The Popular Girl Who Was Actually a Tortoise/The Cat That Had a Trumpet

Nimene tries to fix everyone’s car sickness with a new invention. Featuring two new stories: “The Popular Girl Who Was Actually a Tortoise”, a story about tortoise who learns that life isn’t always easier when a tortoise witch turns you into a human popular girl, written by Jake, a 12 year old from Michigan, and “The Cat That Had a Trumpet”, a story about a cat who must choose between jazz-related fame and friendship, written by a 9 year old from Indiana named Preston. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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Original Stories

The Cat That Had a Trumpet

by Preston, Age 9. Indiana

The Popular Girl Who Was Actually a Tortoise

by Jake, age 12, Michigan

One day there was a tortoise who wanted to be a popular girl. She was sooooooooooooo tired of only eating leafs. So one day she visited the witch tortoise. The wanna-be popular tortoise was like, “Turn me into a popular girl.” The witch tortoise said,

“I will, but I will only turn you into a popular girl for a year! So you must be-”

“Yeah, yeah whatever just do it already!” The wanna-be popular tortoise cut her off. The witch tortoise said, “Oh okay, whatever.” and then there was a bang! And a Poof! And suddenly… She was a popular girl! The witch lady was going to remind her about how she will turn back into a tortoise in one year but the popular girl was already gone.

The popular girl was out making friends when the other girls were like “OMG you should get some Lume & Thread!” “What's Lume & Thread?” The popular girl asks. “Oh Lume & Thread is only like the BIGGEST designer brand there is!” the other girls say. The popular girl adds, “ “Oh, where i come from We don't have designer brands.”

The girls take her to a Lume & Thread store. “OMG I have never been in a store before!” says the popular girl. The other girls add, “Wait a minute, you have never been in a store before?” They all like, “OMG totally. and Bestie, what happened? And like I can’t even. and like Tell me everything. and like That’s so you. and like I’m obsessed, actually. and like Okay, spill. I’m listening. and throwing a bunch of popular girl phrases at her.

At this point it was too much for her to handle. She slid away and went back to her little tortoise colony. She complained to all her tortoise friends how annoying the popular girls are. Then she realized, she has to stay a popular girl for a entire year. She decided she was going to push through it. So the next day all the other popular girls were waiting for her at the door of school.

They were like “OMG where have you been?!?!?!?” they asked.“Ummmm, I was at…OH! I was at the boba tea shop.” She spots the boba tea sign. “You were at the Boba tea shop?” one of the girls said, acting sassy. The popular girl / tortoise says, “I, ummm-” “Without us?” said the girls. The popular girl / tortoise let out an (SUPER) exaggerated sigh.

About 11 and a half months later, the popular girl / tortoise was getting used to the human world. One particular day at school all the popular girls were hanging out gossiping and all of the sudden… THERE WAS A POOF!!!!!!! Some girls screamed, some of them just stood back and watched. Suddenly, there was a tortoise. The girls all laughed. But then they noticed that Michell was gone (that's what the popular girl / tortoise told the popular girls was her name.) They were like “ OMG where did Michelle go?” Then the tortoise spoke(In a SUPER high voice), “Im Michell!” Then the girls were like, “OMG are you a turtle?” “No, actually I'm a tortoise.” so then all the girls texted their group chats and said, “OMG Michell is a turtle.” “OMG really, No way.” and soon the news spread. And everybody in the school knew about it the next day. So the tortoise went back to her little tortoise colony. But she had an idea. She could make the witch tortoise and make her turn into something else! And the next thing she knew, she was a butterfly.

THE END!

