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Monday, January 16, 2012

The Blank City

I felt like writing today's story to be uplifting, I hope it brings smiles to you.

Sincerely,

Langdon

The Blank City

        There was once this little cardboard town. Every part of it was made of unmoving, thin and flat pieces of cardboard. This included the trees, houses, fences even the people and animals were blank white pieces of cardboard. The ground itself had also been made from cardboard. One day several children visited this little cardboard town each with their own individual crayon. They knew each other only be the color of their crayons.
        When Red came into town he drew apples on all of the cardboard trees. He also made sure everyone could see all the roses too. When he saw the cardboard houses he gave them bright red doors. He smiled as he colored, he was the little boy who didn't care about any time but the present.
        Green walked through the town with a contemplative look on her face. She wondered why the town needed her to give the trees leaves and the ground grass. But she knew she had to, the town wouldn't be right if she didn't.
        Brown dashed through the town as he gave the dogs fur and the people hair. He colored the tree's bark with broad strokes. He also gave the people big, brown eyes matching his own. He made sure he didn't miss a single person, he wanted to make sure everyone could see him. He later waved at them when he could.
        The mellow Blue came to town without an idea in her head. She looked and looked at the town, trying to think of something that needed to be blue. Only after a few minutes of thinking she figured out what could be colored blue. She went around the town and put big blue tears on all the cardboard people. She didn't like that she made all the cardboard people sad, but when she saw all the other children coloring she had to color something herself.
        When Yellow arrived he saw all the tears and a depressed Blue who had nothing left to color. He walked up to Blue and held out his hand. Blue gave him her crayon as she couldn't think of anything else to do with it herself. Yellow then knelt next to a house and started drawing a big blob of blue on the ground. It took Blue awhile to figure out what he was doing. She smiled when she realized that he was giving the house a pool. She walked up to him. He turned to her and gave her back the crayon. She finished drawing that pool and started making other pools for each of the houses. Yellow took his own crayon and started drawing smiles on all the cardboard people to make their tears happy ones.

1 comment:

  1. I don't know how you come up with all of these creative ideas, Langdon! Just make sure to edit your writing, and watch your grammar, so you can communicate your visions more clearly. They are so worthy of communication. :}

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