Bluemont

Bluemont

A Story by BlueShadow

Rodrick Bluelake was a forty year old man who lived at 1000 Westcrest Drive, in Bluemont, Indiana. Rodrick grew up on a farm as a young boy and loved to see the sun, sky, and clouds come and go each day as they always did. The farm he grew up on was owned by his dad and there he grew corn, potatoes, carrots, radish, and many other crops. Rodrick and his dad were close and loved playing hide and go seek, checkers, and figurines with each other. His dad was very kind to him and made Rodrick feel like he was worth something. His dad was understanding, loving, and had a generous heart. Rodrick loved to learn from his dad the basics of farming such as planting, watering, and watching the crops grow. Rodrick as a young child loved to learn all about the farm and the different animals that lived there. Some of the animals were pigs, others were cows, and many were chickens. Rodrick loved his dad’s farm and was extremely grateful to have a meal every breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Rodrick was a kind and loving person and loved to make others happy by going to nearby farms and playing with other children. Rodrick was compassionate, loving, and honest, things that made him very popular among everyone in Bluemont. Rodrick was a very intuitive person, and loved making model airplanes, rockets, and buses. He loved model airplanes because of how big and majestic they were when they flew, and loved rockets because of how high they soared. He liked buses a lot because of the many people who rode them. Rodrick loved to feed the pigs corn and the chickens chicken feed. He loved being on his dad’s farm because of how amazing and lovely it was. 

Rodrick went into Bluemont Elementary School when suddenly he kept on feeling a pain in his head. The pain wouldn’t go away so Rodrick had to go to the hospital and get a scan. The scan came out and said that Rodrick’s skull x-ray looked fine. However, Rodrick wasn’t sure if that was the correct conclusion so he went to the hospital again two months later and realized that his worst fears were true. There was a tumor in his brain that was about the same size as a baseball and was making Rodrick have many health problems like headaches and dizziness. Rodrick went to Bluemont Hospital over and over again to have his head checked out and to make the pain less painful. Rodrick knew that he would have to make his head feel better by making the pain in his skull lessen. So, he played with toys, talked with his dad, and rode the tractor to keep his mind calm. Eventually, after a year of struggle and pain, Rodrick realized that his brain tumor was ready for surgery. Rodrick went to the surgeon, was placed under anesthesia, and underwent a surgery that made his head feel a lot better because there was no longer a tumor. Rodrick loved his life much more now and had so much more fun at Bluemont Elementary. Rodrick played with his friends much more often and felt so much better about his life because his health was in much better shape. People were much less judgmental about him now and treated him like equals. Rodrick thought the surgery improved the quality of his life much more and made school fun and happy. He was so pleased with the surgeons’ work. 

Rodrick at forty three still lived in Bluemont, Indiana and was very fond of nice things. He got a Persian rug for one hundred dollars which covered his floor very well and also got some fine china for dinner that would last a long time and was extremely ornate. Rodrick loved to sled in the snow and ice and loved the feeling of cold weather freezing you to near death and the exhilarating feelings it gave a person. Rodrick was amazingly happy to sled and ski and loved both activities because he was strong, athletic, and well built. Rodrick was a smart person who loved making other people happy and could make anyone or anything smile. He was good at telling jokes and decided to become stand up comedian to make people smile and feel good for a while. Rodrick went to the club house each night and began his routine of jokes, to which the audience would laugh and would be amazed by how everyone was enthusiastically appreciative of his efforts to appear calm and collected while being humorous. Rodrick was very good at being a comedian and loved making other people crack up. Rodrick was very good at making people feel happy, loved, and funny. They loved watching him as a comedian tell jokes to others.

Rodrick began working at a business management place where he could manage people’s hedge funds and portfolios. Rodrick wasn’t very good at math, and half of the time he often wondered what on Earth he was doing managing people’s money. He wasn’t sure so he just kept on doing what the boss told him to do and was good at operating computer word processors and number management spreadsheets. Rodrick was very good at computers and knew how to operate and manage one well. He was very good at working with computer applications which may have helped others understand why even though he was bad at math he was still really good at doing his job.

