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Writing Challenge: Story By Numbers

  Here's my story for this month's Writing Challenge. Thank you to Marisa for introducing us to The Giant Storymaker and Tara for presenting such a nice activity proposal . This story uses words and phrases found with #93.

 My Story: The Mistake's Suitcase

Character: a Polish immigrant; 

Place: greenhouse

Situation: a bomb threat

Objects: the wrong suitcase

  Once upon a time , there was a Polish immigrant called Matias who was passionate about gardening. He lived in the South of France, growing lots of  colourful tulips  in a huge and wondrous greenhouse.

  His flowers were so enchanting, that everyone in that region seemed to want all the flowers for themselves.

  He was so sucessful in what he did for a living, that had awaken jealousy in some persons which he's used to live together everyday.

  One day, the richest friend of Matias , decided to put an end to the brightness of his greenhouse, by coming up with a bomb threat to be put into the flower's field in a few days.

  That rich man was really unhappy with his life, even though all his wealth, and simply didn't accept Mattias to be so lucky in his business, because he always wanted to have all the sucess and compliments Mattias always had.

  Arrived the day to the bomb's day, the rich man decide to put it inside a suitcase. When coming at the greenhouse to leave the bomb suitcase, Mattias call him to have a coffee and hand over him some tulips as a symbol for the long-lasting friendship.

  The wealthy man got surprised with such an attitude of Mattias, what made him thoughtful, rethinking about his plan against Matias.

  At the end of the visit, he quit the suitcase's plan, because he noticed that the friendship strenght must overcome the jealousy strenght, but a thing still disturbed him: he had forgotten the suitcase at Matias' greenhouse. What now?

  Then, the man immediately come back to there and find out that the suitcase he has left there, it was just his work suitcase, since he'd also an alike suitcase that one planned to blow up,  for sure, it was the wrong suitcase that saved gardener's life.

  The rich man takes the opportunity to tell everything about your plan to Matias, and apologises him on and on. Mattias readily catch the suitcase and forgive him showing  that what's the most important this life wasn't the sucess or fame he had, but all the valuable friends he was gathering along life and their support towards him in the hardest moments which he got through.