Congratulations to Emma Bazley, third place winner of our Story Beginnings Contest! She did an amazing job, and I'm sure you will enjoy her story.
The McCloud kids By Emma Lynn Bazley Some things in life are unmistakably, undeniably clear. Things like, 'the sky is blue', 'the Sun is yellow,' and, 'if you are breathing, you are alive, and if you aren't, then you're not' (no matter what the zombies might say.) things that, if you declare aren't true, you will be immediately labled as a nutcase and shipped off to the nearest insane asylum. The phrase 'the McClouds are the strangest family in north Carolina and possibly the world' is right up there with the breathing one. Nobody really knew the McClouds. Everyone knew they were weird, but for different reasons. Old Mrs. Goodenough from across the street, for example. If you asked her what she thought of the McClouds, she would promptly gasp and say " What I think of them? WHAT I THINK OF THEM?!? They're WILD that's what I think of them! WILD!! All them children runnin' round by themselves," ( that wasn't entirely true, they rode their bicycles too ) -" Well, well, it's just SCANDALOUS!! SCANDALOUS!!" this was normal for her, seeing as she thought most of everything was scandalas, unless it was Victorian tea or early bedtimes. Almost nothing was goodenough for Mrs. Goodenough. And Mr. Chu, the garbageman.if you asked him, he would say, "Every Tuesday, I go to McCloud house. I open can, I see shoes. Shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes! Girl shoes! Big shoes! Small shoes! Pink shoes! In China, people don't wear pink shoes! Americans wear pink shoes! If Americans stop wearing pink shoes, who wears them?! Who, huh?! THE FRENCH?!? Mr. Chu had a very low opinion of The French. And if you asked the Plumber, he would go on and on about the HUGE hairballs he fished out of the McClouds drainage pipes every other Saturday, and if you asked the grocer he would tell you about the strange things they ordered, things like 'Quinoa' and 'kimchi' ( whatever that was.) But you're probably wondering who are the McClouds exactly? Are they who everyone says they are? Are they better? Worse? All of this in a moment.
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