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The Secret Life of an Arctic Polar Bear

“Hi I’m Trixie and I am going to tell you about a regular day in my life.” First, I get up and try to hunt my prey, a tundra falcon named Darius. I always try and catch Darius while he’s sleeping, but he always out smarts me and flies away. We do this back and forth like a Tom and Jerry kind of thing. Trust me it gets very annoying. But, what’s more annoying is when Gurt the algae and Jamal the snail get in my way. They purposely try to get in my way. You see, Jamal lives in Gurt, which I can see because Gurt looks fluffy but that doesn’t matter because Gurt is green and green is icky. It turns my beautiful white coat green… who would ever want a green coat.

I was walking back from ice fishing with my girlfriends and I spotted him or should I say it. Well it was Darius looking innocent staring off into space but to be honest I think it is kind of creepy. It is not like he is looking at an object or a person, but he is looking through them. It is like he is piercing the deep dark depths of their soul. I went over to go sweet me talk him and take his attention off me trying to eat him.

“Hey how’s it going Darius.”

“Shut up fool I know what your are trying to do… sweet talk me and its not going to work, child!”

“Well ok you got me there.” I was feeling a little sad but as I was swimming to my home I saw Muley the sea squirt on the ocean floor. I asked what was wrong with him and he said

“I think I am being eaten alive”

“What!!!!” I said like I cared when I really didn’t.

“There is a parasite inside me and I decided to name it Casper”

“Like the ghost” I said flatly.

“What happens when a parasite is inside of you, he starts out just eating blood and sucking out the nutrients. Then I get sick and weak and eventually die.”

“Well that’s just to bad…”

After a long day of being me I was going home and spotted an ugly lichen. Then I went over to eat it because I was hungry. As I was chewing I decided that this was the worst lichen I have ever tasted and spit it out.

“Hey that hurt, you know, you don’t have to eat me because I eat myself, so take that. The algae in me makes my food and the fungi in me makes me eat it.”

Then I saw it my opportunity to strike. It was Darius drinking some water. I wanted to rip his head off. I crept up right behind him really slow ghost like. I whispered to him

“Now you get yours.” He turned around made a squeak and I ate him…whole, it was a little hard to get down so I drank some water I think I drown him because he wasn’t squirming anymore. I had finally did it I ate that whacko bird and that is my secret life of an arctic polar bear.

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