Friday, July 12, 2013

Freckla’s Flight to planet Mars, in search of a giant Tomato

               I understand that change can be very frustrating, and particularly moving from one place to another. I myself have moved from my home country Armenia to Japan, then to USA, and than from one state to another. I had dear friends move away from me. 

         As heart breaking as that can be, it doesn't come close to what Freckla is going through in my story "Freckla’s Flight to planet Mars, in search of a giant Tomato." How would you like to move to another planet while grieving the loss of your dearest friend?

      A nine year old Freckla lost his best friend, Yelena. Yelena has just passed away from a fever merely two weeks ago. He first met Yelena in the kindergarten when he forgot his lunch and she offered him her tomato. They had tomatoes for breakfast, lunch, and snacks.

        Tomatoes were Yelena's favorite munchies, and she was Freckla's favorite friend. Freckla's always fondly remembered how Yelena and him used to snuggle in one of those giant dandelions and snacked on tomatoes.

  With her gone, tomatoes were all he has left of her. So when his family was  moving to another planet called Roxa where tomatoes can't grow, he refused to go. He decided to run away to planet Mars mistaking it for a giant tomato. Freckla thought that he could find her on that giant tomato. But when Freckla and his brother landed on Mars, they saw that Mars is not a giant tomato. Mars turned out to be just a red planet.

      Freckla learned something from his trip to Mars and found a solution to his problem and did move to another planet with his family.  He would still be able to grow tomatoes on that dreaded planet Roxa, and preserve memories of Yelena. Freckla's family and other passengers blast off toward Planet Roxa on a Star ship. 



      By the end of the story I add a little mystery, when Freckla woke up and saw a giant tomato floating in space just outside of his window. Nobody knew the tomatoes origins. 

        Except there were letters written on the side of this giant tomato "KAVOT"