Episode One
“In the dumps”
In the Forest Green, a three-foot-tall, furry, brown creature with large black eyes was moving quickly. The hour was getting late and he had wandered very far from his home in The Village Glory. He hadn’t meant to be gone so long- he just wanted to have an adventure.
The trees in the Village Glory were thick and tall. It was between the base of two such trees that the Grandpa had made their home. And it was there that the creature had first heard his Grandpa talk about The Forest Green and the wonders of the world.
For, just as long as he could remember, he had heard stories about his Grampa- how Grampa had taken off by himself, “just looking” Grampa would say. Grampa would be gone for hours and just when Gramma thought he was a goner, Grampa would show up with some story to tell. With a grin on his face, Grampa would recall his unexpected meeting with a very tall, pale man and would recount the fight for his life; saying how the critter grabbed Grampa by his furry collar, tried to drag him away but how Grampa tricked him, played dead until the man dropped him and Grampa took off. Often, Grampa would embellish his stories with tales of people hiking in the woods leaving all kinds of goodies to eat; of prospectors around camp fires that burned long into the night; of strange objects streaking across the sky that made crackle like sounds as they lit up the forest. Gramma would shake her head and tell Grampa that one of these days he was gonna get eaten up or something if he didn’t stay away from places he didn’t belong. But Grampa would laugh, and say, “Gramma, I’m Grampa Brown and I belong wherever I am.”
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