di here.
this new story is about a bug. a ladybug. a cute little bug that likes to fly.
dotty the ladybug had big green eyes and a sweet light red shell. her mommy, veronica, looked just like her except she was magenta instead of light red, and she was bigger. dotty lived happily in the garden under a bush.
dotty was old enough to learn to fly. she was good, but not so good as to escape dangers - like the big glass jar that suddenly dotty got caught in.
she was practicing flying one day when a huge glass jar cupped over her. it was held by a mean-looking boy.
"bug soup," he said. "you won't make much soup by yourself, but with a couple others you'll be fine."
dotty's mommy was too far away to save her. dotty was trapped. the boy carried her around a while, then put her in a pot with other bugs. there was shelly, the snail; charlotte, the spider; wiggle, the other spider, who smuggled apples; dragon, the caterpillar, who smuggled his sunglasses; jacques, the french lovebug,who smuggled a carrot; flutter, the butterfly, who smuggled cheese; and of course dotty.
in the pot,they wondered what to do. the water was hot and uncomfortable, the food quickly inedible, the oxygen slowly dwindling even in the air: there was a lid on the pot.
suddenly the lid came off. a giant ladle came in the pot and scooped up dotty's new friends one by one. dotty was alone in the pot. the ladle soon came down and scooped her up, too.
dotty squirmed unhappily in the bowl she was in. sure that she would be eaten, she thought of her mommy searching for her fruitlessly.
dotty felt the spoon lifting her up. she imagined the huge mouth and slimy throat. what she got, however, was a soft hand gently picking her up and slipping her into a pocket.
dotty heard her unexpected savior get up and leave. after a smooth ride, she saw the hand reach inside and grasp her. the soft hand rinsed the soup off her with warm water - not the freezing rain water at home, nor the boiling water in the pot - warm water, pleasantly warm. the soft hand set her on a small table while it neatly set up a doll's bed covered with soft thick white bedding.
dotty got snuggled up in the bed. the hand left and flicked off the light.
after many days, while the hand and its match made a couch, two dressers, two bedside tables, one kitchen table, and a second bed that was slightly larger, dotty wanted her mommy. she told the hands so, and they soon set her mommy down and presented dotty with the second bed for her mother.
well, they lived like this for a while. then the hands presented themselves and their owner as diana. diana was to be a ladybug for halloween. dotty was coming on a leash.
dotty loved trick-or-treating. she got lots of people loving diana and herself. she even got her own candy bit!
dotty was happy.
