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// Life is Unfair 
// Story: The Cruelty of Reality 
// by Unbridled Dolly 
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The Cruelty of Reality

A few weeks after Happy was taken home by his parents, they fell into a state of aggression, the cryings of their new son depriving them of sleep and rest. The new mother and father would be awoken during the night by the sound of wailing sobs, and both would do their best to calm their son, but their efforts were for all for nothing.

In time, such was their lack of sleep, that the father began to fall behind in his work, and one day his tiredness resulted in a terrible accident, costing the life of a co-worker. The father was fired that day, and back home did he return, jobless, without a single golden bit to give to his wife.

The news immediately broke the mother, who began to quarrel with the father. How would they pay to live in their beautiful home, the house they had worked hard to keep? How would they afford food and essentials? The argument intensified, as the blame shifted between the two, until the father smacked the mother around the face.

On that day, Happy lost a father, and the father lost his family, his wife divorcing him, and leaving him to rot in the very house that once held such good memories. The ex-husband struggled to survive, scrounging the streets for coin, but what money he did find, was quickly spent away as the ex-husband would attempt to drown his sorrows in booze.

A month later, yellow tape surrounded the house where happiness once lived, a stretcher wheeled out of the front door. The limp foreleg of a stallion killed through alcoholic poisoning hung out from beneath the white sheets.