Daily story, June 15, 2025

The kid said we should use leaves and stones as money. The stones were coins and the leaves were banknotes. I can teach her something here, I thought. I gathered up more of them than she could ever carry. I was the richest man on Earth. Her little purse was worth nothing to me. No, she said, those ones don’t count. Just like that, I was ruined. I had forgotten where the power lay.