Random Book of Random

Little House

People often look up to the night sky and see shapes in the stars. Stories and legends form from these shapes, but one story is true. It's one you can only see from a planet much like Earth, but this planets history is much different. One of its greatest stories is of a small creature that lived alone. His story began on a normal day of his, in his bigger-on-the-inside home.

Egbert, a small turtle, had built his home from the insides of a mushroom. This was an average mushroom from his planet; it was about the size of a tree. He tunneled through the mushroom to build himself a home.

Because Egbert was small for his kind of turtles, people often thought he wasn't good enough for jobs around the mushroom city. He decided instead of searching endlessly for a job in the city, he would move to the bog a few kilometers away from the city and live there, undisturbed.

Egbert was quite proud of his house. It had a nice kitchen, a many extra rooms (just in case he ever had guests), a nice living room, but the part he was proudest of was his library. He has shelves upon shelves of books that he had collected, and written, over the years.

Egbert, having no other entertainment, read all of the books. He learned many new things, like how gravity worked, how his body worked, how plants grew, and may more things. But the thing he was most enthralled in was the solar system. He loved reading books about the stars and planets.

One day, Egbert decided he was done living alone in his little mushroom house on the edge of the bog. He went into town and purchased many things, like oil and steel. He used the money he had slowly earned throughout the years by writing books and selling them.

The people of the city still thought lesser of him, and when he began telling other turtles and creature alike of his thoughts and dreams, they mocked him. But Egbert was never one to hold a grudge. He would just smile and tell them he would send them a post card from wherever his travels led him.

On his trip to town, he caught the attention of a young frog. This frog, like Egbert, was smaller than the rest of his kind. He saw how smart and kind Egbert was, and he decided to follow him and see what Egbert was up to. When Egbert returned home to begin building, the little frog named Theo asked what Egbert was doing.

Egbert explained what he planned to do, expecting once more to be mocked for his ridiculous ideas. But little Theo had never been more excited; all Theo did all day was read the books Egbert had written about space, and all night Theo would lay on his back and gaze up at the stars. Egbert, excited to have a friend, asked Theo if he wanted to help.

Together the two small outcasts worked all day using the bright blue sun in the sky for light, and at night they used the shinning moons to guide their building. After a full week of building, the little mushroom house was finished being modified. Egbert and Theo went into town one last time and used all of their money to buy food and other supplies.

They told people that Egbert's plan was going to be put into motion that night, and many townspeople gathered to watch what they thought was going to be an utter failure.

Theo and Egbert made their final preparations and before they knew it, night had fallen. Theo and Egbert climbed into their mushroom house and Egbert began to count down. When he reached one, both him and Theo yelled out, "Blast off!' and the little mushroom house shot into the sky.

The townspeople croaked and cried with astonishment. They watched as the little mushroom soared right in between the two moons of their world. The people say that Egbert and Theo still watch the planet as the people go around their daily lives, but others say they have gone far away in search of others like them. Others who are smaller than them, who are outcastes just like they were.

But one thing everyone on that planet knows is that once a year, when the two moons are at their peak in the sky and the bog shines like diamonds in the rough, you can see a little mushroom house sitting in its place upon the stars.

~fin~

This was a little story I had to write for science. We had to pick out a constellation from a sky that was viewed from another Earth-like planet. I saw a mushroom house and them this appeared.
I decided to post it because why not.
Peace.