Rodrick went to his home and loved going into his bedroom. His bedroom had a bed, sink, bathroom, wardrobe, bookshelf, rug, and desk. It was his place of solitude and happiness where he got to feel right at home and make himself feel extremely comfortable about his daily activities and routine. He loved the purple cover on his mattress and the white sink where he washed his hands and cleaned the dirt from his fingers. Rodrick was an extremely organized person and loved making his bedroom super clean and super dandy. His bathroom was nice with a large tub and clean toilet; his bookshelves were filled with books about history; his rug was pretty and was nice to look at; his wardrobe was extremely pleasant with lots to see, feel, and do; he was the definition of a happy and blessed person. 

Rodrick lived at 1789 Orange Road, Bluemont, Indiana, and loved his home because of its design, beauty, and comfort. Whenever a storm appeared and Rodrick felt extremely bored, he always reminded himself to be thankful that he was living under a roof with his dish collection, artworks, and television. Rodrick loved his bungalow at Orange Road and enjoyed the comfort and simplicity that his home life entailed. He loved being at home because of how comfortable and sturdy his house was. Rodrick was extremely blessed to live in such a place of happiness and ease. Rodrick loved his living room, dining room, kitchen, and basement. He loved his house’s front yard and how well kept it was and how green the grass was there. Rodrick loved his home and thought that it was one of the most comfortable places anyone could be in.

In the living room, there was a comfortable and plush red sofa that made it super amazing to live in and wonderful to be in. Rodrick loved living at home because of how amazing and awesome his sofa was. It was ten feet long and was very comfortable to lay in or sleep in. Rodrick was always positive and upbeat and kept a positive attitude towards everything. He loved living on his sofa watching the television, sleeping, or eating potato chips. Rodrick’s living room was comfortable and cozy beyond measure. He loved his home’s sensibility.

The dining room was also extremely beautiful and well decorated with paintings of fruit, flowers, and the sun, and it having a large dining table with lots of cool things inscribed into the wood of the table The dining table was very well made with lots of cool things to see on the table and lots of interesting engravings. Rodrick loved his dining room because of the great food he made and ate there and the wonderful paintings that lined the walls of the dining room. Rodrick loved his dining room because it was comfortable, useful, and beautiful. He was always impressed by his house’s comfort and solitude. The dining room was extremely fitting for such a wonderful house. 

Rodrick also loved the kitchen because of the dishes he had there, the dishwasher, and the sink and oven, all of which made his life more easy and more satisfying. Rodrick loved his kitchen because he made spaghetti, hamburgers, lasagna, and chicken noodle soup there. Rodrick thought his life was so amazing because of how sturdy and lovely his house was. His home was extremely comfortable and pleasant to be in. Rodrick made sure that his house was beautiful, fragrant, and inviting. The living room, dining room, and kitchen made Rodrick’s home so welcoming. He often invited guests to stay at his home and was very knowledgeable about who could make a house party fun and relaxing. Rodrick love making his home beautiful and interesting to be in. He loved his home’s beautiful front lawn with its roses and daisies and extremely well made driveway that led to the garage. The garage let him park his car and shielded his car from lightning, water, and snow. Rodrick thought his home was so beautiful and so awesome to live in. He felt blessed beyond expectation.

Rodrick’s backyard was a large area of grass that had a small little garden with azaleas and ferns. His backyard was extremely beautiful and tranquil because it was a large area of quiet and solitude. Rodrick was well known for being into greenery and made his backyard full of the best and most high quality grass possible. Rodrick loved to read a book in his backyard or stroll through the garden because it was extremely intriguing and interesting to him for him to be able to inhale the greenery’s leaves and fragrant scents. Rodrick was very understanding of the many kinds of plants, flowers, and grasses that you could plant in a backyard to make it soothing and beautiful. Rodrick was very attentive to his backyard and made it so that it was soothing yet sophisticated at the same time. 

