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Leigh Neuage (July 6 1983 - August 16 2003) --
Latest story >>>The Magic Mansion (http://neuage.org/MM/ Maggie and Mabel's Magic Mansion will take them wherever they wish to go. The house used for this story is a model made by my father-in-law after visiting our house in Round Lake, New York and upon return to Australia he built this model based on his memory of our house. The page for this house is at http://neuage.org/house/ As of October 2015 there are three chapters and an introduction to these adventures.
Our New House
When my dad said that we
were going to move I wasn't too happy about it. We had moved too much as it was.
This would be our third time in five years.
Our new house was at
Monday Bay and my dad said this would be our last move for a long time. I liked
the new town but I was worried about what our neighbors would be like? I know we
have neighbors, I have seen their houses, but I haven't seen
them.
This is the first time I
have had neighbors so close. We have always lived in the country with a lot of
land. At Monday Bay I will only have a small yard. I won't be able to fly my
radio-controlled airplane, or go for long walks in the
paddocks.
But there is a lot to do
in a town. I can join a basketball or baseball team and meet more kids. But I am
worried what the neighbors will be like.
Sometimes I think, 'what
if our neighbors raise dragons'? Big ugly monster dragons that breathe fire and
eat children or even their smaller brothers. Maybe the dragons eat parents, or
dogs. What if it eats our new house before we even move in? Maybe the dragons
will eat our new house with us all in it for its Christmas
breakfast.
Then again, I could make
friends with the dragons. If I had a dragon for a friend I could fly to the
mountains, the forests, the country or even to an island if I wanted to. I could
teach the dragon to ride a bike and we could go to the bike track together. Now
that I think about it I would love to have a family of dragons for my
neighbors.
What if our house is
being built on top of a volcano? That would be terrible. In the middle of the
night the volcano could erupt. Our beautiful new house would go flying into the
air. My dad says there isn't a volcano under the ground where our new house is
but he could be wrong. Even dads are wrong sometimes.
It could be a hidden
volcano way way deep under our house. I could be jumping on my trampoline and
then jump off of it onto the ground and that could wake up the earth and then
*BOOOOOM*. Lucky for me I will have a family of dragons living next to me and
they will be able to fly my family away from the fiery
volcano.
What if we have bank
robbers next door? Dragons on one side, bank robbers on the other - and the
volcano, too! Maybe the robbers will dig a tunnel in their back yard to the
banks three blocks away.
The bank robbers may
ever steal our dog to dig the tunnel. Our dog loves digging holes and he
wouldn't know a bad hole from a good hole. I will have to teach him about bank
robbers. Maybe there is a book at the Monday Bay Public Library, How to teach
your dog to stay away from bank robbers.
I even wrote a letter to
the police and told them we had bank robbers next to our new house. They will
know what to do. Maybe I will get a reward. Actually I hope there are bank
robbers next door because if there are not any I will be in
trouble.
What about the
Greenhouse effect? Living by the sea may be dangerous. The ice could melt at the
poles and with dragons breathing fire into the air it will only get worse.
Luckily we are buying a sailboat. We will be able to sail away when the sea
rises.
There could be Martians
next door or people who keep tigers in the back yard or even a herd of angry
ageing African elephants. The army may have a hidden military base under the
neighbor's house. Maybe my new schoolteacher lives next door or there could be a
rock and roll band that likes to play loud in the middle of the
night.
Then again, there could
be just regular people next door and they could have regular kids that are fun
to play with. Maybe they are even worried about us. I will just go and meet
them. But I will take my dad and our dog with us just in
case.
© Terrell Neuage
1997
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