A Boy With Broken Fate
Introduction - Seductive Struggle
Writen by: Jessica Ritz & Jasmine Robinson ¢2007-2008
The boy with no-name brushed the dust from his jeans, and sat himself down on the edge of the gravel road.
A white veil covered the air, the chalky powder have been up brought into the distance by the wheels of a
wooden wagon. Among the tall prairie grasses, blue cloudless sky, and open land for miles was the boy.
No horse in sight to carry him away, No cattle for him to care for, No, just him. He was just a boy given a bad
hand, dirty dice, and no luck for change. Sun rays danced in his messy copper hair, mud covered his rough battered
hands, dirt clung under his short fingernails, but, he was happy. A crooked smile eased to his lips, like it belonged there,
he couldn't tell if this was a dream of reality, he never could comprehend sadness, stress, lust, greed, envy, gluttony,
pride, sloth…, and True happiness. For, that was the way he was, the way he would always be. Most people pitied him,
others shunned him. Those who shunned him were those who feared him, or where ashamed by him, for, he was different.
He could not speak, he had no control over sounds he created, or how he moved his body, for he was what ignorant people
call…, Retarded. Kinder people used a gentler word…, 'Mentally Challenged'. Though even those who did not alienate him
would never understand what it was like to be innocent. He may be unintelligible, but he would keep something everyone in turn
would loose. Everyone looses their dreams, their hopes, and their childish happiness. Everyone grows up. But, the boy's mind is
frozen so he will never grow up, and he will always be free.