Roloc (a modern fairytale)

A mythical journey, a little girl hero, and valiant deeds fill this book. Behind a great gray wall, in a time and place far from what we believe to be true, a little gray girl lived in a small gray village. The little gray girl's name was Roloc. During this era, every day was gray. In fact, every year was a gray year and the truth is, no one remembered a time when it was different. That is, until Roloc leaned out of her window and breathed the clean, warm morning. "This is too fine a day for mundane work," she proclaimed. "A day like today calls for a quest. I shall find the long-lost treasure and return it to my village." She grabbed an old treasure mad, filled her rucksack full of ripe gray apples, and left the great-walled village through its one gray gate. It was a short merry stroll until Roloc took one step inside the deep woods. Her next step was a bit more tentative. "Oh, my sakes, it's dark in here. I can't even see the gate keeper any more." Off to her right she heard a rumbly, grumbly, ghostly, growly noise. Straight up into the air she sprang and scratched her hand on a thorny bush on the way back down. "Darn, that hurts," she whined. "I guess this journey brings pain a well a treasure."Children of all ages (8-88) will enjoy this lighthearted fairytale that changes the world.