better by far."
"So pray and pray and I will return one day...
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"Winters Regret" cried and cried out but "Summers Delight" had ended long before that night...
"Falls Return" brought leaves of "Amber Life" and then as I write with this pen...
"There was a tremendous cry for help!"
"The little and lonely female toadette named "Shadows Rift" which meant "Horrid of Look' fell deep into a well!"
"I have to do something quick but what? "
"I am only a shy and weak of toad but Ricky said...
"I will be there for you..
"Help me help me!" She cried.
"I will try!" He said.
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"Help me!" He prayed.
"Ricky I'm praying for help; but there is no 'Wishing Pond!' He cried out with drool from the eye!
"Help me help her as she is drowning!" He cried out again.
"Help me my name is Shado....
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"Suddenly a rope of thick twine fell from the sky!"
"With a tear of blaze in his eye he tied it to a tree and shaking violently, went down...
"Down to the bottom where she was gone!'
"So he dove below and returned with care."
"Out of the well, He laid the lifeless, little, female, toad gently down on the soft ground....
"Not a breath, so, so, close to death...
"Oh God or Ricky help me...
"To help she!"
"Just shed a single tear my son and then and only then will it be done! Stated a voice.
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"He cried out and shed a single tear upon the face of the one so, far, but ...
'So near.. And within a moment the lass did grasp and hold his hand...
"Slowly her breathing again began...
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"That was "The Falls Return' which blended with and became "The Summers Delight" and finally for the two so hideous of view...
"There was peace and a family of horrid and little toads but then...
"Who was to know?"
The End.

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"Ah I can't stop crying!"
"Well this is Annie and the lesson to be is even those born and abandoned out of luck can be...
"More then meets he or thee!"
"And beauty is in the eye of the beholder and beauty is not on the surface but skin deep!' BYE.
Annie...