Getting started

Just to get things started here I have added here a short story piece of fiction written as a story for kids.. Let me know if you like it.

Cagney -

Cagney was a small dog with black eyes, a black nose, white shaggy fur and very short legs. He had fallen on tough times a while back and so he had found himself in the dog pound where he'd spent months in a small cage with newspaper shavings in the bottom. It was when he was let out in the yard to play for half an hour each day that he met bigger dogs with long legs who could run fast and could jump high that he realized that he had very, very short legs.

Bill and Carmen came to the pound one Wednesday and took Cagney home with them. They were recently married and had a nice apartment in which he was free to wander. They put a special door in their door so he could walk out to the backyard anytime. They found a soft pillow bed made of blue fabric with little tiny flowers which he could sleep on. Cagney loved his new home. They all went out walking in the neighborhood and he could check out all the bushes and walk in all the yards. Though he was on the leash, he really enjoyed these long walks. There were times when they went out in the country would let him loose to run and run in the fields and as they began to trust that he would not run away, they would use the leash less and less.

One day they decided to go to the local fair. Cagney felt there was a lot of noise and a lot of things going on there. Many people were running around, going to stands to get food, jumping on ferris wheels, riding in small cars and shouting and yelling. It was very exciting for him. But with all of the people around him he still felt pretty small and sometimes he had a hurry to keep up because of his short legs. As he was walking he came to a thing that looked like a big red box. There was glass around the top and he could see there was a doll inside and above the top of the window were the letters: “F O R T U N E S”.

Well, Cagney was a pretty smart dog and he had learned to read a little bit so he thought that this meant music would come out of the box. He found a coin lying on the ground and he picked it up in his teeth and he put it in the slot in the front of the box. Instead of music, the doll in the box started to move and pretty soon it picked up a small piece of paper and dropped it a down a chute. The piece of paper came out from a slot in the front of the box. On the paper it's said "If you stand tall you will be tall". Well that sounded good to him but he didn't really know what it meant.

Just then there was a commotion and Cagney saw a boy running with a purse in his hand. Somebody was screaming, “He stole my purse”. Without even thinking Cagney chased after the boy. He managed to get close enough so that he could bite the boys leg and hold onto his pants. He held on for dear life. They bumped and scraped along till others caught up and grabbed the thief. There was a lot of commotion and flying dust as they held the boy down and got the purse back.

Someone said, “Whose dog is this? Why this dog is a hero, a life saver, a valiant warrior.” Bill and Carmen stepped forward and said, “That’s Cagney our dog.” They were all amazed at how so small a dog with such short legs could do such a fine thing. So there was a ceremony with flowers, ribbons, speeches and a special new bowl with Cagney’s name engraved on it. Cagney now felt that he knew what meant when the fortune teller’s paper had said. “If you stand tall you will be tall.”

That's it... hope you enjoyed it.