Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

AMY TAN
have known to give it to the lady reporter? The story on the tape was
even better than he had remembered. Sister Roxanne had spoken
with great heart about their suffering and used just the right words
about the cruelty of the SLORC soldiers. She showed the tribe’s
wounds, the maimed, the faces of good people. She spoke of their
kindness. Their story was not on TV Myanmar but on Global News
Network. His heart pounded. The whole world knew their story.
Their story of survival was greater than any of those on Darwin’s
Fittest. A leaky boat was a small problem. The hippopotamus did
not really exist, nor did the crocodiles. For those TV people, it was
all pretend. But his people had a true story, and so it was better. The
world now knew who they were, and their hearts would find them in
No Name Place. Their show would be number one, week after week,
too popular to cancel. They would be TV stars, and never again
would they have to worry that they would be hunted and killed.
He already knew what to call the show: The Lord’s Fittest. He
went to spread the good news.
M Y FRIENDS ’ ELATION dissipated in the next hour.
This began when their backs were turned to the TV, when they felt
they no longer needed to watch out or worry. They did not realize
that in the jungle a TV is a not just a TV. It is a Nat. You must watch
it continually, or it will get angry and change the story.
The TV Nat had been talking and talking, and no one had been
listening. His attendants were jabbering among themselves and
changing the past. That troublesome tape of Roxanne’s? Now it was
funny! Remember when we were in the back of the truck, they said,
going to the Christmas surprise, and Roxanne was telling us to wave?
And Wendy was saying, This better be good! Ha. Ha, ha. Who could
have known?
Black Spot went to my friends and apologized for all the trouble
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