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   Their once was a fish named Joey, he was a beautiful fish 

composed of many vibrant colors, such as red, green, blue 

and yellow. 

Joey lived in a plain blue river, with a gentle current and shiny 

rocks along the bottom. This forest was located in a luscious 

green forest, as green as a slimy tree frog. This forest had 

wonderful plant life, and a large diversity of animals everywhere. 

Joey had a natural fascination with birds, he would watch them all 

day long flying carelessly through the air. Joey thought that this 

would be the best feeling in the world, he longed to be a bird so 

that he could fly through the air, but he was just a lowly fish 

destined to spend his life in the water.

Until one day Joey decided that maybe he could fly, if he 

swam upwards with enough force he could break the 

surface and fly through the air. Joey began to do this 

everyday, flying through the air getting higher and higher 

everyday, but he was still not happy he could not fly 

carelessly in the air like the birds, and the acts of jumping 

out of the water exhausted him. Joey decided that he 

needed more of a flying experience and decided to fly over 

the nearby water fall and land into the pool below. Joey started 

far back in the river and and gained as much speed as possible 

and when he reached the begining of the waterfall he shot out of 

the waterfall like a cannon, flying through the air carelessly and 

happy, just like a bird.

When the fish landed he realized he was further down the river 

than he has ever been before. In this part of the river he saw an 

animal he has never seen before, a snake slithering on land he was 

not trapped in the water nor in the air he was free to go where he 

wanted. At this moment the fish no longer wanted to be a bird, but 

instead a snake.

The fish kept going back to this part of the river everyday just to 

watch these snakes slither. Wanting to be a snake more and more 

everyday. Until one day Joey thought to himself I watch these 

snakes every day maybe I can slither like these beautiful snakes. So 

he came up with a plan to go to the softest yellow beach with the 

most beautiful sand you will ever see, and slither on land like a snake

A week passed and Joey decided it was time to put his plan into 

action, so he gathered up speed and shot up out of the water like a 

bird, but only this time he landed outside of the water on the bright 

sand, and he started to slither like the snakes he so often watched. 

He slithered up off of the shore and onto the grass, but then he 

realized he could not breath out of the water. 

He tried to slither back towards the water, but he could not slither 

in the grass. He started to struggle, but he realized he had no 

chance, he was gonna die on the beach, and all because he wanted to 

be a snake rather than a fish. However he got lucky a old scraggly 

man with a white beard and torn clothes happened to be walking the 

beach and saw the struggling fish and put him back into the water.

Joey swam back to his home and started to rejoice, he realized 

that he is not a bird, and he is not a snake and decided he can be 

happy just being a fish like he is.

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