surgicalsnack

wrote this a few weeks ago to help out a friend. it was supposed to be a short piece that explained something using vocabulary that young kids could understand. it was surprisingly fun to write.

the story of smoke

you may not know this, but smoke did not always rise. when fire was
first discovered, the smoke refused to rise. it wanted to stay close
to its mother. this made using fire for useful things very difficult,
because no one could see what they were doing. they needed to find a
way to make the smoke get out of the way.

one day, a very wise man had an idea. when the sun rose the next day,
he summoned fire from the wood, and she was glad to come, because it
was a beautiful day, and the sky was golden with the dawn. but the
smoke still stayed close.

"Do you see the sky?" asked the wise man, and the smoke looked. it
thought the sky was the most beautiful thing it had ever seen, and it
fell in love. it wanted nothing more than to be as close to it as
possible. but it loved its mother as much as it loved the sky, and
that is why one end of the smoke always stays with the fire while the
other end rises up to meet the sky.