TULIP: An Allegory

Once there was a great, dark building guarded by a tall, dark creature. A man dressed in white strode to the door and handed the dark creature a bag of gold coins. “That is the exact amount for the ones I come for,” the man in white said as he pushed inside with barely a glance at the creature. Inside lay rows and rows of dead men, women, and children killed by a deadly plague that had infected and killed the entire country. The man in white strode purposefully between the rows before he knelt,...