TOEFL Practice 1–2–3 Short Story

TurkTexMex
2 min readApr 2, 2023

My Dear Friend,

At the end of the year, we were doomed. They were attacking us constantly. At that time, they killed my daughter and my wife. The leader of the ch’itaA could not protect us. We had to think something, until you. After we saw you, we could not believe it. How could it be the same time you can be a machine, a human, and a ghost. You explained to us, your human part died and became a ghost. Your machine part can never die. Furthermore, it is still destroyable. Nevertheless, we are just littles quarters elves people; you should have understood why we couldn’t believe it. We thought you could stop the Planes’ Oil War. I negated them; some of them did not believe that. They were saying, what war, we are not in war. I think they are crazy.

They substituted planes with animals. They killed animals for planes’ fuels. You almost stopped them. They have been emphasizing for thirty years these oils. As you know, they found out how they can use blood for plans’ fuels. I assume you, these barbaric are going to kill humans after they killed every single animal. ch’tiaA is going to fall down! You, my friend, you have already died before. Also, you are a machine too. Moreover, you are a ghost, and you were a spider. You taught to citizens of ch’tiaA, we can protect ourselves. We are no inadequate! No one can enforce me! I do not have to constrain!

I know, I know now we are approaching the end. I have never been a good writer. I have never been good at it. On the other hand, I wanted to write you. Indeed, I wanted that.

I functioned in my job. I killed Caca the Stinky. I will never regret it. He was stealing everybody’s money, gas, food, water.

Yesterday, they were talking about somebody who has schizophrenia, but they did not tell me. Poor guy, ha? They said that it was a miracle I did not die after I fell down from a balcony.

You, my the machine-fishman friend. I told you, you were our only hope. I know my friend, I have a unique feature. People can not see the contrast in details like me. Nevertheless, you know I can not forget anything. People always expect one savior, but you taught me. We can not wait for a prophet. I was craving for reading, my friend. I could not remember the old days. That is weird, you know, because normally, my brain was awesome. They can not label people, you know. I know people are stupid, but still, they can not do that. I should have been married; I wish I had a daughter before I die. In the Ships’ Natural Gas War, we didn’t have a good proportion. We lost the war at sea.

Anyways my friend, my daughter says I have to take my medication. I gotta go.

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