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There once was a storeowner named Sonny Cashness. He was a merry man who set up shop in the east side of Compton. His store, “Sonny’s One-Stop General Shop”, was quite successful; so successful, that it raised quite a few eyebrows. The General Shop sold just about anything one could think of and more. See, Sonny’s shop was the keystone of a strip mall called “El Bodega”, and Patrons of El Bodega were used to seeing stores close every few months due to poor sales, crime, or any other problem you could imagine. Somehow, Sonny’s shop managed to stay open for years, but when it was on the brink of its decade anniversary, things started to go wrong. “Crash!” a brick went flying through the front window of the General shop and all the customers ducked for cover. “It’s alright people. Just a brick, I’ll have maintenance right out here in a second,” said Sonny, trying to appease the potential buyers of his wares. It was Monday morning and things were off to a bad start. It gave the patrons an ominous vibe that Sonny was not surprised in the least that someone had vandalized his store. Many wondered why this had happened, but the answer would surely have shocked and appalled them all. The brick was thrown by one of the neighboring shopkeepers, presumably out of jealousy and anger. A few days earlier, his colleagues had discovered why Sonny’s One Stop General Shop managed to prevail no matter how hard the times. Sonny had developed an ingenious plan. On the front of his store, he had installed a low frequency magnet designed to react with the tiny electric charges in the brains of human beings. He kept this magnet on at all times and patrons within a twenty-foot radius were subconsciously drawn into his store. The charges were reversed only after a purchase had been made. Jack Kerokesey, the owner of “Springer’s Pretzels” had heard him talking about this trick to an investor and spread the word to all the shops in El Bodega.
Approximate Word count = 1311
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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