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The Precocious Donovan Kluckk Leads the Gang to Rome!
In this Life Two of the Nine Lives of Donovan Kluckk, Donovan’s aunt Matilda sends Donovan, Jesse, and Daisy to Rome, with Sniffer as service dog. Stinkk and Stinkk stowaway for the some serious airport and air travel antics.
The underground fort, like the books before arose from the earth of a real underground fort that my friends and I built in the old horse pasture behind our house in Phoenix. We covered the interior walls with bedspread and candles for light. For the roof, we found a rusted Jeep hood, which we placed over a 2×4 inch wooden frame. Over the hood we shoveled desert gravel and even planted sages and weeds we relocated from the surrounding field.
To enter the structure we had to crawl on all fours between the hood and the dugout. Once inside, were felt safe in our own earthen cocoon. I’ll not forget the night some neighbor likely phoned in a complaint of boys with flashlights disappearing into the ground. A police officer walked his way across the horse pasture, and, after questioning our building practices, did the only thing a reasonable officer would do, in our child minds. He jumped up and down, crashing to earth on the Jeep hood, with dust flying and transplanted xeriscape around his boots. And with a nod of approval, he walked off and left us to our subterranean habitation.
The In-Flight Faerie
The photo I took of my wife, Carol, in front of our Phoenix home provided the inspiration for her in-flight faerie cameo.
Below you see her image morphed into an elf, and in Mia Kluckka she welcomes the children as the in-flight faerie. A good fit for this job description.
I suppose if there was a theme for “Mia Kluckka!” it is that God choose the weak and unlikely to lead the rest of us in the kingdom. In a world filled with Lord Snitwells who don’t sit well, we can learn to appreciate one another. One secret, which I won’t reveal here, reminds me of God’s way of choose the lease of these as I greet our cat, Stinkk.
Paper and hardback editions to follow.
Jim
