The Adventures of TBUG & Sasquatch

By Floyd D Wray

A spoiled brat. A talking dog. Frigatebirds. Pirates. And Peaches. An adventure with everything.

A SMARTbook for young readers. A Robinson Caruso adventure that's fast, funny, and faith-based. One of the first titles to include an audiobook, embedded as QR-code. A perfect introduction to the art-craft of reading.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Motionbooks.com
• Release date: Jul 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9780578253473

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Adventures of TBU& Sasquatch

Floyd Wray

Motionbooks.com, LLC.

Copyright © 2022 Floyd Wray

All rights reserved

The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 9781234567890

ISBN-10: 1477123456

Cover design by: Art Painter

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018675309

Printed in the United States of America

To all my grands.

Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Start Here

TBUG Book Cover

Preface

1 Woof

2 Talking Dog

3 Crocodile

4 The Airplane

5 Peaches

6 Pigeons & Chickens

7 Karate Chop

8 Leaks

9 Fred's Grave

10 Dog Knees

11 Return of the Peaches

12 God Fixed My Mouth

13 Stewed Tomatoes

14 Scary Rope

15 Green Teeth

16 Friend or Foe

17 Ditching

18 Ghosts

19 Dog Noise

20 Eyepatches

21 Sneeze

22 Masks

23 Little Princess HaHa

24 Hidden Treasures

25 The Heart

26 Four-Leg Drive

27 Itami-san

28 Bite Lightly

29 Shots Fired

30 Think of A Crocodile

31 Please Help Us

32 T-Bug's Dream

33 Tickling My Bum

34 Not A Whiff

35 Eyepatches

36 Falling Apart

37 Hobgoblins

38 Don't Eat Me

39 Silly Dreams

40 He's A Rat-Dog

Appendices

{1} Amelia Earhart

{2} Hiroo Onoda

{3} Author's note

{4} Animated Ideogram

{5} How To Use

Start Here

https://vimeo.com/577792228

Tap the CAMERA icon to open the camera on your phone-tablet.

Aim the camera at the square QR-code block (above).

Click the permission screen that appears on the device screen. (Best practice: use widescreen orientation)

Set audio levels, pause, play, reverse, forward using the media-controller on your phone-tablet.

For trouble-shooting: https://vimeo.com/578212654

This product is sold as a traditional book consisting of printed text, and makes no warrant or guaranty regarding Internet connectivity or download speeds.

TBUG Book Cover

Preface

There are no maps for this kind of adventure. No lines on paper to be traced by a finger, no pathways to be traveled on foot. This trail starts with the unknown, but leads to the known. From the lost-you, to the found-you. How fortunate is the person that passes the trail in good company, whose heart is filled with peace. And peaches.

1 Woof

T-Bug opens her eyes. Is this a real beach or just a memory? It’s probably real. Her tongue is dragging in the sand and it tastes like real sand. Where’s daddy’s boat? She remembers a flash, then the boom that launched her over the rail. She even remembers splashing into the waves, but nothing after that.

​The girl drifts back to sleep. She doesn’t know it, she’s about to have company and soon there’ll be trouble.

​At the far end of the beach, a lone creature struggles in from the ocean. The animal reaches the shallows, ever-alert to danger, growling at nothing in particular, but cautiously scanning the beach for any villain that might be waiting there.

​There is something on the breeze. It leadsdirectly to the sleeping girl. As the animal makes his way, T-Bug is waking up, again. Spitting the sand from her lips, she says: I know that stink. I smell a Sasquatch.

The dog tells her that she is a bigger stink than he is.

​Sasquatch is a monstrous name, but the dog is small, a Jack Russell Terrier with delusions that he’s a German Shepherd.            

​T-Bug tells him, "You’re just one big woof. That’s all you are."

​Then she starts fading out again. "Woof woof woof."

Sasquatch growls at her for having such a bad attitude, but you do have to be patient. Most dogs know this. If a human wants to be rude, ignore them. If they want to sleep, let them. If you push the T-Bug too hard, she gets mean. Who needs that?

​So, since there’s not much else to be done at the moment, Sasquatch lies down beside her. The dog is also exhausted. And that’s how they spend the morning, side-by-side on a lost beach, on a lost island, somewhere in the lost Pacific, waiting for what happens next.

2 Talking Dog

After a couple of hours, the T-Bug’s eyes pop open. You spoke to me, she says. I’ve never heard you talk before.

​The dog, who’s still half-asleep, considers the point, then tells her that she talks too much. That’s why little missy never hears anyone else.

​T-Bug says, Hang on one second, you’ve never said a single word, your whole life.

​He tells her, That’s not true. I talk all the time.

​She tells him that he woofs at everything. "You woof at cats, you woof at the wind, you even woof at yourself!"

​Didn’t you hear me yelling when daddy’s boat exploded?

​She says, I heard someone caterwauling.

Sasquatch asks her not to say caterwauling to him, again. He wasn’t cat-anything. He was yelling, Save the puppy! Nothing was said about cats.

She’s totally mystified. Her dog is talking. But the dog is also surprised. After all these years, she claims that she hasn’t understood a word he’s said. Hethought she was just being rude.

T-Bug blurts out, I want daddy.

He tells her, "Sorry little missy, the boat exploded, and that’s the last time I smelled him. I didn’t see