INTRODUCTION
The following story is called “The Marble Club” and it is about a boy named Kid who is sort of uncoordinated when he is younger, although the bad part is that he develops a personality of shyness from his attribute. Kid’s future goal is to travel around the United States and join many of the Marble Tournaments, such as the National Marble Tournament, although there are others which he can find even though he is at a young age.
So far the only experience he has is playing marbles with his friends which have been a rollercoaster ride while fighting for the best looking marbles that he can find. Of course, everyone has their own taste when it comes to winning and playing for marbles and his favorite colors are particular even though many of the marbles are made of stone, agate and flint, although most marbles are made of glass.
Kid is also accustomed to using particular Shooter marbles, which he likes to call his Knocker Marble, in order to make the game more of a competition for him while even giving him the chance to win the favorite colors of his choice. Once in a while there is an argument or a fight that breaks out between them, although many of them end up in another marble game standoff which ends with a winner. Another fact that is that some of fights come about because many of the kids feel that they are at the best of their game while on the other hand he feels that he is the extreme greatest when it comes to playing games with his marbles.
Eventually Kid makes his first marble tournament where he doesn’t win nor lose all of his marbles, although he makes a few mistakes by being disqualifying a shot by throwing his shooter across the line of the circle. Another point is that Kid loses a good number of marbles, although he does gain a few in return during later shots. However his bag of marbles is completely replaced with new won specimens throughout the many games at the Marbles Tournament.
Now Kid has decided to make it big by trying to win as many games as possible. And he has done this by finding out about more marble tournaments around the valley which there are hardly any to begin with. And every one of the kids joke about making it in to the National Marble Tournament that is an invitational marble tournament, although they all realize they don’t have the money or what it takes to be that good. Nevertheless Kid still has some small tournaments with his friends around the neighborhood which is just as good. At first, things are slow because most of his friends have lost what they had such as him and they will have to slowly build their collections back up.
Soon while playing marbles with some friends, he runs in to a Marble Tournament Pro Chick named Marbles who is really much better than everyone else. Immediately while playing a marble game she starts to win off with a bunch of everyone’s favorite colored marbles. Eventually Kid starts to see how she plays and ends up being friends with her. After knowing each other for a moment she decides to come up with a plan of pretending they are enemies so that they can win off with everybody’s marbles.
One day Marbles invites Kid to a private backroom Marbles Tournament where everyone is playing not only for marbles, but for money as well. However they have to play according to the rules of the National Marbles Tournament, although there are some swindlers who try to bend the rules here and there. It isn’t long before Kid watches Marbles try and swindle teenagers and adolescent children of their lunch money and their marbles like she was a professional marble and high roller swindler.
Then after a few days of playing at some of Marbles friends marble tournaments in backrooms, someone tries to swindle everyone’s money with an electronic metal marble that can be driven and steered via remote control. Luckily one of the marbles players catches the swindling heist while everyone fights for their money back so that they all can focus on regrouping for some marbles tournaments that are coming to town.
They both join as a team in a Marbles Tournament Convention together to team up for first and second place. There is a single one on one marbles tournament and there is one game which consists of teams. Soon they both join as a team in a Marbles Tournament Convention together to team up for first and second place. There is a singles game at the marbles tournament and there is also one game which consists of teams.
The moral choice is that they both end up learning that hustling for marbles and money to get ahead isn’t everything and that sometimes you have to play with honesty. They both get the chance to use some of their trick shots that they practiced with their shooter marbles before when they were playing underground. In the end they both wind up winning a Marbles Tournament together.
PROLOGUE
The story called “The Marble Club” starts off with Kid playing marbles with some friends, although they all only have some spare marbles that they all scrounged up. Meanwhile Kid decides to tell them all that they should save their allowances in order to buy a couple bags of marbles at the local toy store.
His friends agree that that is a great idea and maybe on the weekend they all can pitch in to buy a few bags of marbles. However when the weekend arrives, they all seem to have saved enough on their own so that they all can have their own bag of marbles. Soon they start playing in a competitive way, although they don’t play for money or anything as far as any type of gambling is concerned.