Nimene and Lee discover a curious house and its even more curious proprietor (Glo Tavarez). Featuring two new stories: “Penny the Multi-Talented Girl”, about a girl who does everything well and her search for a true friend, written by Mia, age 9 from the UK, and “Husbordes”, a story about a mad scientist who manages to combine hoverboards and husbands, written by a 14 year old from Texas named Olivia. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.
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Penny the Multi-Talented Girl
by Mia, age 9, UK
Penny was a girl. She wasn’t just any girl she was… multi-talented girl! Penny had so many friends because she was good at everything but sometimes she wondered what would happen if she made a mistake. One thought led to another and she thought her friends only liked her because she was good at everything. Penny was sad. Just at that moment one of her(many)friends(from the sporty genre)walked in the empty classroom Penny was in and sat next to her. “You okay Penny you look blue but that might be paint since you’re good at everything including art.” “Seriously Max well I am a bit sad. I feel like everybody’s my friend just because I’m good at everything.” “Well even if that is true I like you for who you are. Isn’t that enough?” “You know what you’re right! I’ve got you and that’s all I need!”
So, Penny and Max became best friends and Penny told all of her so-called friends to like her for herself, like Max, and then maybe they can be proper friends with Penny. “Come on Penny let’s go outside, jump up and shout the end in sync!”
“The end!”
Husbordes
by Olivia, age 14, Texas
It was a dark and stormy night and Dr. Blaire McMad was in her laboratory. She was thinking to herself about her recent ideas, but there is something I must tell you, Dr. Blaire always had odd ideas. Let me tell you about a few of them. One of her ideas was a cat car. Which was a major disaster. This was a car that was powered by cats. She knew she needed more ideas, but what? Blaire McMad thought and thought all day, but then she had an idea. She loved to ride on her hoverboard, but the standing platform of the hoverboard had broken. What thing could she use instead? When she opened the door she saw her husband named Tom waiting for her at the door! She had a crazy idea. What if she used Tom to make a new platform for the hoverboard? So she asked Tom if he was OK with it and he was! So the next day she took him with her to work and tied him to the hoverboard. It worked, and now husboreds are sold all over the US!
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How We Got the Moon
by Cody, age 8, Virginia
This is how we really got the moon, up in space, there was a wishing star who had a wish. He asked everyone, “May you grant this wish for me to be a big giant ball of rock that orbits around my favorite planet, Earth?” He searched far and wide. (WOOSH) he asked his great Uncle Starford, “Will you grant my wish?” “No,” said Starford. (WOOSH) He asked crazy ol Star Mcstucket. “Will you grant my wish?” “I can’t,” he answered. (WOOSH) he asked his sister Ursa Mabel. “Will you grant my wish?” “Why should I?” Until he got to Earth’s Sun and questioned “Can (pant) you please grant me (pant) my wish (pant) to be a rock that (pant) orbits around the planet (pant), Earth?”. The sun answered, “Yes, but under one condition: everyone must call you Moon.” Star (A.K.A. Moon) said, “Yes!” there was a huge pop and he instantly turned into the Moon. And that's the real ridiculous story of how we got the Moon. The end.
The World Where You Cannot Say Help
by Beth, age 6, Canada
Once upon a time there was a girl, and she needed help because she was stuck in a tree. And she said, “Help!”
And here parents said, “You can’t say help! Just get down.”
“But I can’t get down.”
“You should have just said that!”
“OK, but why can’t we say help?”
“Because that’s the rule.”
“Who says that we can’t say help?”
“The Mayor.”
“Oh. Then help me down.”
“But we said you can’t say help.”
“Okay, just get me down.”
“OK.”
The girl was down. And then she said, “Can you get my scooter out?”
OK, and the parents got her scooter out. And she hopped on.
“Where are you going?”
“Just to tell the Mayor.”
“OK, but he might not say yes.”
“Ok, bye!”
And the girl went to tell the Mayor.
And the Mayor said, “Why do you ask this question?
Because I said “help.”
“I thought I made it clear not to say ‘Help.’”
“But are you going to say Yes or No?”
“Let me think about it. But please do not say help again.”
“But you said ‘help.’”
“Ooops, but you said help too.”
“Ooops. Okay, let’s stop talking about this.”
“How did you get here in the first place?”
“I scootered.”
And then she scootered home.
Her parents said, “Hi!”
And she said, “Hi!”
And her parents let her in for a cup of tea and maybe some brownies. And the parents asked, “Sweetie, what did he say.”
“He’s still deciding.”
“Um, OK. But it’s time to go to bed. Maybe the next day we’ll figure out if he said it or not.”
And then they all went to bed.
… except for the dog. And the dog hopped on the scooter and rode off.
And the next day, she went to tell the Mayor, but she had no scooter! But she still had a helmet, and knee pads, and elbow pads, and fingerless gloves.
So she went to look for her scooter. And she found the dog underneath the tree, next to her scooter. And she was like, “What happened?”
And she went and got a translator and put it on the dog, and the dog said, “I was scootering!”
And she said, “you’re not meant to scooter on my scooter, okay?” And she took her scooter back.
And then she took her scooter, and the dog had made it halfway to the Mayor’s house, she only had to scooter the rest of the way.
She went to the Mayor’s house and the Mayor said: “Yes!”
“Oh yay!”
“But now we have to call it: the No Saying Yes Town”
“But you just said ‘Yes’.”
“Oh, uh oh… go and tell your parents please.”
So, she scootered to the dog, and got the dog and scootered home and she got to her parents and said…
“This is the end.”
The End.
The Rapping Lawyer
by Beckett, age 10, Canada
There once was a lawyer who only rapped. He was so good if he lost he would pay his clients 1,000,000 gooses. And every time he went to court it became a rap battle. Ps he lives in Arizona.
