Stories of Enchantment

By David Payton

Stories of Enchantment by David Payton
with contributions from Lynn Tolliver jr

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466944435

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CONTENTS

THE LUCKY FISH

THE HAPPY PLAYGROUND

THE WISH

by David Payton

SEPTEMBER 33RD

SUMMARY OF THE STORY

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THE LUCKY FISH

DEEP IN THE OCEAN, there was a fish family. Everyone was happy being a fish, except for little Frankie. Frankie was a rambunctious fish. He was a very young fish, but was extremely curious. Sometimes curious can be a good thing, but very often curiosity without supervision can lead into trouble, and Frankie was always getting into trouble.

Frankie, be very careful when you swim around out in the ocean. The ocean is very big and fish get lost all the time.

Yes, mom. I’ll be careful. Mom, you know I pay attention all the time and I know how to get back home, don’t worry—

I’m going to worry Frankie. You know your brother Ferdinand never came back, because he went over to Caspergone.

Mom, Ferdinand was not my brother. Ferdinand was a big slow turtle who was old. You always say that, and his name was Tucker.

You know I just worry

Mom, a lot of fish and other sea creatures come up missing, they vanish. We learned that in school. So many of them left the ocean unhappy. I don’t want to be a fish like that. I want to be a happy fish, I want to be a lucky fish.

Caspergone was the name the sea creatures gave this place where, if any thing in the ocean went in that section of the ocean the majority of them never came back. In the real human world, Caspergone was FISHERMAN’s RETREAT. This was where people came to fish for sport, fish for food, and catch and collect species of the water life for pets and zoos around the world, so people could see what it was like to be an underwater wildlife habitant.

The water world named the area for the cartoon they use to watch called Casper The Friendly Ghost. Everybody knew and loved that show, and they would all get happy when they would see Casper disappear and re-appear. He would go, and everybody thought he was gone, so they named the section of the water, Caspergone, because too many water life elements vanished when they went into that part of the ocean.

This is where everyone thought TUCKER the TURTLE ended up. Tucker had lived a long, long time and the reason why everybody loved Tucker was because Tucker had a lot of stories. Tucker had stories about alligators and crocodiles, stories of whales and dolphins. Tucker had seen sea urchins and snakes, and even though many of the water dwellers consumed each other, which was the way it was under the sea. What they couldn’t understand is why when so many found their way to Caspergone; they just vanished like a ghost.

Everybody knows that whales eat smaller fish. In life when you have an explanation, you may not like it, but at least you have an answer. And if you went to school and paid full attention to what they taught you, you could outlast the perils of life, and live to be a healthy fish animal. If you stayed in your school of fish, or in your natural environment, you could expect to live a fish’s life, and that’s all any fish really wanted, except Frankie.

Frankie was that experimental conception. If he were a salmon, he would swim with the current, downstream, not upstream like they do. Frankie was an outcast, but you know not to the immediate family. Momma loved Frankie, her only boy fish son, and all of the daughter fish watched over little Frankie. He was the last little fishling Momma could have.