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Cup Run

by Enzo, age 11, Spain

In the magic kingdom of game shows there was a game show called the cup run. Where 5 contestants names Cupli the metal cup, Cupfurdsin the 71236764587ith the glass cup, Cupguy the plastic cup Strongcup the paper cup, Fregily the silly straw cup. They would run through a maze full of traps with hot chocolate in them and not spiling. But before I continue lets tock about are sponsor rotten eggs and now back to the show. Cupli got lost in the maze forever. cupfurdsin the71236764587ith got stuck in a smaller maze. Cupguy put on sun glasses and got on a motorcycle and drove into the sun. For Strongcup the hot chocolate was so hot that he stared to leak. So that mins Fregily wins and he wone rotten eggs and boy they stink.

The end

The Magical Sheep

by Marzi, age 6, Montana

Once upon a time there was a magical sheep who was black and pink. All the white sheep were not including him in fun games. The sheep went off to find the all powerful green alpaca. Once the sheep got to the alpaca they didn't speak the same language so they couldn't understand each other. So the sheep has to do the hardest thing. The sheep has to start tap dancing. They will speak the language of dance. What the sheep had to do was touch the sun that was flaming hot. And then the alpaca and the sheep started tap dancing on the sun. And then they started speaking the same language. The alpaca can help with anything to change the white sheep's minds so they see the magical sheep and they like the magical sheep. And then it started raining MnMs because of the magical sheep. When it started raining MnMs back on earth all the sheep knew it was because of the magical sheep. They thanked him and whenever they played games the magical sheep won because he was magical. The end!!!!

The Day That Mean Man Ruined the Life of the World!

by Xander, age 5, Connecticut
There was a Mean Man and he was trying to destroy all the things and then Xander had a helmet that had spikes on it that could destroy the Mean Man. There were crystals and there were gems that could shoot rotten spaghetti out of him. And there was a centipede, a killer ant, a tarantula, a pterodactyl and a piranha and also some fish. Some clouds burst open and then they turned into jello and then Mean Man got nicer and became Nice Man! He was nice because he ate jello. And everyone wanted to hug him, even Xander, but he had a spiked helmet, so he took it off before he gave Nice Man a hug. And then an invisible volcano erupted and Nice Man exploded. Just kidding, he didn’t explode, he took a nap!

The End and Snacks

Pockets/The Evil Calendar

Meghan and Rachel compete to be Peter’s plus one for a movie premiere. Featuring two new stories: “Pockets”, a story about the #1 invention to help you not hold stuff, written by Scarlett, a 12 year old from Wisconsin, and “The Evil Calendar”, a story about the chaos that ensues when scheduling goes maliciously awry, written by a 6 year old from the UK named Aidan. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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Original Stories

Pockets

by Scarlett, Age 12. Wisconsin

The Evil Calendar

by Aidan, age 6, UK

The Evil Calendar moves the crossings-out on the calendar every day, so it goes from the top to the middle to the bottom. And also it rubs some of the crosses out. Then the boy gets confused, and they'll cross off the wrong day.

Then their Mum looks at the calendar and says, "You're wrong! It's not Monday today, it's SATURDAY today!"

Then they tell their Dad, "Is it Monday today?" and their Dad says, "No, darling, are you joking?"

And then the boy gets confused.

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Well That Escalated Quickly

by Samara, age 8, Wisconsin

I looked at my clothes and saw a strange circle. First I tried washing my clothes. It didn't work. In fact, it turned into a portal and sucked me in. I met the demon king. I defeated it.

Hot Dog Lasers

by Elias, age 9, Pennsylvania

Judge: Today is the case of Bob vs. Hot Dog.

Bob, you tell us your side of the story.

Bob: Thank you, Judge. So, it all happened yesterday…

[Yesterday]

Hot Dog Salesperson: Here’s your hot dog, Bob.

Bob: How much is it?

Hot Dog Salesperson: Two thousand dollars.

Bob: Okay, that’s perfectly reasonable!

Okay, now I'm about to eat my hot dog and ... oh no! It’s shooting lasers at me!

Ahh! It hit me and now I'm flying past Mars!

[Present Day]

Judge: Wait! If you flew past Mars, how are you on Earth?

