Finding Purpose/The Gold Tiara/The Blog Story

Nimene searches for a new purpose. Featuring two new stories: “The Gold Tiara,” an epic fantasy tale about two kids who save the world from a dark power, written by Sydney, an 11-year-old from Delaware, and “The Blog Story,” about a high-pressure newsroom looking for their next big scoop, written by a 10-year-old from New Jersey named Mackenzie.

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

Illustration by Camila Franklin

Original Stories

The Gold Tiara

by Sydney, age 11, Delaware

Once in the land of Filecity as the words of Ambrose the evil warlock said the Crutoke spell the golden tiara, that kept the entire land intact, shattered into 5 pieces she used her staff and scattered them all across the lands. One flew into the depths of the enchanted lake, one in the cave of the dragon, one into the eye of the cyclops, one into the wand of the town wizard, and one in the gem on the end of Ambose's staff. Across town Colette And Nathaniel are born. They don't know it yet but at that moment their destiny has been set. They must save the land of Felecity from its horrible fate. As Colette and Nathaniel grow they come to fully understand their purpose. Ambrose is aware of this. She knows that if Colette and Nathaniel obtain the pieces of the tiara she will be ruined. Colette and Nathaniel's parents have disappeared Ambrose is the culpret. Hiding in the shadows she plots her revenge. Colette and Nathaniel must collect the pieces, So placing monsters at the locations is the smartest thing to do to keep them from getting to them. Little by little Colette and Nathaniel battle and defeat the monsters while making friends as well as enimies along the way. once they collected all five pieces. They must do four more things: Find their parents, ride on the back of the knight's steed, collect an enchanted egg from the tree of power, and use it to do the fourth task: defeat Ambrose and put her rein to an end.Once and for all. THE END

Our adaptation of “The Gold Tiara” was written by Megan and Marcus Bagala, produced by Brendan O’Grady and associate produced by Marcus Bagala with vocal arrangements by Megan Begala and vocal direction by Jack Mitchell

The Blog Story

by Mackenzie, age 10, New Jersey

"Annie, do you have any more gossip to put in the newspaper?” Said Tommy, leaning back in his chair and looking around for papers. “No, I have nothing. New York is so boring right now. Nothing is happening.” “Annie we have to put something up.” “I know Tommy but I have literally nothing and I did tell the news crew to send me something if anything is happening so we can put it on our blog.” “Ok so we will get news to put on but it might not be for about 2 days,” “Ok well I will tell the crew to try to tell us sooner.” “Ok good cause fans are getting very unhappy.” Tommy decided to take a break and get a bite to eat. So he went to the sandwich house across the street, but when he was on line, one of the sandwiches came alive and it started distroying and trashing the place! But Tommy got away just in time because a bag of chips was just about to be thrown at him. Tommy ran to his office and told Annie but a minnie sandwich followed Tommy into the office and almost ate a computer and a toilet seat, but Annie and Tommy trapped him in the bathroom and one of Annie and Tommy business partners had to go to the bathroom and they did not realise it was their so it got stuck I the toilet and it got flushed. But Tommy and Annie did not realise it happened so they went back to work.“Hey Tommy, are we going to include that me and you almost got are office eaten by a sandwich in the blog?” “Yes, because fans can tell their friends to read our blog and they are going to love it and then start reading our blog.” Said Tommy running out of breath. “You are right I will get on that right now and do you have any pictures of the baby sandwich?” “ Yes I do, I will send them to you in a minute, let me just find them.” “Ok see you later,” said Annie“Ok Tommy I am all done with, Tommy what are you doing?” “ I am trying to sleep but you have to do the blog” “ I can’t because I am falling asleep and because I woke up at 4 am today.” Said tommy almost asleep. Ok I think you need some rest, come on let's go, you can finish tomorrow, ok” “ok” said Tommy asleep on the couch in the waiting room of their office. The next day Annie and Tommy got back to work on the blog. “Morning Tommy I got you a coffee from our favorite place, The Playground Store!!” Tommy and Annie screamed and started hysterically laughing. “Morning thanks for the coffee. I am so hyped up right now, but I think I am going to take all the energy and put it on my computer. “You are right,Iam going to do the same thing.” About a half and hour later Tommy and Annie were down! “Ok we are both done with the blog and we are going to post it to all our fans, in 3, 2, 1” (press) “we did it!” They both said with a lot of excitement in there vocies. When Annie and Tommy posted the blog, their fans went crazy about 758 people seeing it when they posted it! And for the longest time Annie and Tommy were famous!