Raven's Challenge 58

It is Saturday already and we have to be out reading all those wonderful stories.
Today we give out our ninth dragon award. Click HERE to see our gallery of winners.
You know we dragons write great stories too.
No! We are not humble.
Here is our mega challenge for today.

Good Bad Luck

Portico H. Alabaster was really down on his luck. He wanted to call his sister in Detroit but he had no iPod or even a cheap cell phone. He had no job and there was very little demand for old acrobats even at grocery store openings. Indeed there were now far more store closings than openings and he was told it was all the fault of some mysterious people who worked in cubes with computers. Somehow they failed to be good interpreters of the housing market which collapsed and brought everything else down with it. If he had enough energy he would have hated them but it just didn’t seem worth the effort. So he laid on the ground most of the day watching the bumble bees fly by making dandelion stops along the way. Even the waving of the chartreuse grass interested him. Not that he could really see that well. He needed desperately to see an optometrist but strenuously resisted because acrobats couldn’t wear glasses. He thought of cutting some of the wild flowers but had no scissors.. He was very lucky there was no poison ivy in the area because with his eyes he would never have recognized it.
Feeling thirsty he went to spend his last four dollars on a case of pop at the grocery store just as the ceiling fan fell and it cut into the back of his leg.He would never be an acrobat again.
Finally his luck had changed. The very generous insurance settlement would take care of him for the rest of his life. Life could be good.

After today our gallery wall will be full. We will start a new wall in the fall. But now we are taking a break from the stress of deciding whose great story is the best.