The small black tortoise
The small black tortoise Once upon a time, there was a small black tortoise, named Torty. He had come from a very far land, together with his parents. They had travelled for months and months, crossed many fields and many pastures, many woods and many roads. Torty liked to travel. His dad often told him stories as they walked along, and in the evening, before they rested for the night, his mom cooked for them the most delicious dishes. Until one fateful day their lives changed forever. On that fateful day, while they were crossing a road, as they had done hundreds of times before, a big noisy car suddenly came along at great speed, and both of our little tortoise’s parents were killed, atrociously crushed under the wheels. The death of his parents broke Torty’s heart: the pain was so great that it made the little black tortoise terribly miserable—so much so that he kept crawling on the road, silently hoping that another car would crush him, just like his parents were crush...