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Find the updated version of this story here . We All Need a Break Julia walked out onto the terrace at Monica and Rachel ’ s apartment. After the night when they set up the area so that she could meet her deadline, she had been spending a lot of her time outside, on the terrace, writing. Julia still loved writing in the cozy coffee shop, so she has been splitting her time between the two places. Today Julia came up to the terrace to blow off some steam. She feels angrier that she has felt since she moved to New York City. The new editor at her office has been taking credit for the work that the authors are actually doing. Julia and the other authors are now looking like they are lazy and not meeting their deadlines. Today Julia had finally had enough. The editor, David, had sold Julia out in front of her boss for something that she had not even done. She was livid and could not spend another moment in that office, so she came up to one of her favorite places to get some sun ...

Avenging His Friends Reading Notes: The Crab and The Crane -There was a summer when there was no rain and little water -The animals all suffered -The fish in a pond had very little water and the crane sat and watched them -The crane told the fishes about a pond in the forest that he knew had a lot of water in it -The fishes did not trust him, so they sent one fish with him to check out the pond -They went back and the fish told all the other fish about the pond and they all agreed to go one by one. -The crane began taking them one by one, but he broke their trust and ate each fish one by one -He went back to see if there were any fish, but there was only a crab left -The crane wanted to take the crab as he did the fish, so the crab went, bu the crab was afraid of falling, so he used is claws to hold onto the crane's neck -The crane asked the crab to get off in the place where he had eaten the fish, but the crab snapped his neck before he could eat him.

Reading Notes: The Ox Who Won the Forfeit -A man owned a very strong ox -He made a pricey bet on the ox -He verbally abused the ox and tried to make him pull the carts for the bet -The ox did not respond to this sort of talk and would not budge -The man paid the debt and went home very sad -That night the man and his ox talked about the way that he spoke to him and the man agreed that he would never treat him that way again -The two of them went into town the next day and doubled the owner's money The Man and His Ox