Something Curious Book 3: Stratucopia: A Starry Tale

By Linda P. Jacob

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984588951

Linda P. Jacob

Linda P. Jacob’s writing experience over the years includes features on culture in international magazines; news and religion stories, theater and music reviews for the local paper. She has embarked on projects designed around literary expression in poetry and prose. She recently started working on expression in music and lyrics, a lively interest that sparks her creative endeavors. A California resident, she worked in research administration, management and finance jobs at a local daily newspaper and university. Now a zesty grandmother, Linda finds inspiration for her works in her family and her faith. She published 3 books: Something Curious, Book 1: Poetry (for children and the wisely curious) Something Curious, Book 2: Simply Awed (expressions in poems, vignettes and dreams) Something Curious, Book 3: Stratucopia (a starry tale) The books, in softcover and ebook, are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Hard cover is available on Xlibris Publishing. She authored a 3-part series on culture in the international magazine, World & I: series on folkdance, music and fiesta. Linda also is the author and owner of a public website: www.Babyboomerlola.com (blogs for all ages).

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Copyright © 2020 by Linda P. Jacob. 813833

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and

incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination

or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual

persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely

coincidental.

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ISBN: 978-1-9845-8896-8 (sc)

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ISBN: 978-1-9845-8895-1 (e)

Rev. date: 01/06/2021

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

■ My grandson, Eliott Nathaniel Jacob (10 years old at the time of this writing) -- my young pseudo editor – for his insights, suggestions, comments, valuable feedback that helped shape this story.

■ My children, John Stanley Jacob and J. Joy Jacob Rosenburg – for their loving encouragement, advice and wisdom.

I also thank the artist of the painting used for the front and back cover of this book: Eliott, who created the artwork just before his 7th birthday in July 2016. He titled his painting, The City.

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Something Curious

Book 1: Poetry

For children and the wisely curious

Book 2: Simply Awed

Expressions in poems, vignettes and dreams

Book 3: Stratucopia

A starry tale

Babyboomerlola.Com

https:/www.babyboomerlola.com

(a public blog site – stories for all ages:

entertaining, informative, nostalgic, reflective)

Linda P. Jacob – Author and Owner

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PROLOGUE

A land not so far away, floating atop a heavy mass of white billowy clouds, enjoying the same blue ceiling of a sky as the earth below, is Sratucopia. Stratucopia is as real and vibrant as the cosmic earth, as lovely as the forest and rivers of the Amazon. It can be as peaceful as the pastures of Montana, or as turbulent as the erupting volcanic craters of Hawaii. Stratucopia sits solidly on thick billows of clouds. It is just there, gliding above and holding lives of inhabitants unperturbed by earth’s current events, because it, too, has its own current events. It has no connection to the earth below. But its residents are like earth’s people, with the same looks, same needs, embroiled in life’s daily demands, drawn by the same magnetism for relationships and lo, strapped by the same rules for survival.

The difference is, in Stratucopia, it is general knowledge that all are children of the stars. Yet, no one knows how they were born, or how they came to be a child, or how it is to become older than 100, or what becomes of them after 100. Very strange to us earthlings, but what is stranger still is that all in Stratucopia think that isn’t strange at all. That’s just how things are, and that’s the way they should be in Stratucopia, where one big village is walled in from the rest of the land. In fact, from the rest of their world.

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INTRODUCTION

Marna, Phoebe and Marcus are good friends. But more than that, they feel they are siblings of one family. Everyone suspects they can’t be. Marna has hair as red as the shimmer of Mars. Phoebe’s hair is black as the moonless and starless nights of Stratucopia, which are rare and far in between. Marcus’ hair is as brown as the desert sand of the land. But these three youths hold on to their privately held belief of where they came from. They nurture a special bond, and to them, that is enough. Though they do not speak of their origin, they believe that their father and mother are the same steadfast pair who keep constant watch, not in Stratucopia, but up floating in the sky, lending brilliance along with other stars in the universe. These youngsters fondly call them Mama Star and Papa Star. Often, the two stars send