Magic Eyelashes 

(A Children's Story)

On the refrigerator hung a huge calendar two feet up from the floor.  When it had big red X’s crossing out the first five months of the year, Rachel knew it was time to fly to a magical place.  June was Rachel’s favorite month of the year.  Not because the school year had ended.  Every June since she was five years old, Rachel flew to Tucson, AZ from Manchester, NH on Southwest Airlines.  She sat in a front row seat near the flight attendants.  All by herself!

This year would be her fourth visit to Bubbie and Zaddie.  It was already April and everyday she marked the red X’s on the calendar.  When she went to bed at night, she tried NOT to think about the drive through the desert from the airport to the ranch with all the different types of cacti – saguaros, chollas, yuccas, and Texas rangers.

A True Tale of a Butterfly 

By M. Butterflies Katz

Living in New Zealand, in a place of splendor, I was saddened to come home to find Monarch butterflies suffering from being stung by wasps.  I picked up one such butterfly and brought him inside. He hung, motionless.  His wings were shriveled and damaged. It was 14 hours of this motionless behavior, so I thought he had died. When he was stung, he was still in the defenseless 'drip-drying’ stage, where their wings straighten out from their 10-14 day stay in the chrysalis. He had just emerged from the chrysalis, but didn’t yet know what it was like to be a butterfly and fly the sky. Then, high and behold, he gracefully fluttered his wings, twice. I could easily identify him as a male because of his black spots on the vein of each hind wing.

A Vision of a Vegan World 

By M. Butterflies Katz

http://www.veganpoet.com

It’s the future. We turn on the T.V. to a half-hour, commercial-free news program. A reporter speaks:  Today is the 10th anniversary of the last case of the deadly 'sad cow' disease that turned the whole world vegan at once, and everyone is amazingly feeling better! We take you now to view a sampling of the general public walking the streets. They move with agility. Now we take you to a clip from ten years ago. Dare I say that we appear to be a more evolved species, even than 10 years ago? It was TRUE what the pioneer vegans told us of veganism being the next step in the evolution of humankind!

Once overloaded hospital rooms are emptying at an accelerated rate. It appears that Americans are all getting healthier, leaner, less toxic and disease-ridden. New medical findings indicate children born in these vegan times don't have the typical runny noses so common in children of the last decades. The children are clear-eyed, bright and intelligent. Size 3X has been done away with at the International Clothing Convention, as gross obesity is a disease of the “not so good old days”. New medical studies show that heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases are at an all time low.