Monday, November 9, 2009

A Fun & Fictitious Fable (Brought to you by the letter “F”)


Five furry and fuzzy feline friends Freddy, Fred, Fredrick, Frieda and Fareed, found themselves in an unfortunate and unfavorable fix. For the five felines had found four finger-licking, flavorful feasts. Unfortunate for the fact that four feasts for five felines was a foul fix.

Freddy, the father figure for the five-some, fabricated a fine and fair formula for the fantastic feasts the felines had found. “Four feasts for five felines is not unfortunate, but fortunate. We will all split the four feasts fairly,” proposed Freddy. Frieda, the only female feline of the five agreed with Freddy finding his formula fair-minded and well founded. Fred, Fredrick and Fareed differed with Freddy and Frieda, finding their suggestions fatuous and facetious. Fred, Fredrick and Fareed voiced flippant remarks, forcing Frieda’s face to frown.

“Four of us are forceful and formidable unfeminine felines, while only one is a frail and feeble faint-hearted female. Furthermore, I haven’t feasted in a fortnight, so how is fifty-fifty a fair formula?” demanded Fredrick. Fred and Fareed showed favor to Fredrick’s pontifical remarks.

Fred was a fat feline and Fareed was a filthy and foolish one. Fredrick forever fathomed Freddy’s father figure role was a far finer fit for him rather than Freddy, and furtively fancied it for himself. So, this foul federation of the three foxy felines formed no surprises for Freddy, the front-runner of the five [formerly] fellow felines.

Frieda figured she would forgo her fraction of the feast for a far less fraction, having faith that if this would rectify the fix the felines were in. The Foxy Federation of Fredrick, Fred and Fareed agreed and the fractions of the fancy feast were given out. Frieda found herself with a feeble fraction of the feast, but felt fortunate to still have her feline friends. Freddy was not fulfilled but felt that lawfulness amongst the friends had been finally found. But you can never, not for a fraction of a second de-emphasis the ferocity and fierceness of greed. Fred the fat feline flattered and fawned Frieda in a fox like manner, then suddenly filched fragile Frieda’s fraction, doing so after fortifying his own fatter fraction far from the reach of his fellow felines. Freddy became furious and force Fred the fatty to return what he has filched from his fellow feline friend. The fatty refused, and a fiery and fervent fight broke it.

Faraway from the ferocious fight, a foul, fiendish, and frightening foe was approaching cautiously. Faster and without fickleness, the foe forced his way closer to the feuding former friends and forced them to fear him. Fearing the fangs of this formidable foe, the felines all forfeited their feasts, fearful of a foul fate. Their foe took their feasts and fled faraway forever. The five furry and fuzzy felines were left without their food.

“This forlorn and foul fix has forced us to fear our foes, forfeit our food and finally, act unfavorable towards one other, friends” said Freddy. It would be another fortnight before the furry felines would find any food to feed on, and when they did, it was a fraction of the feast they found a fortnight before.

Friends fortified together are more formidable than the foulest and most ferocious of foes.

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