Rodrick also had a swimming pool which made Rodrick happy because it was a rectangular swimming pool about six feet deep on one end and ten feet deep on the other. It was full of chlorinated water which killed germs and made the swimming pool comfortable, relaxing, and interesting to live in. It was an extremely comfortable swimming pool and Rodrick often swam in it to make himself skinnier, happier, and healthier. The pool’s water made him feel so refreshed and happy because of how sparkling and clean the water was. Rodrick was very cognizant of his swimming pool and made sure it was clean, blue as the sea, and sparkling. Rodrick loved his swimming pool because of how useful and easy to use it was. His home was much better with it.

All in all, Rodrick loved his swimming pool because of how beautiful, clean, and interesting it looked. His home was so wonderful and comfortable to be in because of how amazing the pool and the garden was. The interior of Rodrick’s home was beautiful, organized, and comfortable which made Rodrick feel good after a day’s worth of activities. Rodrick loved his home because his home was exceptionally clean and relaxing. He loved making food in the modern kitchen, eating in the artistic dining room, and reading or sleeping on the couch in the living room. Rodrick loved his home because of the solitude and tranquil nature of his home. He loved living at home because of how everything was in the right location. Rodrick loved his home because of the paintings he had all over his house like the painting of fruits and vegetables in his bedroom. Rodrick’s home was amazingly decorated and beautifully made. Guests were often surprised at how tidy and amazing his home was. Rodrick made sure that people who went to his house felt comfortable and taken care of. Inviting people over was half the fun of owning such a plush house. 

James Fortson and Emily Globson were two of Rodrick’s best friends. He found them to be incredibly kind, loving, and interesting people that made bitter day sweet and a sad day happy. James Fortson was a very loving person who made Rodrick feel like he was a worthwhile person. James loved to play golf, bowl, and play basketball with Rodrick. James Fortson was a very understanding, patient, and considerate man who made life much better when he was with Rodrick because Rodrick loved James carefree and relaxed attitude towards life. 

During golf, James would play with Rodrick and the two of them felt so good when they played together because of James’s patient nature. Golf was an extremely difficult sport so James would instruct Rodrick on how to play and how to make the best putts. James and Rodrick loved to play golf together. James also bowled with Rodrick and made Rodrick feel like a sports champion because they had fun at the bowling alley and ate fries and chicken while bowling. Rodrick was so grateful to have such a patient, kind, and loving friend like James. He was so happy that he was his friend.

James and Rodrick were good friends, but sometimes Rodrick needed alone time. For this, he went into his city’s gaming arcade where he could play fake car racing and water guns and frisbee. He loved to go to the arcade and have lots of fun to enjoy himself and make himself feel happy and content. Rodrick was a good and smart person who knew the ins and outs of the arcade and enjoyed playing slots and ping pong there. Rodrick was a happy and fun loving person who enjoyed his life immensely. His motto on life was that one should have as much fun as one needs to. Rodrick loved playing at the arcade and losing himself in the sheer madness of it all. Rodrick loved being able to play arcade games and he thought that spending twenty dollars of your money was perfectly okay if you were going to have a blast playing fun games and losing your stress to play pinball. He loved the arcade and what it had to offer.

Rodrick sometimes went to the gaming room in his house to play Legend Of Darinth, a game involving lots of killings of monsters, drinking strength potions, and learning about mythology and herbs. Rodrick loved being able to play and play and play until he couldn’t handle himself. Rodrick loved to play games because it made his mind stronger, his body more relaxed, and his overall status more easygoing. Rodrick loved to play video games because of how fun they were and how bright and colorful the graphics were. The video games were extremely fun to play, and Rodrick loved their inventive style and interesting plots. The gaming room was a place he went to in order to have lots of fun and feel much better about himself. Rodrick loved to make himself feel better by going to the gaming room and pretending to be a conqueror of a foreign land. He loved games and their casual nature and way of making a stressful day happy and enjoyable. 

