The Preposterous Adventures of Michael Mattingly: Chicken Rock Dungeon

By Jackie Vandall Thomas III

Join Michael and his seven-foot-tall purple dragon friend Boris as they embark on adventures through the strangest landscapes possible, meeting talking beans and polar bears and anything else you could dream up. On this particular day Michael and Boris brave a perilous dungeon that's, er...a bit DIFFERENT from the ones they're used to. And little do they know, there's a surprise waiting for them at the end...

"The Preposterous Adventures of Michael Mattingly: Chicken Rock Dungeon" can be read by kids ages 8-11 and enjoyed by anyone who likes a preposterous story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jack Thomas
• Release date: Jun 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301662760

Jackie Vandall Thomas III

Jackie Vandall Thomas III is a children's author who writes and illustrates books that are mostly silly in nature. He lives in a stone fortress up on Mount Shasta with his wife, Sandra the Destroyer, and his army of pet otters. He enjoys Chinese food, non-Chinese food, and puppets.

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The Preposterous Adventures of Michael Mattingly:

Chicken Rock Dungeon

By Jackie Vandall Thomas III

Published at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 by Jack Thomas

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Cans of soup stretched on for what seemed like miles. Endless shelves of them surrounded him, climbing high up into the sky. Red cans, blue cans, white cans, cans of chicken noodle, cream of mushroom, chili, beef broth, clam chowder… It was an endless world of soup. But unfortunately, soup was the last thing on Michael Mattingly’s mind that day.

His mom looked over the soups, went "hmmmm, picked up a can, looked at it, put it back, went hmmmm" again, and she seemed to be doing it all in slow motion. Michael watched her with his eyes wide, waiting—just waiting—for her to finish so they could go home. Because in real life he might have been standing by the shopping cart, watching his mom look at soups, but in his mind he was going crazy! In his mind he was running up and down the aisles and jumping all over the big stacks of soda boxes and tearing open all the bags and throwing everything everywhere! Because something was waiting for him at home that he had been waiting for all day. That’s right, from the moment he woke up, all the way through school and through this unexpected trip to the grocery store he had been waiting until the moment when he could sit down in front of his computer.

Why his computer, you ask? Well, technically what Michael was waiting for can be found on a computer or a notebook or even a piece of paper! Michael was waiting to get home so that he could go on an adventure! But not some regular old adventure, because