One of my favorite short story

This is one story a very short story which has made it to my favorite list.
What is so interesting about the short story ? What genre is it ? Who is the author ? Well... without too much of suspense I would get into all these right now!

The short story am talking about is "The Trouble with Leila-Jayne" written by an author called Laura Huntley, I think the author an amazing work job in the genre "Dark".
 
This story is so short and crip that at the end of it it want you leaving more. It made me wonder how some people can imagine such strange thing.

About the story all that the author wants to say is "Some people are just all wrong. Meet Leila-Jayne.:

Read it right now http://www.onparables.com/view_story.php?id=301


 

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Bankruptcy Concept

Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was thetiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as therewere only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around.

1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. Band C each owned 1 dollar.

2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar.
* The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars.

3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country,and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So, heborrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought theland from B for 2 dollars.
*A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B sold his land and got 2 dollars, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C owned the piece of land worth 2 dollars but with his 1 dollar debt to A,his net residual asset is 1 dollar.* Thus, the net asset of the country = 4 dollars.

4) A saw that the land he once owned has risen in value. He regretted havingsold it. Luckily, he has a 1 dollar loan to C. He then borrowed 2 dollarsfrom B and acquired the land back from C for 3 dollars. The payment is by 2dollars cash (which he borrowed) and cancellation of the 1 dollar loan to C.As a result, A now owned a piece of land that is worth 3 dollars. But sincehe owed B 2 dollars, his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B loaned 2 dollars to A. So his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C now has the 2 coins. His net asset is also 2 dollars.
* The net asset of the country = 5 dollars. A bubble is building up.

5) B saw that the value of land kept rising. He also wanted to own theland. So he bought the land from A for 4 dollars. The payment is byborrowing 2 dollars from C, and cancellation of his 2 dollars loan to A.
* As a result, A has got his debt cleared and he got the 2 coins. His netasset is 2 dollars.
* B owned a piece of land that is worth 4 dollars, but since he has a debtof 2 dollars with C, his net Asset is 2 dollars.
* C loaned 2 dollars to B, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* The net asset of the country = 6 dollars; even though, the country hasonly one piece of land and 2 Dollars in circulation.

6) Everybody has made money and everybody felt happy and prosperous.

7) One day an evil wind blew, and an evil thought came to C's mind. "Hey,what if the land price stop going up, how could B repay my loan. There isonly 2 dollars in circulation, and, I think after all the land that B ownsis worth at most only 1 dollar, and no more."

8) A also thought the same way.

9) Nobody wanted to buy land anymore.
* So, in the end, A owns the 2 dollar coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owed C 2 dollars and the land he owned which he thought worth 4 dollarsis now 1 dollar. So his net asset is only 1 dollar.
* C has a loan of 2 dollars to B. But it is a bad debt. Although his netasset is still 2 dollars, his Heart is palpitating.
* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars again.

10) So, who has stolen the 3 dollars from the country ? Of course, beforethe bubble burst B thought his land was worth 4 dollars. Actually, rightbefore the collapse, the net asset of the country was 6 dollars on paper.B's net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is palpitating.

11) B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. C as to relinquish his 2dollars bad debt to B, but in return he acquired the land which is worth 1dollar now.
* A owns the 2 coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B is bankrupt, his net asset is 0 dollar. ( he lost everything )
* C got no choice but end up with a land worth only 1 dollar
* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars.

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Ideas!

If you purchased $1,000 of Delta Airlines stock 1 year ago, you would have $49 today.

If you purchased $1,000 of AIG stock 1 year ago, you would have $33 today.

If you purchased $1,000 of Lehman Brothers stock 1 year ago, you would have $0.0 today.

But, if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer 1 year ago, drank all the beer, returned the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would have $214.

A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, there was a big black nothing. And it was everywhere. There was nothing else.Then, all of a sudden a blast of brilliant light showed up. This light was pure energy, pure thought,pure love and pure intelligence and it thought and when it thought it created more of what it thought of and then grew and grew and expanded within this black nothingness. This energy ball was called “Bob”. Now no one knows its name is “Bob” and even today it is called by many names: “Great Spirit”, “The Great Force”, “All that is”, “Universal Mind” and many called it “God”. But its name is “Bob”.

