From: kai@depeche.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: my RFA application
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 18:10:25 +0200
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Organization: World Violation, Inc.

I was told to write *something* about "fire" and "romance"
to become a member of the famous "Romantic Fire Association".
But since my English is not the best I hope you can forgive
my that the following story may not be the best. And if I
write in German nobody will understand it ;) I hope you'll
like. Here we go:


               THE LITTLE PEOPLE FROM ARCLAND
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Once upon a time many little people were living on earth. Most
of them had their houses in ARCland and they called themselves
ARCs. They were very gentle and hugged everyone they met.

What they loved most was sitting in their houses with their
friends and talking about all the wonderful things that happened
in ARCland. And each ARC had his own candle that he got when
he was born. They lighted candles and so there was a very
romantic mood around. They used to talk for hours and hours and
it got never boring. Because the houses were build of wood they
were very carefull with their candles. And since they used to
have candles every evening never anything happened.

But outside ARCland there lived a green dwarf. Very often he
looked at ARCland when the ARCs were in their houses. He loved
that sight and he really wanted to join them because he hated
it being alone. But he was also very shy and so he never came
to ARCland. And everytime he met an ARC in the woods he just
ran away in his dark cave.

But one evening when the dwarf was in the woods he met a ARC
who asked him with a smile: "Isn't it a wonderful day?" The
dwarf didn't say a word because he didn't know what to answer.
Then the little ARC went home but he lost his candle. The
dwarf picked it up and brought it into his cave. 

This evening the ARCs met as usual in a house to chat. They
lighted their candles and nobody realized that there was one
candle less than ARCs were around. Our little ARC who lost his
candle was very dissappointed this evening. Late at night when
the discussion ends everyone took his candle. And even the
little ARC picked one. But the last ARC who wanted to get his
candle saw that there were no more candles. All the ARCs were
shocked and looked at each other. They couldn't imagine that
somebody could steal the candle of another ARC. 

The next day the rumor went areound that a candle was stolen.
That causes that from this day on less ARCs met in the evenings
because they couldn't trust each other any more. So the ARCs
spent the evenings alone without the romantic light of their
candles which were hidden. It also got cold in the following
weeks and some ARCs got sick because of the cold nights.

The dwarf lighted the candle every evening and was sitting
in his cove. But he had nobody he could talk to and he also
feels guilty because he didn't give back the candle. But then
something terribly happened. The dwarf felt asleep and his cave
started burning. He ran to ARCland to call the ARCs. They came
to put out the fire. But when the fire was dead they saw what
was the reason for the disaster. One of their candles was
there. They were very sad that they thought that another ARC
had stolen it. But as they wanted to ask the dwarf they couldn't
find him, he was gone.

So they went back to ARCland were they found a piece of paper
with the message "I'm sorry that I haven't told you that I found
the candle. I will go away." They all know that the dwarf has
written this and there thought that it's not right that the
dwarf should be blamed for it. Then one ARC shouted: "There
he is, I can see him in the woods!" The ARCs ran to tell him
that he should stay because the never told him how dangerous
fire can be and so it's not only his mistake.

So they all, the ARCs and the dwarf, went to ARCland. The dwarf
got his own candle and was told how to use it. This evening was
very great, they were sitting in one house and lighted their
candles. The dwarf told very interesting stories and the ARCs
listened very pationately. So the ARCs and the dwarf were
living in peace till the end of time.

Kai.
    
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Kai Voigt, Werftstrasse 2, 2300 Kiel 14, Germany, +49 431 7297514
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