The Story Pirates create an extremely popular underground car wash. Featuring two new stories: “The Dangerous Plumbers,” a harrowing tale about who NOT to hire to fix a clog, written by Julian, an 8 year old from New York, and “The Bike That Is a Car,” a story about the greatest transportation invention of all time, written by a 6 year old from Toronto named Aliyah.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
Original Stories
The Dangerous Plumbers
by Julian, age 8, New York
“Hey Mommy, the bathroom drain is clogged,” Billy said.
“Billy, that is absurd, I checked it last night and it wasn’t clogged!”
Billy’s father says, “No, he is right. It is really clogged.”
“Ok–I’ll call the plumbers.”
Then, after Billy’s mother called the plumbing company, they arrived.
One plumber said, “Where is the drain we need to unclog?”
Billy’s Dad replied, “Yeah, right this way, we have a bathroom drain that is clogged with hair and dirt and other stuff.”
The plumber said, “OK, we’ll just go ahead and fix it. You folks may want to step out of the house for a moment.”
“Why are you holding those big canisters? And what is that glugitty glugh glugh noise?”
“Oh, don’t worry. Just the stuff we use to unclog your drain.”
“Billy! Janice! we are leaving the house now. The plumbers want us to leave the house.”
When the family got outside, they started hearing strange noises. They were looking at the truck for the name of this unusual plumber. The name painted on the side of the truck was “Melting the Drain.” Below that was painted, “We’ll unclog your drain with our special stuff.”
William, the father, says, “I see smoke coming out of the plumbing vent on the roof. What kind of plumbers are these?”
The plumbers come out of the house with smoke coming everywhere through the air. The say, “You better wear these air masks inside the house for a little while.”
William says, “What kind of plumbers are you?”
Billy does not wait for an answer. He gets the air mask on like the plumbers asked, and rushes to the house with his parents behind him.
When they open the door to the house, William, Janice, and Billy realize that the plumbers dumped hot lava down the bathtub drain! The bathtub was melting and the pipes were melting, too.
Then, they noticed the sink was running and the water was running on the floor, cooling some of the hot lava into stone where they flowed together.
They also realized that the bathroom shower was on and so was the kitchen sink! Two sinks and a shower were running water on the floor.
Billy says, “I guess that is for safety reasons.”
Billy’s parents rushed downstairs, realized that the basement was filled with lava and was melting everything in its path.
They also noticed the roof was on fire from the large amount of heat.
The family ran out of the house at this point and called the fire department and the police.
Walking back to the plumber’s truck with the police in front of them, and the fire department trying to put out the burning house, the police say to the plumbers, “You are under arrest!”
The Bike That Is A Car
by Aliyah, age 6, Canada
A boy comes home from school. He bikes home on his bike. While he’s bicycling, an idea occurs to him, that he should invent a bicycle that is a car. When he bikes home he asks his mom if he can get a bunch of materials from everywhere. He built a bike. But then he wanted it to be a car too because he loves driving cars. So he made a picture of a car that is a bike and everything it can do. Then he tried to build it. He first built it out of cardboard. He tried to drive it. He tried to do everything he could but he couldn’t get it to work. He realized that he needed some tubes and real buttons that did stuff. But it’s still made out of cardboard so it didn’t work. So then he realized that he needed it to be out of something hard. So he made it out of plastic. It kinda worked, but it drove for about 5 seconds then it crashed. Then he tried to make it out of glass, but it smashed. Because glass smashes. So he asked his next door neighbour if she could help- she was an engineer. His next door neighbour Ms. Fred planned it out on a piece of paper. He said everything it should do. And Ms. Fred drawed it on the piece of paper and wrote it in his garage. They start to build it. Ms. Fred said that, “We need lots of materials from everywhere!” It took about 5 weeks for them to get all the materials. After they got all the materials, they started to build. Months and years and seasons passed by. And they were still not done. The boy waited patiently. One day it was done and they tried it out. After they tried to bike they realized it was too heavy, they tried to make it lighter. First the boy thought to make it out of foam, but the engineer said that won't work. Then they realized not to put so much pressure and weight. It took another 5 weeks to get the new materials, again years, weeks and months passed by. Again the boy was so patient, he waited. Finally they tried again, but he wasn’t so sure about perseverance and what was going to happen. The engineer said that perseverance is key in building stuff. Then they tried it out, it still didn’t work. This time the problem was there was no pedals because they forgot about them. It took another 5 weeks to get all the materials. The boy was losing his patience. After another weeks, months, years passed by he had no patience. The engineer said, “We waited all this time, and try it out. Don’t loose your patience young boy!” They tried it out and it still did not work. The engineer secretly put in too much stuff that made it not work. For she was making a big surprise. The boy finally thought they should give up. But the engineer was still working all year long. Until it was his birthday. She surprised him with the vehicle he wanted. He drove it everywhere. He became a car seller for those bike cars.
Story Spark
Julian, who wrote “The Dangerous Plumbers" is presenting this week's Story Spark!
Write about an invention that can shrink or "gigantify" something. How does the invention work? And what can you use it on?
Roll Call Stories
Jolie’s Podcast
by a 4-year-old named Jolie in Massachusetts
I want you to enjoy my podcast.
It's about how people eat and drink. I will start with drinking. Put water in your mouth and then swallow it. Now food. You put food in your mouth, chew, chew, chew, chew; until it's all chewed up and and you have the food in your stomach.
This is a kid podcast. And a kid is writing it. A kid that is still learning how to to read.
Now, how people survive. People survive with food and water. You need to drink carefully and eat carefully so the food and kind of water you are drinking won't go down your throat without you swallowing it. You need to be careful for every step of your life even when you are still a baby.
I need you to be careful when you drink and eat. The End.
There’s A Goat Stuck In The Chimney
by 11-year-old Clara in California
There's a goat stuck in the chimney.
The First Smore
by 10-year-old Gideon in Illinois
READ IT HERE!
The Oval Apocalypse
by 9-year-old William in Tennessee
Once upon a time in a not very far away live of paper. A pencil was drawing ovals lots and lots of EVIL OVALS.🖋 a big oval, a medium oval, and a small oval. Together they ruled the world and made it an oval.then they ate all the erasers and then the pen the end
