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 * Tropical Rain Forest Fiction **

It was a blistering day in the Tropical Rain Forest of South America. Freddy the flatworm was resting on a leaf while Ned the newt was eating his daily meal. During this, he ate the leaf that Freddy was on.

“Mmmm… that was one good leaf,” he said to himself, but Ned did not know he swallowed Freddy whole. The newt became very hungry, since he ate Freddy, and every bite of leaf he took seemed to disappear in his belly.

Ned complained, “Oh my! For every leaf I eat, the hungrier I get.” Ned decided that he needed some professional help. He decided to visit Chuck the Chimpanzee, the best doctor in all of the rain forest. Chuck’s office was in the trunk of a big Kapok tree. As Ned approached the tree, he saw Tammy Toucan perched in her nest in the tree to see that the tree didn’t care, but Tammy was benefiting. Then Ned went into Chuck’s office. Dr. Chuck was a huge and fuzzy chimpanzee. He had all of the equipment that you could possibly see in a doctor’s office.

“So, young newt, what has brought you here to my office?”

“Well doctor, I am not feeling well,” the newt answered as he jumped on the patient bed. Chuck took out one of his handy dandy instruments to x-ray Ned.

Within moments of the operation, Chuck approached Ned to tell him some devastating news. “I’m afraid that you have consumed a flatworm and are going to die. . . If I don’t help you that is. Don’t worry, the surgery will be simple, all I have to do is give you some laughing gas to put you to sleep.”

Ned nodded his head in reply and Chuck gave Ned the laughing gas. Ned passed out within seconds and Chuck proceeded with the operation. It took Chuck a long time to locate the flatworm in Ned’s body, but once he did, the thing was sucked out of Ned’s body within an instant. Moments after Freddy was out of Ned, Ned had awoken and saw the tiny parasite that was captivated in jar. So, since Ned was cured, he thanked Chuck and left the Doctor’s office. But right after Ned stepped outside the office, a tiger named Ted pounced upon him. It had been the most outrageous thing, but that’s just how nature works.

With Ted’s afternoon meal out of the way, he went near a patch of flowers to rest. As he sat down, he looked up to notice a silver vase bromeliad being pollinated by a cicada.

As he saw that both were benefiting, he said to himself, “I wish someone would give me a never ending back and head rub so that I would get a massage and their hands would get to feel my warm, fuzzy back.” But not all dreams come true.



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