Emily Globson was one of Rodrick’s classmates at his elementary school and was close friend of his. Rodrick was very kind to Emily and in return they often talked about politics, the weather, and the state of conditions in the city they lived in. Emily Globson was a thirty five year old woman who liked to knit, crochet, and make clothes out of multicolored yarn. Emily Globson was a very understanding and amazing person and loved to hangout with Rodrick because of how kind Rodrick was and the chocolate and candy he often gave her out of happiness. Rodrick was really understanding of Emily Globson’s worries, like mortgage payments, gardening misfortunes, and money. Emily often told that she was always worried about money and how difficult it was to make money at a good rate. Emily complained about her garden not bearing fruit fast enough and about her house having cockroaches and other bugs. Rodrick listened intently and just told Emily that she would have to bear it and move on with life. Rodrick explained to Emily that life was like a roller coaster, with ups and downs and many difficulties along the way. Rodrick made Emily feel very good about herself and Emily gave Rodrick money and food so that Rodrick wouldn’t have to worry so much about it. 

Rodrick often went to the Botanical Gardens where he would see ferns, trees, flowers, and mosses growing beautifully and evoking a world of green to his eyes. He often went there and inhaled the beautiful and amazing scents that the Botanical Gardens gave off and made everyone who visited it feel amazing. Rodrick loved making people feel happy and often gave the staff there donuts so that they would feel better about working such a low paying job. Rodrick made it seem like getting food and getting money was an easy thing to do. Rodrick was very patient and very careful so getting money wasn’t a difficult thing to do for him.

Rodrick loved to play lottery cards at gas stations and often went with his friends to see who was the luckiest. He would often buy twenty dollar scratch cards  and scratch them like crazy until he found a winning number. One time, he won a thousand dollars which made him even more addicted to lottery cards. He loved lotto cards for the simple and enjoyable entertainment that made them so fun, amazing, and wonderful. Rodrick loved playing lottery because of how fun, intriguing, and awesome playing lottery was. He loved testing his luck and seeing how much money if any he’d win when playing. Rodrick loved the lottery and was amazed by its simplicity and rewards. Rodrick loved gas station lottery tickets because of their extraordinary fun and rewards. His friend Emily also got hooked because of Rodrick. 

When Rodrick became sixty years old, he decided to become a cashier at Naturalia, Bluemont’s own organic food store. Naturalia was very clean, organized, and had many different things to buy, such as soaps, food, clothes, and bread. Naturalia was an amazing place to work for because the pay was about fifteen dollars per hour as a cashier and discounts if you shopped there. Rodrick was very happy about working at such a wonderfully beautiful and good store and loved going to work. He was often greeted by a worker there and went to his cashier station to handle money. Sometimes, men and women would give him money like hundred dollar bills and Rodrick would have to change the bills into smaller ones, like tens and ones. Rodrick was a very smart and hardworking cashier. Naturalia had many different aisles of food, water, clothes, soaps, and breads. It was a wonderful store if you wanted to buy something expensive, organic, and fresh. Naturalia was a huge store that was lit by huge overhead lights that gave the store’s appearance a shiny look. Naturalia was an amazing store for the stuff it had. Rodrick loved working there. 

Rodrick sometimes went to the bowling alley where he would wear his bowling shoes and strike one out when he played. He loved the bowling alley because of its wonderful and beautiful nature and loved to bowl with friends. In addition, there were nachos and fries to eat. It was a great way to end a day at Naturalia. Rodrick loved the bowling alley and how beautiful and fun it was to bowl there. Rodrick enjoyed bowling because he loved the feeling of winning a game or even the feeling of hearing the pins get struck down. Rodrick loved to bowl and thought it was a good hobby after working at Naturalia. It was a wonderful thing to do for him.

