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The Imaginary
Featured on my 2014 favourites list!‘What is this?’ she said, her back to the wardrobe.
‘Oh,’ said Amanda. ‘That’s my coat.’
‘And what’s it doing in there?’
‘Hanging up?’ Amanda suggested cautiously.
‘But, darling,’ her mum said in a quieter voice. ‘It’s all wet. Look, it’s dripping. Hang it up downstairs by the radiator. I’ve told you before, don’t just stick it in the cupboard. It’ll get mouldy. When are you ever going to learn?’
‘On Monday at school,’ Amanda said.
Meet Amanda Shuffleup.
She’s funny, imaginative, and has a best friend named Rudger.
Rudger’s not real, but nobody’s perfect.
He stood up. He could do this. What would Amanda have done if she’d been in his shoes? Probably complained her shoes were too big, but after she’d’ve gone through the door and faced whatever was on the other side
They’re the best of friends, and they do everything together; travel to other planets, journey through the jungle, make their way twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
But then Mr Bunting knocks on the door of the Shuffleup house, and catches a whiff of imagination.
Once he catches that smell, he keeps turning up everywhere Rudger goes.
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