So Bob did what Bob knew how to do: just be everything he was – intelligence, beauty, peace, power,love and warmth. He happily did this for millions of years, until one day he decided he wanted to share who he was, with another. Well, he looked to the East and he looked to the West and he looked to the South and then to the North. And all he saw was this black nothing. So, being all powerful, all creative and all wise, he did something spectacular – he split a part of himself up into billions and billions of pieces – little sparks of one giant flame. These sparks became Bob’s beloved children. He gave them the purest love and attention any good father would give to any of his children.
His children basked in His presence for millions of years, receiving perfect love each day. Then one day, something happened. One of his children – Charlie – asked a profound question: “Dad, are you happy?” to which Bob answered “Yes” which then prompted Charlie to ask “How do you know you are happy?” to which Bob replied “I just know that I am.” So a confused Charlie asked: “Yeah, yeah,but how do I know if I am happy? What does “happy” look like and feel like? I don’t know anything else. So if I don’t know what is “not happy” then how can I know what “happy” is.” Bob was silent.

However, Charlie, being the rebel rouser that he was, started asking all his siblings this and soon there was great uproar in the household and poor Bob was left trying to explain what unhappiness looked like so that they could understand. He told them such things as happiness was joy and love and laughter and unhappiness was sorrow and anxiety and pain. But this only caused more confusion – now they not only didn’t understand the word “unhappiness” they also didn’t understand pain or sorrow or anxiety. Bob finally realized he couldn’t explain concepts like happiness and peace and joy and love, nor could he explain misery or hatred or anxiety or fear. How do you explain misery to someone who only knew joy?

The only way his kids were going to fully grasp these concepts would be if they actually experienced the differences between the states of happiness and the states of unhappiness. So he sat them all down and said to them: “I am going to send you out into the world. A part of each of you will remain with me and I will remain within each part of you so that we eternally stay connected and so that you can all find your way back home. But other than this, you will have great autonomy and power over your lives. You will be able to experience everything you wish to experience because you are my offspring and if I have the ability to create something out of nothing, so do you.However, because you have not mastered the thought process and are not fully conscious of who you are and the power of your thought, in your eagerness you could bring great harm to one another if you wished something and you did not fully understand its implications. To protect you all, I will create a system where the manifestation of your thoughts are slowed down and can only speed up once you have mastered the ability to think consciously and see the bigger picture which is that we are all one and that your thoughts affect not just you but everyone else too.

So Bob created a system of life support, all within him. He set up galaxies and solar systems and planets. He created Earth. He infused Earth with His loving energy and from this fusion - this marriage - a birthing process took place where billions of sparks could experience existence on Earth.Mother Earth gave each child a part of her, clothing them in material from the Earth and Bob gave them His consciousness, His mind, and His powers.

Each child had a mother – Earth – and a father - Bob. Bob gave them the powers of the mind to create and to remember him and find their way back home, and Mother Earth nestled them in a playground rich with beauty, variety and adventure. Bob promised Mother Earth that when each spark was finished with their Earthly experience, the part of them that belonged to her would be returned to her.From dust we came and from dust we shall return. But the part that belonged to their Father would return to once again join the one great energy source.

So began the human experiences on Earth. Earth was of genuine interest to Bob since many of his children were there. Sure beat watching soap operas anyway! Bob watched his children be born, live,die and return to go through his whole experience many, many times. He watched them forget about who He was and more importantly, he stood by, as they forgot who they were. He watched them disrespect their Earth Mother and pollute her playground and abuse her other creatures. He watched his children murder, humiliate shock, frustrate and anger each other.He watched as their acts became more and more horrendous with mass genocide and incest and poverty rampant everywhere. He felt deep compassion each time even one of his children experienced pain, sorrow, jealousy or rage. He rejoiced when they felt joy, laughter, kindness or peace. But like any good father, and Bob was the best, he did not interfere. He allowed them to live their lives and make their own mistakes but continually sent out loving vibrations to each one all the while,whispering in their hearts and in their minds: “Remember who you are. Remember where you came from. Come home.”

To Bob, no child was more perfect or better than another. They were all perfect in Bob’s eyes. That didn’t mean they weren’t mischievous or naughty or truly troublesome at times. That also didn’t mean that they weren’t capable of committing horrendous acts. But that didn’t mean he ever stopped loving them or would ever turn his back on any one of them. Even today, Bob still shakes his head in dismay at some of the ideas his kids have come up with, like “we are not all perfect, some of us are actually bad or evil and we have to keep coming back or repeating our lives until we get it right and that the ones living in poverty or pain, actually somehow deserve it!” How could any parent think a child is evil? Doing evil and being evil are two entirely different things. How could any parent wish pain or suffering on any child, no matter what they have done and actually wish that the child would come back and experience the same pain he inflicted on others?

