A Light in the Darkwood

By Ernest Kinnie, PhD
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Published: June 04, 2010
Words: 2765 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

A bedtime story. Two children learn to create reality. The brother and sister run from a sow bear into the Darkwood where they are captured by little people. They create food for the little people and then realize that they can also use their imagination to escape. They then learn how to play with their imagination to create a marvelous, magical world of adventure and delight.

Extended description

Dorothy and Squeaky ran down the path Splashed across the tiny brook Hurried past the stinky skunk cabbage. Waved to the red-headed woodpecker banging his nose against an old tree. And came to the huckleberry patch. Hundreds of blue huckleberries. Thousands of fat huckleberries. Millions of juicy huckleberries.

They stuffed their mouths and stuffed them again, and were about to stuff them some more when they heard a sound nearby. They went over to see who it was, except it wasn’t nobody. It was a big, black, sow bear, eating huckleberries like everybody else. Except she didn’t want to share. She reared up on her hind legs, growled, and waved her long yellow claws in the air. A very selfish bear. And then she dropped down on all fours and started toward them.

“RUN!” Dorothy shouted. And they ran.... (Read more) Dorothy and Squeaky ran down the path Splashed across the tiny brook Hurried past the stinky skunk cabbage. Waved to the red-headed woodpecker banging his nose against an old tree. And came to the huckleberry patch. Hundreds of blue huckleberries. Thousands of fat huckleberries. Millions of juicy huckleberries.

They stuffed their mouths and stuffed them again, and were about to stuff them some more when they heard a sound nearby. They went over to see who it was, except it wasn’t nobody. It was a big, black, sow bear, eating huckleberries like everybody else. Except she didn’t want to share. She reared up on her hind legs, growled, and waved her long yellow claws in the air. A very selfish bear. And then she dropped down on all fours and started toward them.

“RUN!” Dorothy shouted. And they ran.

They ran into the woods. Past the squawking blue jays. Past two noisy squirrels jumping up and down on a tree branch. Past a brown rabbit with big eyes who stared at them as they ran by. Past the green bushes and the green trees. Deeper and deeper into the Darkwood. Past bright yellow bushes and bright blue trees.
They ran until they couldn’t run anymore.

They looked back to see if the old, black, sow bear was following them. No sow bear. She was probably back at the huckleberry patch eating all those juicy huckleberries. It was getting dark and everything looked very strange. “Are bushes supposed to be yellow”, Squeaky asked, “and why are all the trees blue?”

“Weird”, Dorothy answered, and she began to think that they were in a very creepy place.

Everything became very quiet as the darkness came on. The strange trees and bushes disappeared into the darkness around them.
“What are we going to do”, Squeaky asked. “Well it’s too dark to find our way home now, so we’ll just have to wait until the sun comes back up”, Dorothy answered. “I don’t wanna”, Squeaky wailed, and began to cry. Dorothy wasn’t feeling too happy either, but had to be brave for her little brother.

“Hey look”, Squeaky said, pointing to a tiny light that was bobbing up and down off in the distance. It was coming toward them. “Let’s go see who it is.” Dorothy wanted to but remembered that her mother told her not to talk to strangers. “No, might not be friendly.” Dorothy grabbed Squeaky and they ran behind a bush as the light got closer and closer.
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story, goblins leprechauns gremlins little people imagination dreaming, sow bear adventure flying creating fantasy reality childrens fantasy

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