The Logging Town, an Excerpt

I'm going to post excerpts from my latest book concerning the Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat. If anybody finds them interesting let me know. In any case, have a good day. The book involves the family's visit to the small logging town that Dan, the father, works in.


The bear reared up on its hind legs and growled at them. Curtis told Connie not to move. The bear would chase them if they ran. It continued to stand on his hind legs and roared once in awhile. Connie and Curtis stood where they were and watched the bear. The bear stood and watched them. They didn’t know what to do.
“Connie, hand me the string of fish. Do it slowly,” Curtis whispered.
“Here,” Connie said as she placed the string in Curtis’s left hand that he had stretched back to her. When he got the string of fish, he slowly pulled it up to where he could hold the string just a little ways above the fish with his right hand.
“If this works we’re going to turn around and climb up on top of one of these big rocks. Be ready when I say go,” Curtis said.
Curtis, without making too quick of a motion, flung the fish at the bear. The bear caught them in his mouth. At the very same moment, that the bear caught the fish in his mouth, Cosmic Cat leapt off a tall rock beside the bear and landed on the bear’s head. Before Curtis and Connie could successfully get out of the way, the bear let out a tremendous muffled roar, lowered his front paws to the ground and ran forward over Curtis and Connie with Cosmic Cat still on his head.
“Connie, are you hurt?” Curtis asked her.
“I don’t think so, at least not very much. I don’t seem to have any broken bones and I don’t think I’m bleeding. What about you?”
“I’m not sure. I have to look and see.”
They took turns looking at each other but could only find scrapes and abrasions with what may turn into some big bruises later. It was difficult to tell as they had cuts, abrasions and bruises on top of their old cuts, abrasions and bruises. As they were finishing their examinations, Cosmic Cat showed up. He was dragging the string of fish behind him. Members of his pride caught the fish and he wasn’t going to let the bear keep them if he could help it. He was a proud cat as he dragged the fish up to Curtis and Connie. He had saved the fish and provided food for his pride. He had done good.