Chasing Orion by Lasky Kathryn

Author:Lasky, Kathryn [Lasky, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

It was the morning after THE DATE. I was in my room working on the diorama. The first level was almost complete. This was the undersea part, and if I do say so myself, it was beautiful. I had ripped out the old green-and-blue clay and put in this clear gel stuff that came in two colors, aquamarine and turquoise, that I found at a craft store. My mom had found me a teeny-weeny pink rubber baby that was used for decorating packages for baby showers. This was Baby O., as I called him, son of Poseidon, the sea god, and Euryale, the daughter of the king of Crete. I had whole boxes of miniature figurines that I had either made or found in the dollhouse sections of toy stores. So his childhood and youth took up one half of the bottom level of the diorama. I was planning on mounting the entire thing on a lazy Susan, one of those spinning trays for serving food. My mom had one and said I could use it. But Dad had cut me a bigger platform to put on the spinning base so I would have more room to develop the story. You turned the tray to see the scenes in his life, and this first level was his subterranean life, which would transition to a slightly higher level, that of his terrestrial life. The third level would be the stars. But he doesn’t get there until he dies. I had the three levels all worked out. It was a kind of spiral from sea to sky.

Due to Orion’s marine heritage, he had this knack of being able to walk on waves. He would do this to get to land, where he became the mighty hunter, followed by a big dog and a little dog, or, as they are known in astronomy, Canis Major and Canis Minor. I was right now building the waves that were really steps to land when the phone rang.

“It’s for you, Georgie. It’s Phyllis!” Mom shouted.

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