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The weeples chuckling.

Rain, Rain

By Josh Banday
Copyright © {YEAR}
Little Digital LLC.
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A cartoon image of a cloud with rain coming out of it.
It's a
VERY
RAINY
DAY.
A window with rain outside.
A black silhouette of a boy and a dog's head.
I want to curl up in the biggest
BLANKET
with a cup of
hot cocoa
and my
favorite
book.
A chair.A dog.A coffee table.Boy sitting on a chair, reading a book.
But
mom
says we need to run
errands.
A cartoon of a woman on a yellow errand holding a child's hand.
Heavy rain.
Everything is so
wet
and so
cold.
A cloud with rain coming out of it.A boy in a yellow raincoat is running an errand.
The rain keeps finding my face.
A closeup face image of a boy in the rain.
It comes
Front ways
A boy in the raincoat dodging the rain.
and
Sideways
A boy spearing through the rain
and
all
the
ways.
A boy in the yellow raincoat standing in the rain.
I want to
whine
or
scream
or
cry.
The boy screaming.
Instead I
climb
into my
raincoat.
A woman in a raincoat sitting on a bench.An empty raincoat.
An empty raincoat.
A kid climbing down a rope.A rope.
In the imaginary main room, I find
mr. kravitz,
miss sharma,
and
mr. greene.
A top-down view of the living room with Mr. Greene, Mr. Kravitz, and Miss. Sharma seated around a table.A rope.
mr. greene
offers me
Hot Cocoa
and some
Crackers
with
Soft Cheese.
A purple cup of cocoa tea.A wedge of cheese with a yellow rind, sitting next to two smaller wedges of cheese.Wedges of cheese and a cup of cocoa over a dish.
We chat about
errands.
Image of head of Miss SharmaImage of the head of a kid.
Mr. Kravitz escapes sideways rain.
and
Sideways
rain
Image of a head of the fox.
and
gumball
machines.
A gumball machine.An image of Mr. Kravitz head.A blue gumball.A purple gumball.A green gumball.A yellow gumball.A red gumball.
When we've finished,
mr. greene
wipes his whiskers and says he could use my
Help.
Mr. Greene wiping mouth sitting on a chair.
Mr. Kravitz opens the bathroom door.
mr. kravitz
opens the
bathroom
door.
"The entire bathroom has been overrun by weeples."
Mr. Kravitz greeting the weeples.A door with steam. 3 weeples smiling.
He's right.
The kid watching down the weeple.A weeple walking with a towel wrapped around.
Weeples are
everywhere.
An inside-out view of the bathroom with weeples all over the place. 3 weeples smiling.Mr. Greene, Mr. Kravitz, Miss Sharma, and the kid peeking inside the bathroom.
There isn't enough imaginary room for them all.
Weeples sitting over the head of the boy.A falling weeple.A pile of weeples around the boy.
Now, they are spilling out into the
Kitchen.
A top-down view of the kitchen.A pile of weeples.
We try asking the weeples to leave.
But they won't.
Mr. Kravitz asks weeples to leave.
Not with the
Rain
outside.
Weeples
hate
the rain.
Weeples under the umbrella watching the rain.
We try putting them in
jars.
A scene of characters putting weeples into the jars.
But they always find a way
out.
The jar falling open.Weeples getting out of the falling jar.
Weeples know that
jars
jelly.
are for
A scene of Mr. Kravitz watching the empty jar as weeples behind him celebrate their freedom.
We try
packing
them in
boxes.
Miss. Sharma throwing a bag with weeples inside.Everyone's trying to pack the weeples inside the boxes.
We mail them to
Pensacola.
A box with a red umbrella on top of it.A map of the United States.
But the mailmain says they
don't
Deliver
weeples.
Mailman holding a box of weeples.Mr. Kravitz, Mr. Greene, Miss. Sharma and kid surprisingly watching at the mailman on the door as he carries the bag of weeples.
Just then,
miss sharma
comes in with a tray of
tea.
Miss. Sharma throwing weeples with the tray of tea over her head.
"Would anyone like some tea?"
she asks.
woopsie doodle!"
A tipping teapot.A tripping weeple.Miss Sharma trips down.
She trips on a
weeple.
The weeples start
giggling.
The weeples giggling.
Then
chuckling.
The weeples chuckling.
Then
guffawing.
The weeples guffawing.
Soon, they are laughing so hard that they begin to
poof!
"Everyone!"
I say,
"make the weeples
laugh!"
The kid screams as weeples are all over him.
mr. kravitz
does a
silly walk.
Mr. Kravitz dowing a silly walk.
mr. Greene
breaks out his
standup
Comedy
Routine.
Mr. Greene doing standup comedy for weeples.
I balance a
spoon
on my nose.
A spoon.The kid smiles.
miss sharma
juggles the tea set, saying,
"Whoopsie doodle!"
The teacup trips.The teacup trips.Miss. Sharma
One by one, the weeples
poof.
Soon, my imaginary house is clean again.
A scene showcasing clean imaginary house.
We celebrate a job well done with more
soft cheese
and
hot cocoa.
Fox celebrating with a cup of hot cocoa.A very happy Miss. Sharma.Mr. Kravitz smiles.
When everyone's
asleep
A scene of the house where everyone is asleep as the kid decends down the rope.
I climb back
up
and out of my
raincoat.
The kid clims up.the rope.
Mom sitting on the bench.Kid sitting on the bench.
The
sun
is
shining.
A winding path leads through a park, with tall trees on either side and a cityscape in the distance.The sun.Mom and son walking down the path.
The End scene showing the happy kid and angry weeples looking at the clouds.
Young black mother smiles adoringly at her baby as she reads a board book.

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about the author
Josh Banday is an author from Los Angeles with an overly-vivid imagination and a family who is kind enough to indulge him.
‍
With a background as a former educator for middle and high school, Josh found a love for engaging the imagination of all ages, and now shares his love for storytelling with children across the digital world.
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In addition to his writing, Josh is also an accomplished actor, known for his roles on ABC's Not Dead Yet and Amazon's Upload.
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Josh Banday lives in California with his family, where he continues to weave magical stories that inspire and delight readers of all ages.
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