The Magic Part One: Kansas Magic

Introduction

Have you ever asked your parents if magic was real and all they ever said was of course not dear. Well that's bull. Hello my name is Annie, Annie Gale and I'm 16 years old. I live in Kansas with my uncle Bob and aunt Sally. My parents died to a unknown cause. Then I moved in with my aunt and uncle. We own a farm in a county named Linn county. Its a small town, it's the kind of town where everybody knows everybody else. I go to Sherman High School and its small compared to the other high schools.tl Remember when I told you that everybody knows everybody else well everyone knows me and my family for one reason. My great great I don't know how many greats grandma her name was Dorothy Gale. I always hear stories about her around town like when someone reads an old newspaper at the antique shop they'll say "Ha I remember her, the girl who rode the cyclone and then when she reappeared she was nuts!" or "when the girl got back her parents should have thrown her into the Looney bin!". I remember when I was little and my mom told me stories that her mother told and that her mother before that and you know it started with my great grandma Dorothy Gale. My mom told me about this land called Oz and it's where there is witches and magic and its pleasant and how my great grandma defeated two wicked witches. I saw the movie and asked my mom how this movie is like the stories, she replied with "well one night a young writer named L. Frank Baum came to your great grandma's farm. The writer was fascinated by this so called land "Oz" when your grandma finished telling him he wrote many books about this land and later in time it became a movie. But didn't grandma ever get money or some kind of copyright thing? Well back in their time copyrights weren't really that bad of a crime and your great grandma wanted a quiet simple life and didn't want fame or money. She must have been real kind, yes yes she was. Now when I go to school or anywhere I either hear "oh hey want to jump on a cyclone today and ride to Oz" and "Somewhere over the rainbow my family is nuts" and finally "how about you land on the witches and I follow the yellow brick road". I hate my life and I hate where I live and I hate everybody in this town and you know what I wish I could go away to Oz!