Mike and the Hurricane
written and illustrated by
Jack DullaghanW
hen Mike was a baby and he was floating around in the ocean in his baby carriage, the sky looked terribly dingy green. The lightning flashed all around him. Leaves were blowing around in the wind so fast, and then he was like, "Tornado!" And he was right. It was a tornado called a hurricane.Then a giant wave leaned over him and washed him backwards. And then he was drifting towards the hurricane. Then the hurricane tossed him up into the air, and he forgot he was inside the hurricane. And he was right; he was inside the tornado. Then he ripped out of the hurricane and circled around like a ball and when things, all the living creatures, got sucked up by the hurricane, too.
Now the first living creature that got sucked up by the hurricane was a fish. The second living creature was another tornado. The third living creature was a train engine. That train engine was a steam engine. It was the Atlanta Hurricane Express. Those big, black steam engines try to avoid the tornado. This one tried to avoid the tornado, but the tornado went faster and sucked the whole train up. The fourth living creature was just a hero with a helmet and a cape, and when the hero flew out of the tornado with its super powers, the fifth living creature was a cow. And then the baby looked down and saw the ground, and it scared him. He was still sucked up by the tornado. The tornado did not disappear yet.
And then he went, "We lost everybody except the cyclone!" And then he was lonely.
But finally he saw another living creature that got sucked up by the tornado. It was a bicycle rider. He was wearing a helmet. And then the tornado got bigger and bigger and bigger, and then the bicycle rider flew away.
And then the baby carriage went higher and higher and higher and higher and higher and higher. And then he was that high. The tornado dropped him somewhere else. He flew out of the tornado, flipping up and down, up and down, up and down. Then it was too windy at the Atlantic Baby Shop. The baby carriage dropped into the bottom row of babies.
Finally, too many leaves were blowing around in the wind, and then the tornado disappeared. No more leaves were blowing around in the wind, no more green skies, no more giant waves, and no more getting sucked up by the hurricane. The tornado was finally gone and the lightning died while melting into the ground.
When the baby window was shoved down, they told all the families to pick a baby. Mike's family picked out baby Mike, and then they took him home.
It took him fifty birthdays to grow up as an old man. He put on his glasses. When he doesn't have any glasses, everything will be a little bit of blur. His birthday was every month and number.
The End