Welcome back! It has REALLY been a struggle for me this month to continue with this project because my garden has captured my attention. But I finally got the gardening bug-bite scratched and illustrated the key scenes in this month's chapter. Please remember these are just snippets of what is going on. Since I've already decided not to pursue publishing the book, you will never get the chance to read the story in its entirety, so I certainly understand if you want to bail out at this point. I'm only putting these snippets out into the internet world with the hope that serendipitously a publisher will come by and ask to read my manuscript.
As you may recall
last month Gabriel found out from Conner Chipmunk that Poetry and her family had moved to Scotland. Then the two cats, George and Molly, told him he should try to hitch a ride to Baltimore in the furniture truck that was coming later that morning. . . .
Chapter 4 – The Journey Begins
After the truck was
emptied of the furniture George and Molly distracted the driver and his helper. Gabriel scampered into the truck while the ramp was still down and hid in the back of the truck under a packing blanket.
George and
Molly stood in the driveway, waving goodbye to Gabriel with their tails.
It didn’t take that
long to get to Baltimore. When the
driver opened the back door to the truck he got a big surprise!
“Hey!” the driver
shouted as Gabriel scooted from under the blanket and darted past him. Gabriel leapt out of the back of the truck and did not look back. He just kept
running until he was sure the man wouldn’t catch up with him. When Gabriel saw an alley he turned into it and found a large
garbage container to hide behind.
