Didactic Magazine

The cloud of wonder. The cloud of might. The cloud that’ll make everything bright. This cloud was full of anger and spit out happiness. The cloud always mined over a town named Chouseville. Chouseville was a town full of happy people. Everyone wore yellow. Yellow represents happy. Everyone also had a stone in their pocket. Some had black stones and others had white. Their stones represented the color that they were. These people in this town were all 3 ft tall. The reason they were 3 ft. tall is because they all got depressed at the same time a few years ago and it made them all grow short. They all will slowly grow to the height they are supposed to be if they all are happy enough for a certain amount of time. The cloud helps keep everyone happy because its sick of the depression. Everyone in Chouseville got super sick of the boring crap that went on. So, everyone moved to Chisserasville and became fat because they had 100,000-year supply of munchies when they got there. No one knew why the munchies made him or her so fat, since all the bags said they were only 5 calories in each. Come to find out, everyone lost their stones. The stones were so heavy in their pockets that they just fell out. All of the stones that fell out of their pockets became homes for the few people got so depressed that they were only 4 inches tall. These people, which there was only ten of, always sat in circles and talked. They liked being miniature so they stayed depressed. But really they were happy. Just happy to be depressed.  These people, all ten of them, always accomplished something. One of the miniature people was named Josey. It was so small that it couldn’t even pick up a feather. It shrunk to be 3 ½ inches tall. The ten 4 inch people lived on stones and they walked through the tall grass and tried climbing tress like lizards. They went on a mission everyday. They traveled through fields as if they were traveling the world, but they never really moved. These people turned out to be the first people to discover dogwood trees. So they changed their names. Afterwards, they decided to go on another adventure. The Dogwoods walked across the equator 4 times/ they all walked so much that they passed out for four days. They become really famous and everyone loved them. They became happy without noticing and started growing. They eventually grew big enough to pick up their stone houses. Then, they all decided to move to Colorado after Josey passed away from falling off a stem of grass. Poor Josey. The rest of the Dogwoods lived in a Dogwood tree. They’d sit in the tree and just look at everything around them for hours. The dogwoods had no paint in life. Until, little miss Kayley found a piece of paper that said “You deserve a free ticket to wonder cloud!” She wondered what it meant and she asked all the other Dogwoods to help her find out what it meant. They all knew what it was and immediately started jumping in the air and screaming. They all packed their bags and immediately got on the bus to get there. The bus was made of clouds, and arrived as soon as they got done packing their bags. They all had no idea what was going to happen. They didn’t care though. They just decided that they wanted something different. So they all lived in Wonder Cloud for the rest of their lives.

By: Jessie