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FOGGY VALLEY --YOU CAN'T KID KIDS

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

A children story complicated by adults. Third in a series. First the Princess and
the frog x-rated because of kissing. Remember the last time you kissed? If you do not
then you are an adult. Every story had to have a villain. In my story it is those who
have forgotten hugging and forgiving. Kids refer to them as adults


CHAPTER TWO

Those children most curious about what was on the other side of the bridge were
told by adults that there were ghosts and goblins. Who preyed on Children as their
special diet. Stories they had been told themselves as children. Most kids this
scared but some this made exciting and the making of an adventure. There is always one.
In this case there were three actually four if you included the dog. Little Brent
with the curly red matted hair who was eight going on nine, his younger brother Ryan
who was six and afraid of nothing, and Sidney their cousin with the impish sad blue
eyes who recently lost her dog.

One Foggy day the children came up missing, as well as Brent's Fewwick fishing pole.
{Shameless use of Commercializing but every story needs tons of commercials.} Brent's
Great Grandpa was one of the original partners designing the Fenwick fishing pole},
a bucket of slimy worms, and his recently captured Bullfrog with strangely human features,
the frog he named dog and noted as caught under No Name bridge. Those villagers not
working the fields were up in arms. They were gathering nettles and spear spiked ferns and
setting warning traps. The more responsible of the civilian force were boiling hot water
and waiting for the farm workers who had pitchforks and mules. All were waiting for darkness
because any attack would happen at night. Both sides were afraid of the foggy mist.

On Monday morning, as they did most Monday mornings they were in Church for Morning
worships. Monday morning was Sunday morning in Foggy Valley. No one really knew why
but Sunday was the day the big football games were on TV. Yes Foggy Valley had TV but
not for news only sports, round screens and the sound did not work. That because they only
had one TV. I am trying desperately to keep this non fiction. Remember roof antennas?
and except for sports had only test patterns. If this is confusing for you think of me who is
doing the reporter writing. My Editor is sending my stories back rejected. Anyhow,
on this morning in the middle of a prayer for the kids heard a dog barking. It was Sydney's
missing dog Holmes. Named because Sidney was always yelling "Come Home!" In the distance they
could hear chanting and singing. Holmes tail was wagging and panting. Everyone knew a dog
wagging his tail was a good sign. Unless being chased by a cat or skunk.

Sure enough following would be Brent, Ryan and Sidney with the sad blue eyes. But they were
not alone. singing and chanting with them were kids of all ages they had never laid eyes on
and were not in the afternoon marble games. As a fact they did not appear evil and looked
much like their own kids. No one of the generations of villagers could remember when the
hatred had begun. So now comes the moral, all children stories must have a moral. If you are
a kid and do not mind your parents you can solve the worlds problems. The world would be better
served. Adults are narrow minded with rules.

We would be better served if not controlled by individuals calling themselves politicians
instead of force and war use communication and understanding. It is time for the world's
people to cross over the bridge and find out what is on the other side. Not be blinded by
the foggy mist of the unknown. This story for children is in my Book " Womb of the Same
Mother." Another shameless advertisement. Not for my Book no longer on the shelf but for
giving peace a chance/dandy








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