Rodrick loved working at Naturalia when there was an incident. A woman refused to pay the correct amount of cash at his cashier register which made Rodrick furious at the woman and eventually he shouted at her and swore. This let to Rodrick’s firing as a cashier and made Rodrick very sad and disheartened by the loss of his job. This meant he had to go to his home on Orange Road and sulk on the sofa because he had lost his job. He got his guitar and started playing a song on it to make the time go by and to improve his mood. Within a few months, he thought, he would find another job. Rodrick felt extremely sad about his job loss and decided that it was time to search for a new job. He just wasn’t sure when or where he’d get one. Rodrick went to his bedroom and slept soundly and felt so good about his life. Rodrick thought there were people less fortunate than him, and he was just glad to have a roof over his head and feel good about himself.

Rodrick eventually found another job at Sofa Emporium, a place in Bluemont, Indiana that sold sofas and recliners for discount prices. Sofa Emporium was a huge store that sold sofas in blue, green, orange, red, and yellow, as well as recliners in many different colors, too. Sofa Emporium was a good place to work for Rodrick because Rodrick was in need of money for his retirement and he was short thousands of dollars. Rodrick worked and worked and worked and he finally got enough money to retire. He left Sofa Emporium with a smile and went home to his house on Orange Road to sit back and watch some television.

He unraveled on the couch and felt good about his work at Sofa Emporium. He felt good about his time just working and feeling good about providing others with furniture. It was now time for television time. Rodrick watched the news for an hour and watched a documentary featuring Bluemont’s most notorious murderers and Bluemont’s most notorious thieves. Bluemont was a somewhat large sanctuary for criminals because of the populace’s kind personality, humble temperament, and soothing attitude. Bluemont was well known for a country atmosphere as well as criminals because of how nice everyone was there.

Rodrick went to his bathroom and looked at the mirror and at his face. He could see his reflection and saw that he was as good looking as usual and felt as good as usual, too. Rodrick loved how good he looked in the mirror and decided to take a shower in the bathroom and make it comfortable and enjoyable. He went into the shower section and turned on the shower and felt the hot water clean his body. He never felt so good or so wonderful in his lifetime and felt amazing because of how clean he felt after the shower. He dried himself with a bright yellow towel and felt so good about the shower. His shower and cleaning was very comforting and made his day a whole lot better.

He went to his bedroom and read A History Of Magic which was a book about Bluemont’s history of folklore and magical tales. The book centered around Bluemont’s interesting and intricate history regarding how Bluemont often was noted for its amazing mythological nature and history of tales. Bluemont was noted for agriculture, but also had a deep and beautiful history of passing down stories about ghosts, goblins, dragons, and mermaids. Bluemont was exceptional for its long and ancient past of monsters and stories about such creatures. Rodrick read the book for three hours straight and fell asleep quickly. He was in bed with his bedcovers and fell into a deep rest for a long time. Rodrick dreamt of dragons, spells, and magic because of what he had read before he slept. Rodrick was fast asleep and dreaming of lots of things. He couldn’t wait for tomorrow, and see what it had in store for him and his life. Rodrick was excited about his music concert at Bluemont Arts Center. It was going to be fun and exciting.

Rodrick went to the music concert and was stunned by the orchestra’s beautiful harmonization and wonderful melodies. He was amazed by the string section’s beautiful tone and the brass section’s amazing brightness. He loved the orchestra’s beautiful timbre and amazing voice and was glad he spent the money on a beautiful and amazing orchestra concert that left him speechless. Rodrick was amazed by the orchestra’s wonderful melodies perfect intonation. He loved the orchestra and planned on going to more concerts. 

Rodrick loved Bluemont for its clean soils, beautiful skies, and amazing air quality and valued its peacefulness and tranquility. Rodrick loved Bluemont’s fresh waters, botanical park, and fun things to do. He planned to live in Bluemont for a long time until he died. He felt very fortunate.

© 2021 BlueShadow


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BlueShadow
BlueShadow

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Hello! I am a Korean-American man who wrote BlueShadow because I love the English language's look, sound, and feel. I loved writing BlueShadow because I love writing in general. In BlueShado.. more..