The Marble: Cloud Gets Saved: Part 3

    Suddenly I was hit, the blade chipped under the grass I off I flew into the sunset.  I hit the pavement, rolled into the curb and I started rolling.  It was wet so I got a good washing as I rolled down the street.  I was slowing down when I heard water draining into a storm drain. Now this was not my idea of a good place to live, the closet was boring enough but I knew a storm drain was dark, wet and damp and there was no chance of finding a real home inside one of those.  I could hear a someone whistling a tune and running along the curb following a leaf that was floating in the water coming up behind me. Joshua as I would soon come to know him began to run faster.  He suddenly scooped me out of the water right before I was going to go down into the storm drain.  He suddenly smiled and said "wow a new marble for my collection this is great".

The Marble: The Roar Part 2

    I laid there in the wet green grass for quite a while.  As the day passed the sun dried out the grass and then it warmed me up and for a while I thought things might turn out fine.  After all what kind of life is it for a marble to sit on the floor of a closet?  It had been a very boring existence, ever day like the last with only the ticktock of the grandfather clock in the hall to keep me company.  Yes I could see glimpses of the world when the closet door was left open.  The bedroom television was turned on and I saw what a real life was like.  Maybe was my favorite show, I longed for Opie to adopt me and take me to Mayberry.  Opie would play with me and maybe put me in his pocket.  Then the day my life changed.  Granted my flight out the window was the first time I had taken to the air and the landing was a bit rough but all in all the day wasn't too bad.   I was not prepared for what would come next.   It was late in the afternoon when the sun was going down that I heard a noise in the distance.  I knew what cars sounded like because the roar came by the window and soon passed.  Weekly I would hear this terrible sounding roar outside that seemed to linger for a while. I was never really sure what it was that caused such a commotion but I felt safe in my closet.  I had heard a lion roar once when my closet door was left open and I knew it was not a lion.  What could the noise be? It was too close to be an airplane. Could it be a lion, no I decided because why would a lion be in our front yard.  I knew lions lived in the zoo.  Soon the roar got closer to me, and wind began to blow the grass across my face and I was getting a little unnerved.  Then it faded away only to return a few minutes later and this time it was closer to me. The third time it approached it came right toward me and I got a good look at it.  It had shiny sharp blades that were going round and round.  These blades were huge and it was moving very fast.  I suddenly realized what it was.....it was a lawnmower and it was headed right towards me.  This looked nothing like the bright red plastic mower my boy played with when he was young.  I knew I was in BIG TROUBLE!!!!!

The Marble: The Arrival Part I

    My name is Cloud.  I am a marble.  I am round and smooth with a background of sky blue with a small spot of white in the center.  During my early years I lived in the closet of a nameless boy.  He never took me out to play, he never polished me or showed me to his friends.  One fateful day he was going through his closet and he took me out!  I has so excited, he took me over to the window that the sun was shining through.  It was time to start my life outside the closet.  To my surprise he held me up to the window alright just long enough to throw me out into the yard.  I was alone in a big world, I wondered what would become of me? For the first time in my five years I was afraid...