I'm pleased to finish my first blogging story. I hope you will enjoy it in spite of the fact that it is all out of order and I haven't figured out how to organize it yet. Forgive me also the tardiness with which it was written. I expect that I shall try to compose an entire bulk before I publish it next time.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Army on the Move/ Army on the Ground
"I saw them going , Gramma. I saw them going!"
"Saw who going, Sarah?" Betty was preoccupied with her seed catalog, but always tried to avoid ignoring any of the kids when they spoke.
"I saw those bloody army worms flying away Gramma"
As Betty told Allan and Jane later, "I was mightily glad that I didn't have my cup of tea in my hand."
Sarah had recounted the whole history of her picture and her commandments as she painted it and how she had watched carefully since the snow melted ,many times making special requests to be at Gramma's after school and on weekends.
"I was surprised how much time she wanted to be outside." marveled Betty.
Meanwhile somewhere in the vicinity of Yorkton, Saskatchewan ,Tony let out a little squeak..
"i'm tired Tannis"
The whole troop was hoarse, voices badly depleted by three days of flying, unbroken except for sleep and very abbreviated eating spells . As a rule they had only begun eating when some fool would open their mouth to speak and out would come the unbreakable cry "Move out"
Tony's plaintive bleat was the first independant speech in Wormese that any of them had made since the previous fall when they all bid farewell as they stitched themselves in for the winter.
"TIRED!" Lina's voice would normally have made Tony flinch from the volume when delivered with this intensity. The thing that got him banking to the left this time was the shrill and deadly fierceness of it.
"Tired? You sack of dog dirt. Tannis and me and every other mother's daughter in this outfit is needing to set down and lay a mess of eggs. Tired? You have nothing to complain about"
"Saw who going, Sarah?" Betty was preoccupied with her seed catalog, but always tried to avoid ignoring any of the kids when they spoke.
"I saw those bloody army worms flying away Gramma"
As Betty told Allan and Jane later, "I was mightily glad that I didn't have my cup of tea in my hand."
Sarah had recounted the whole history of her picture and her commandments as she painted it and how she had watched carefully since the snow melted ,many times making special requests to be at Gramma's after school and on weekends.
"I was surprised how much time she wanted to be outside." marveled Betty.
Meanwhile somewhere in the vicinity of Yorkton, Saskatchewan ,Tony let out a little squeak..
"i'm tired Tannis"
The whole troop was hoarse, voices badly depleted by three days of flying, unbroken except for sleep and very abbreviated eating spells . As a rule they had only begun eating when some fool would open their mouth to speak and out would come the unbreakable cry "Move out"
Tony's plaintive bleat was the first independant speech in Wormese that any of them had made since the previous fall when they all bid farewell as they stitched themselves in for the winter.
"TIRED!" Lina's voice would normally have made Tony flinch from the volume when delivered with this intensity. The thing that got him banking to the left this time was the shrill and deadly fierceness of it.
"Tired? You sack of dog dirt. Tannis and me and every other mother's daughter in this outfit is needing to set down and lay a mess of eggs. Tired? You have nothing to complain about"
Army on the Move/ Army on the Ground
SCCHHHLOOP!!!!!
That's what it sounded like to Tannis as her cocoon opened. The sound to the outside world was measurably less, to the extent of being nonexistent. Tannis wriggled loose from the rumpled slump that used to be her winter tent. Never one for brushing her teeth, Tannis coughed roughly and spit 7 months of a greenie over the side of the branch that she hung on. Feeling itchy she twisted and scratched, unaware of the multitudes of virtually silent scchhlooops all around her. Her eyes stood wide open as she beheld upon her very own back "WINGS!!!!"
"wings" had been the word in her mind heart,mouth but the croaky roar that hit the light of day was not "wings" but
"MOVVVVE OUTTT!!!!!!!!"
Tannis spit and tried again
"MMMMOOOOOVVVEEE OUTT!!!
If possible the second cry was even louder than the first and before she could try a third time she could hear the cry taken up all around by millions and millions all around her move out move out move out move out MOOVE OUTTT.. MOVE OUT
and they did. so many so that they made the sky dark all around on wings that neither they nor Tannis could acknowledge the new wings which had grown in their cold winter storage....
"I don't even recognize Lina in this mess thought Tannis, "Maybe I'll try a little yell"
"MOOOOOOVE OUTTTT!!!!!!!"
That's what it sounded like to Tannis as her cocoon opened. The sound to the outside world was measurably less, to the extent of being nonexistent. Tannis wriggled loose from the rumpled slump that used to be her winter tent. Never one for brushing her teeth, Tannis coughed roughly and spit 7 months of a greenie over the side of the branch that she hung on. Feeling itchy she twisted and scratched, unaware of the multitudes of virtually silent scchhlooops all around her. Her eyes stood wide open as she beheld upon her very own back "WINGS!!!!"
"wings" had been the word in her mind heart,mouth but the croaky roar that hit the light of day was not "wings" but
"MOVVVVE OUTTT!!!!!!!!"
Tannis spit and tried again
"MMMMOOOOOVVVEEE OUTT!!!
If possible the second cry was even louder than the first and before she could try a third time she could hear the cry taken up all around by millions and millions all around her move out move out move out move out MOOVE OUTTT.. MOVE OUT
and they did. so many so that they made the sky dark all around on wings that neither they nor Tannis could acknowledge the new wings which had grown in their cold winter storage....
"I don't even recognize Lina in this mess thought Tannis, "Maybe I'll try a little yell"
"MOOOOOOVE OUTTTT!!!!!!!"
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