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    Cloud Trouble
    Cloud Trouble
    Cloud Trouble
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    Cloud Trouble

    By Duane L. Ostler

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    Inventor Uncle Ned has made a startling discovery--that clouds are alive and can be transformed into common objects! He gives his nephew Talmage the assignment to take a transformed cloud with him, in the shape of a pen, to watch it and see what it says and does.

    However, Talmage soon learns that THIS cloud is nothing but trouble. It has a strange malady called 'Insult-O-Mania' which makes it insult everyone it meets! Talmage quickly finds himself in big trouble at school and everywhere he goes. But when he and his cloud face an unexpected enemy, the insults by Talmage's cloud bring them to the brink of complete disaster!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDuane L. Ostler
    Release dateJun 8, 2015
    ISBN9781311305329
    Cloud Trouble
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    Duane L. Ostler

    Duane L. Ostler was raised in Southern Idaho, and has lived in Australia, Mexico, Brazil, China, Utah, the big Island of Hawaii, and—most foreign of all—New Jersey. He practiced law for over 10 years and has a PhD in legal history. He and his wife have five children and two cats.

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      Cloud Trouble - Duane L. Ostler

      CLOUD TROUBLE

      by Duane L. Ostler

      Published on Smashwords by Duane L. Ostler

      Copyright 2015 Duane L. Ostler

      All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, copied or distributed without the express permission of the author.

      Cover art: http://free-extras.com/photo/m/man_made_of_clouds

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CHAPTER 1: Uncle Ned's Secret Lab

      CHAPTER 2: The Cloud

      CHAPTER 3: Ink on the Dresser

      CHAPTER 4: Trouble at School

      CHAPTER 5: Another Transformation

      CHAPTER 6: More Insults

      CHAPTER 7: Banished!

      CHAPTER 8: A Strange Attack

      CHAPTER 9: The Uprising

      CHAPTER 10: The Arrival of Delrod

      CHAPTER 11: Sponge Cake

      CHAPTER 12: Tomato Chocolate Cookies

      Sneak peak from book 2 in the Cloud Series: 'Clouds In Trouble'

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      CHAPTER 1: Uncle Ned's Secret Lab

      Hello, Talmage. Come on in! Aunt Flo smiled at Talmage with her big, buck teeth. Your uncle Ned is expecting you.

      Talmage smiled back at his Aunt. Her teeth were so big she looked like a beaver. She knew it too. In fact, she liked to tell people she could gnaw her way through a forest in half a day if there happened to be one handy. But since they lived in Thunder Valley City, she chewed pencils instead. Talmage could never find a pencil at her house that didn’t look like it was chewed mostly to death, and was covered with slobber. Talmage always washed his hands after touching one.

      Ned is waiting for you in the closet, said Aunt Flo as Talmage entered the house. She pointed to the tiny coat closet by the front door that was hardly big enough for even Talmage to squeeze into—and he was only 11!

      Most normal people would think it was very strange to meet someone in a closet—and of course, they’d be right. But Aunt Flo and Uncle Ned were anything but normal. They were what his mother politely said was slightly different in their habits. Talmage’s Dad had a different way of saying it. He would roll his eyes and exclaim, those two are completely nuts!

      Thanks, Aunt Flo, said Talmage politely as he opened the closet door.

      Now, don’t stay in there too long, said Aunt Flo with a flash of her buck teeth. And when you come out I’ll have a nice cup of soy milk and garlic cookies for you.

      Aunt Flo was really into health foods, most of which tasted like a mix between dirt and onion juice. Talmage’s stomach churned at the thought of what the ‘garlic cookies’ would taste like. But he just smiled and said, That’ll be great! It was all part of the price of visiting his Uncle Ned.

      Talmage squeezed into the closet and shut the door. For a minute nothing happened. He just stood there in the dark. Then a faint sound came to his ears. Slowly it grew louder and louder. It sounded like a toilet being flushed!

      As the sound grew louder, the floor under Talmage began to turn around and around. It was slow at first, but grew faster and faster. Soon he was spinning around in the tiny closet, going so fast that he had to close his eyes so he wouldn't get dizzy.

      And then the floor beneath Talmage dropped away from him and he found himself falling. He was falling and spinning, while the toilet flush sound grew louder and louder all around him—

      —and then he was flushed right out into his Uncle’s secret inventor’s lab.

      And what a lab it was! There were computer consoles on tables everywhere, with blinking lights. There were glass containers with weird things in them—indescribable things—things you wouldn’t want to know about, and would regret knowing if you found out what they were. One wall was covered with a huge screen, that looked kind of like a TV or theater screen. But of course it wasn’t. It was the computer screen that showed Uncle Ned the result of all his experiments.

      Hello, my boy! called out Uncle Ned from where he was bending low over a table, holding a wicked-looking knife in his hands. He kept stabbing the knife into a grayish mass that looked like it was covered with hair, and quivered whenever it was jabbed. It looked like he was dissecting some unfortunate creature.

      But he wasn’t. He was just eating the lunch of potato skins and orange peels that Aunt Flo had sent down to him.

      Want a bite? said Uncle Ned, stabbing part of the sick looking mass and holding it out to Talmage.

      No thanks, said Talmage, his stomach lurching again. I ate before I came. That was something he always made sure to do before coming here. Then he could honestly say he wasn’t hungry, and couldn’t eat any of the stuff Aunt Flo called ‘food.’

      Well, my boy, said Uncle Ned, I’ve got something special for you today. Something I’ve been working on for weeks. Something that’ll knock your teeth out!

      Uncle Ned was always saying that his latest experiment was something that would ‘knock your teeth out!’ Usually it wasn’t, of course. But every once in awhile he came up with a doozy that actually did. Which was why Uncle Ned had to keep going

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