Bob: Well, I used Mars’ gravitational field to slingshot back to earth!

Judge: Okay, that makes perfect sense!

I declare Hot Dog guilty!

Hot Dog: Awwwww!

Judge: Wait, you can talk?!?!?!

Hot Dog: The End!

The Fruit Tree

by Harlow, age 6, Maine

The Great Californian Adventure That Could Have Been So Much Better Than It Was

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The Great Californian Adventure That Could Have Been So Much Better Than It Was

by Creator Club

Chickpea with three eyes named Kucumbré. It is glowing! Really funny glasses.

The Car Honks - Super fast big curly hair. Doesn’t like the next character….

Ruffle the Anime Beaver Car salesman - 65 siblings - He is infested with worms. He’s afraid of the road.

They are going to California! Because it’s cold where they live.

I goes wrong because Honks doesn't like Ruffle. Ruffle breaks down crying. He’s not cut out for this. They both feel weird about it. But they all herd about somewhere warm. The three heroes decide to get into the car and head west to California. They Head down the highway.Things are feeling good. Everyone is getting along when something unexpected happens.

They get hungry. Stop and go get food. At the gas station. They don’t have any money. What will they do. Kucumbre finds a hatch. They open it and there’s a ladder. They go down. At the bottom there’s a door with a wheels locks. They open the door. There they are with face to face to face with a coconut.

Want to try some of my canned hotdog? they are only 100 years old.

They eat and tell the coconut their story.

This is your lucky day. I have a tunnel! Instead of the high way you can go through the tunnel which will take you to… Iowa. It all looks like a volcano is erupting. They meet a greek god, PAN god of the wild. This is his fault. He’s taken over. Pan is standing in the volcano as it erupts. HAHAHAHA!!!

They decide to help. They talk to Pan. Why has he done it? No reason. But he gives them a choice. I will save Iowa IF you do something for me…find pan’s pet mushroom name pile who can talk. On top of mountain Everest which is in a volcano. He got kidnapped by howling werewolves because they wanted to eat him at their base which is also a mushroom.

They go to mountain Everest. They get all the gear. They climb up. They wait in line. They save pile from the wolves. And bring him back to Iowa. Present him to PAn, he’s over joined. (even though it’s similar to his hanger. You have completed the task! POOF Iowa is saved. Iowans cheer. They are so happy they make a new holiday. Governor: We will do anything for you. What would you like? We’re just trying to get to California. You wish is our command. With Iowa magic they are transported to California. They are closer now.

They all have big muscles now. Ruffle and Honks now like each other; they are best friends.They have all learned to appreciate the pan flute. They dislike hotdogs now. They all still visit pile everyday.

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The Dirty Floor

by Eli, age 8, Missouri

Once upon a time, there was a marshmallow in a cabin with hot cocoa, and then he accidentally spilled his hot cocoa, and he didn't have any rags or anything, so he went to the store to get some dirt. And then he laid it out, and then he said "Ah! Now my floor is dirty!" So then he went to the store to get some grass to clean it up, and then he said "Ah! Now my floor looks like a field." And then he went back to the store again and buyed some apple seeds and then he said "Ah! Now it's more of a farm!" And then he started his own business and he got a lot of money and he used that money to buy some more hot cocoa and some apple cider and then share it with a friend. The End.

Percy the Penguin!

by Yatri, age 10. Canada
PERCY THE PENGUIN!

Percy the penguin lived in Antarctica. He was cold. so he moved to Florida.

THE END.

The Gardening Competition

by Leo, age 6, New York
Nobody owned the aquarium, so they had a competition to see who would get to own it. They had a competition to see who could grow the biggest tree the fastest. It was between a farmer and a baby. The baby's name was Googoogaga and the farmer's name was Sharkybarky because one time he was in a boat and he saw a shark who helped him because whales were trying to eat him, so multiple sharks attacked the whales.

