This is Ria. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.

If you are new to the podcast, welcome by the way. You might want to go back and listen

to a story from a while ago called Frog and Salamander before listening to this story.

It'll give you the backstory on our characters. I do not have a guest today and I turned

off my email notifications. We have a story to get to and it's a bit lengthy so we're

going to jump right in. It's called Frog and Salamander Return. Take it away, Camden.

Remember, there are no pictures. You have to imagine the pictures in your mind. You can

imagine them however you want. Okay, here we go.

Frog stopped typing, leaned back and allowed a satisfied grin to ripen on his face.

He was perched on a rock, jutting out from the bank of warmly pond. It was the edge of

winter and the temperature was dropping each day. Frog felt perfectly warm. He had just

finished his masterpiece. Frog was a writer and a fairly good one at that. His first novel,

The Snail and The Sea, was well received by warmly pond's most esteemed book reviewers.

It had been a book club choice for many of the area book clubs and it was even the subject

of a heated debate on the local radio station. The ending is intentionally vague but my

interpretation is that snail made it to the sea in the end because of the way the author

uses the word salt in the final passage. Francis, that is a total and complete misreading

of the ending. The snail never makes it to the sea. We know this by the way the author.

But that was years ago now. And well, you know how things go. The snail and the sea had

been forgotten by all except its biggest admirers. Snails of course. Frog had been approached

by many of them over the years. But the number of adoring snails had dropped off. And in

the years since, Frog had struggled to complete a new book of the same caliber. That was

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