Title: Leaving For Decency
Tooby looked around Fraggle Rock. Everyone loved this place and many in the human world would kill to be there instead of fighting the wars outside of it. The way of speaking was obscene, the dream sharing was ridiculous and everyday the would sing the theme song
''Dance your cares away. Worry's for another day. Let the music. Down at fraggle rock. Work your cares away. Dancings for anotehr day. Let the fraggles play. We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Goober, Red. Dance your cares away. Worry's for another day. Let the music play. Down at fraggle rock. Down at fraggle rock. Down at fraggle rock.''
One fter the theme song goober ran up to him and asked
''Hey Tooby!''
''Greetings goober, how is one on another day in the rock of fraggle''
''Haha your funny. Are you going to come dream share with us later?''
''My dreams are too big for a mind for the minds of stitch that exist around me.''
''Isn't today a wonderful day''
''Not really, we are all still made of cloth and have colourful hair that I cannot change into a decent one''
Tooby did not get the attention that Boober, Gobo or Mokey received. Not that he wanted that. He was inspired by the human world. And desired to work out of in the human world, perhaps as a carpenter, perhaps a man in an office, perhaps working in a bank. Toobies favourite word was ''decent''. He wanted a decent human life, with a decent wife, decent sex, decent food, decent clothes, decent holidays and so and so forth.
Tooby never told other fraggle about this and never took part in the dream sharing sessions.
One day Tooby woke up with a desire to make his dreams come true. Out of the hole they lived in was a man and his dog that was by a lighthouse. Tooby could escape the hole and run for his life, or he could talk to the man outside with his dog and ask him for help.
Tooby grabbed a fraggle cookie and ran out of the rock before anyone could see him and start singing. He ran for the hole to find the dog sleeping as well as the man on the chair. Tooby pulled on the mans pants but it did not work. So he climbed up his pants and reached into his wallet here he found some money.
Tooby ran out of the house which was by the ocean. He ran until he found a bus stop.
What would the bus driver think if he saw him. Would he treat him normally? Perhaps he would not even see him.
The bus arrived and the door opened. Tooby looked at the bus driver. His muppet eyes went behind his head in awe
''Do you wish to ride this bus, sir''
''Yes, please''
Tooby climbed up the steps of the bus. And put his money forth (a fifty dollar bill). The bus driver looked down at the money and smiled
''You can ride the bus for free sir. I'm not going to bother breaking that up''
Tooby smiled and climbed up the steps getting his sitiched together hands dirty. He walked down the aisle of the bus and looked for a seat, they were all taken except for one. Tooby approached it and looked up to see a gentleman sitting down with a newspaper.
''Excuse me sir, could you lift me up onto the seat. I am afraid I am too small to get up myself''
The gentleman looked down and smiled. He picked Tooby up and placed him on the seat next to him.
''Rather a bother these seats don't you''
This kind of statement gave Tooby shivers of excitement
''Oh yes, I must admit this is my first time riding the bus''
''Is that so. Could one assume you are from out of town.''
''I am indeed. I do hope to famliarise myself with the town more. Get myself a decent haircut and outfit''
''Well I manage a bank and we are always looking for people of decency. Are you good with numbers?''
''The best where I come from. While everybody else wants to dance and dream, bunch of puppets''
''Yes, well let me bring you in for an interview. It seems you need a helping hand which is what banks are always here for.''
Tooby was very excited by this. This is what he had always wanted.
''That is most generous of you. Where is your bank located''
''I'm going there now, the next stop
I will look forward to it!! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. What will you look forward to?
DeleteSounds like it's going to be quite different. Quite like how you made the theme song sound so monotonous. Showed the boredom quite effectively..
ReplyDeleteYes. I think the story could also be implying that such a cherry world could drive people mad at the end of the day. Not that I wanted Tooby to represent the audience in anyway. Hopefully it is enjoyable to look at him from a distance making his way through both worlds.
DeleteI like the way Tooby talks, like he is really boring and human and the other Fraggles are all happy and whimsical. I will be interested to see how the story turns out.
ReplyDeleteThank-you. Yes the back and forth between the characters is something I am deliberatly putting in to be funny. Ultimately character is what generates alot of comedy as opposed to somebodies status. Meaning it's not funny because Tooby is sad, it's funny because he is who he is in such a different place.
DeleteVery kind responses from you all. Thanks so much.
ReplyDeleteSounds very interesting and very curious about how will it be of the circumstances of tooby. because this is the first time he left fraggle rock. in other hand, because of tooby has the skill for numbers thats why he could find the first job easily, as he could intergrate with human being. Hope his dream come true in the end.
ReplyDeleteI am going to give Tooby human characters that help him as much as possible because I want him to succeed and I want to take him as far as I can in eight hundred to one thousand words. Plus Tooby is not a bad person so it can be uplifting to see him go far.
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ReplyDeleteWell under way> OMG
ReplyDelete"everyday the would sing the theme song" Clarify 'the'
Spelling
"One fter the theme song goober ran up to him and asked" clarify.
The dialogue works well but a little editing would not go astray.
I like the way you avoid the he said she said trap
Ah yes, the spelling I need to go over. I am glad you liked me avoiding the he said, she said trap.
DeleteI've been doing that in my writing all year in different classes as well.
I think it flows better that way. And to me people can figure out on there own who said it. But the main point is the sentence was said not who it came from!