The Clutz
By: Kylee Sawyer
Once upon a time there was a girl that was 16 named Ella.
She is very auspiciousto most, but to some she was to clumsy.
Ella has always tried to rectifyher clumsiness, but no matter hard
she tried it was arduousfor her. The thought of tripping and
falling in front of a bunch of people was always dauntingher
because she didn’t want to be reviledby her classmates. One
time, she was scared to go near a precipicebecause she felt like
she was going to trip and fall. She often abscondedin class so
she wouldn’t have walk up in front of the class. When she was
home she felt reprieved. Her brother Brad that was 18, would
often hoodwinkher into tripping over something because he
thought it was funny. For example, Brad had put a bunch of my
inanimatestuffed animals in front of a doorway and asked her to
run down and help him with something. When she tripped on
them, she wanted to incinerate the stuff animals but they she
realized they were hers. Ella told Brad in a joking manner that he
was responsible for the larcenyof her stuffed animals. Then,
when she was on her way back to her room she tripped and then
had to disentangleher feet from pillows to get up and continue
walking to her room. Soon after she got in her room, her mom
came to the door and asked if she could accessthe room. Ella
said yes and her mom then walked in the room. Ella’s mom asked
“what’s wrong?” She then said “I just wish I wasn’t as clumsy.”
Her mom then made a pompousspeech about how Ella should
love her clumsiness and that it’s her fateso she should embrace
it. Ella felt that the speech was biasedbecause it’s her mother,
she was pliant. Ella thought about her mother’s speech and
started feeling better about her clumsiness. She began to feel
intrepidabout her clumsiness. By the way, this society was an
anarchy.