Sweetie: Beginnings

By Tiffanee J.A. Griffiths

A Darker children's novel, following the creation of a red haired rag doll, and her journey to help save the ones she loves. Thirsty for knowledge, she quickly realizes the world is much bigger than she ever thought possible. Join Sweetie in this first installment, and find out how she begins her adventures.
Book One
ages 6+
All Rights Reserved
Tiffanee J.A. Griffiths

*Please pre-read to assure appropriate for your child.
**Not liable for: nightmares, stranges questions, or requests to begin a sewing project
*All characters are fictitious, and any resemblance to real life humans, is purely coincidental.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329497498

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Sweetie: Beginnings

SWEETIE: BEGINNINGS

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2015 by Tiffanee J.A. Griffiths

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the Publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2015

ISBN 978-1-329-49749-8

Lulu Press, Inc

Tiffanee J.A. Griffiths

P.O. Box 1954

Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada, V0C 1J0

www.tiffaneegriffiths.com

www.sweetieandpod.com

PREFACE

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Sweetie is a Leapling. Born on a day that comes only once every four years. A Ginger trying to find balance between mischief, and her K.K.M. (Kinetic Karmatic Metre). Made from rags by her Ol’ Widow May when she blew herself to pieces playing with Fire, This is the story of her beginning

Dedicated to my Reiken, Phoenix, and Brad

MAP

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CHAPTER ONE

Mischievous Orphan

The townsfolk in the Interior Bay of Austin Isles had a problem, The Old Widow May had adopted… found, a beautiful little girl with hair as red as fire a few years back.  The poor thing had been cast out to the sea in nothing but a basket, and wrapped in a rabbit skin.  No one knows how long the child had been out there for, but by the looks of the milk-bladder, the contents had been gone awhile.

On the brink of death, the babe was slowly nursed back to health by the old woman, who also happened to be the local Healer.  An attachment grew like no other, and after some time the Old Widow May stopped asking new folks in the Villages if they knew anything of this darling girl. So in love she was with this child that the girl grew up with the name Sweetie for Old Widow May could never call her anything else.

Now, Sweetie had impulses, which started to show as she became more curious about the world around her.  This is true for all children, around the age of two or maybe even three, but Sweetie now reached her 8th year with the Old Widow May!

May would sometimes joke with the locals when Sweetie would cause destruction over their crops and such; I found her on a Leap Day, which we celebrate as her birthday, so technically she’s JUST hitting ‘terrible twos’… but after so many times of excuses, the humour was all sucked out of her joke.  The Farmer’s nicknamed her That red headed child and proceeded to put signs up around their fence lines saying No Gingers Allowed!

It wasn’t really Sweetie’s fault.  She had a tendency to push any button she came across . She would completely obliterate anything, should it happen to be in her way… and she thought playing Crop Circles in the nearby fields was just way too much fun.  Besides, she didn’t feel bad. Old Widow May would come and apologize to the nice people, while Sweetie tried her best to look pitiful and appropriately sorry, as she cowered behind Ol’ May’s skirts.  Sweetie would SAY she was sorry, but she never really felt that bad.

…then one day, the local Trading Post got a shipment of fireworks!  Sweetie loved fireworks!  As the delivery man went inside to have his paper signed, Sweetie couldn’t help but sneak a peek…

Strawberry Solar Storm!  I hear these even smell like strawberries!, and without