They kept coming back and living through the horrors they inflicted on others, not because Bob had decreed it, but because deep inside each one of his kids, they knew they had done something wrong and this guilt slowly gnawed at their minds until they eventually attracted that which they feared. Oh,and then Bob really wants to get his hands on that brat of his, whom he adores, who started a rumour that there is only one religion, one way home.

And poor Bob still can’t quite figure out who started the one about we are all here to become rich,powerful or important. Where do they get this stuff from anyway? Certainly not from Him! Theymust get this from their Mother.

And so the years roll by and one day, Bob hears something he hasn’t heard before. Charlie is calling him. Not like Charlie has done in the past – begging or pleading for mercy and for “God to save him”which always bothered Bob because he wants to save them all and bring them all back home but if every time he saved his child from falling off the bike, how would she ever learn to ride a bike or have the confidence to drive a car? This time, Charlie doesn’t ask to be rescued – Charlie doesn’t act like a helpless victim. This time, he asks for insight and power, to change his own life around – he starts to act like the co-creator he is, the true off spring of a mighty, powerful parent.

This act of courage puts Charlie in a vibratory frequency that is much higher than that of victim and enables him to better hear Bob’s voice. Bob has always been speaking to him, it’s just that now, Charlie is better at listening. Bob’s voice comes through in the emotions that Charlie feels, in the relationships he has with others, in the odd coincidences he has, in the moments of utter quiet and stillness when Charlie goes “within”. Sometimes Bob’s voice can be heard through such obvious channels like television, books, dreams and songs. And the voice says what it has been saying from the beginning of time: “You are beautiful. You are loved. You are powerful beyond imagination. You are worthy and are my child and for that I am well pleased. Come home.”

And so Charlie snaps awake in consciousness and really begins to believe and feel that he truly is the offspring of a mighty power and that he does have the same power as His father to manifest love, joy and peace. As his consciousness evolves, his ability to manifest all that he thinks of all day long,strengthens. Then a miraculous thing begins to happen. His joy and happiness become infectious and he draws people and things to him like magnets – things of similar vibration. He exudes happiness and his boss who is thrilled with his new positive attitude and the respect that others have for him, and Charlie’s enormous energy and capacity to get the job done, decides to promote him. This gives Charlie more money, more prestige, a bigger home and a more exciting lifestyle. But Charlie’s consciousness has now truly evolved. He knows material things don’t make him happy, nor does having a marriage or a child or a pet. None of these give happiness.

Only Charlie’s mind can do that. Everything else is just a reflection of a mind at work. Once Charlie has made happiness and control of his mind a priority, secondary benefits such as success, money,love, big home come automatically, if that is what is wanted. What is more amazing is that everyone around Charlie now wants what he has and so they start following in Charlie’s footsteps and begin changing their thinking, raising their consciousness.

This ultimately gives them mastery over their emotions, their health, their relationships and everything else they project onto the screen of life. Of course, there are still those nay sayers, who know Charlie is crazy just like they know that the Earth is flat. Poor Mother Earth – what woman wants to be told she is flat? But that is okay, because little by little, it becomes apparent that the proof is in the evidence. The ones who watch their thoughts carefully and who pay close attention to the signs given to them every day that mirror what they are thinking are the ones who quickly begin taking charge of their lives and living a more happy and productive existence. Is everything perfect all the time? Of course not! They may come from their Father but they still have their Mother in them too which makes them very human and very fallible.

But their lives become far better. And as each child’s life changes, he touches at least one other life,which in turn will touch another. The consciousness and energy that surrounds each of them and also around the entire planet begins to change in density as more light, love and wisdom is released. And as Bob promised, as each child’s consciousness evolves and they fully understand the power of their thought and their responsibility to each other as brothers and sisters, their ability to manifest speeds up.

Then the day arrives when Bob knows that His children have become fully matured and fully conscious of who they are and from where they come. They know how to feel happy and confidently go about their business in rearranging the universe to suit their needs. They always think of each other because they know they are all one mind and what they wish for another, they wish upon themselves.

It will be on this day that Bob will ask each one an important question: “Are you ready to come home?”to which they will all answer with one mind and in one voice: “We already are home.” And in the final words of all great fairy tales – they all lived happily ever after…