Hi folks,
Way back in 2015, when I was living and working in Mongolia, I was inspired to write a fictional book about a Mongolian kid living in small-town rural Mongolia, as I was doing at the time. The boy's name was Bold, a character, in part, influenced by my son and his world around him. This is Chapter 1 from the book.
Bold and The Magic Stove Chapter 1
The Beginning
It was yet another dusty day in the Gobi desert. There was nothing much to see outside here apart from endless rocks and stones and the occasional pile of sand. It was a dry, dusty empty place with few people. In winter it was freezing and in summer it was very, very hot. Little Bold loved it but at the age of 3, he had not seen anything else. He did not know what a tree or a forest was. Or a farm. Or a river. Or even a city. All he knew was this desert. This was little Bold’s world. His parents and his older sister Sara knew this. As soon as the yurt door was opened, including at dawn, he would charge towards the outside world –even if it was bitterly cold or scorching hot outside. Everyone who met Bold, even at this young age, saw he had so much energy for such a young child, so much curiosity in the world around him. They knew life would have a lot to offer Bold in the future.
The old man sat in front of his stove drinking milk tea, like he had always done. He looked at the stove, which was a normal Mongolian stove. It was just like any other stove that people had in their yurts. It was square with a grill at the front, a round removable plate on top and a chimney going up through centre of the yurt. There was, however, one unusual thing about the stove – it had a small circular blue light on the front. Slightly raised up from the metal, it was possible to press it in and out like a button but nothing seemed to happen. Sometimes the light was on, sometimes it was off. Nobody really knew how it worked. All the old man knew was that the stove had changed his live forever. From the day he received it and took it home all those years ago, his live would become one long chain of adventures, all linked together by one thing. The old stove. The magical stove. He looked at it again and smiled. Maybe the stove was looking back, he thought to himself.
The old man often wondered about the future. When he died what would happen to the stove? Which one of his children would have it, or would even want it? He slowly rose from his bed and poured more tea. The door opened and some people came in. An older girl quietly entered the yurt, but leading the way was a young boy, about 3 years old. He was quick. He ran over to the old man and launched himself into his arms. That was young Bold and the old man his uncle. His strange old uncle with all his tales that nobody ever believed. Weird and wonderful things that were obviously impossible; goats made of sand and fake mirages full of sweet fermented horse milk. Orange groves sprouting from horse dung. Bold liked the old man and he liked going to his yurt. But he particularly liked his stove – the special one that had that little blue light at the front which nobody was allowed to press. However, being a 3-year-old boy wanting to discover the world around him, he went ahead and pressed it anyway. In fact, he would do it every time he visited his uncle. Bold had no other memories of his uncle, his yurt or the stove after that.
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