They both went at the same time. They each had a shovel, a bucket of seeds, and 2 buckets of dirt. There were 500 judges. They started when the 500th judge, a special judge, the president of the United States, told them to start.

They planted all the seeds at once. They made a hole, dropped in the seed, covered it with dirt, watered it, and moved on to the next one. It only took 15 seconds to plant all of the seeds and for them to grow.

But there were bulls on the farm who came to eat the leaves. The baby had a Nerf gun that he used to shoot at the bulls. They ran away from the trees but charged at the baby. The baby ran away and was a good digger, so he dug a hole and went in. The bulls dug with their horns, but they couldn't catch the baby. The baby ran away and the bulls ran home.

The farmer lost the competition and got dunked in an ice pool. He said it was refreshing, but when he got out, he was an ice block and they had to nail him out. The baby won and got to own the aquarium. The baby was very smart.

The end!

Alfred and the Broken Cup/Princess Lemon and the Tennis Tournament (feat. Kate Micucci)

Baby With a Moustache runs into her estranged sister, Toddler With a Goatee (Kate Micucci). Featuring two new stories: “Alfred and the Broken Cup”, a story about a man who goes to great lengths to fix a leak, written by a 2nd grader from New York named Alfred, and “Princess Lemon and the Tennis Tournament”, a story about enterprising young Princess who uses her tennis excellence to make a sour process awfully sweet, written by an 8 year old from Arizona named Norah. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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Original Stories

Alfred and the Broken Cup

by Alfred, 2nd grade. New York

Once there was a cup of coffee. This is a cup of coffee. It is brown coffee. It tastes like chocolate. Oh no! The cup broke!" Alfred said.
“My coffee is dripping out! Help!” Alfred will save the coffee! “I will fix the cup!" Alfred tries to tape the cup. It does not work. The coffee is dripping. Alfred puts the cup in a bag. It does not work. The coffee is dripping. Alfred tries to put the cup on a chocolate bar. It does not work. The coffee is dripping. Alfred decided he is thirsty. He drinks the coffee. Alfred says, “This is not coffee! It is hot chocolate!
DEEEEIICIOUS!”

The End.

Princess Lemon and the Tennis Tournament

by Norah, age 8, Arizona

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Princess Lemon. She and everyone in the Lemon Kingdom absolutely loved lemons. But she always felt like something was missing.

Princess Lemon was sweet and kind and nice and beautiful. And sometimes silly when no one noticed. But everyone else in the Lemon Kingdom was so sour all the time. She dreamed of finding someone sweet. Princess Lemon decided to host a tennis tournament (because she loved tennis so much.) She invited every man in her kingdom and all the nearby princes. If one of them could beat her, she would marry him! The tournament brought people from all over the world, including Prince Onion, Prince Radish, Prince Sugar, Prince Potato, and Prince Taco. Even a cute dog named Rufus came to chase all the tennis balls at the tournament! The tournament went on all day. Finally only Prince Radish and Prince Sugar were left battling to see who would go up against Princess Lemon. Prince Radish broke his tennis racket! He was really mad! Prince Sugar gave him his backup tennis racket. Princess Lemon realized that Prince Sugar was really sweet and nice! Prince Sugar beat Prince Radish! Now it was time to play Princess Lemon! He brought her a beautiful bouquet of sugar cane. That was so nice. Princess Lemon tried a little sugar and thought “that’s the thing that’s missing!” Princess Lemon and Prince Sugar played an epic game of tennis. Princess Lemon won! Everyone was amazed at her tennis skills. Prince Sugar was devastated because he really wanted to marry Princess Lemon! But Princess Lemon had realized that Prince Sugar was what she was looking for all along! He was very sweet. She said “I’ll marry you anyway!” She had given his sugar cane bouquet to her chef who made the most amazing lemon bars she ever had! Prince Sugar was overjoyed! They planned an amazing wedding! Princess Lemon wore lemons on her wedding dress and Prince Sugar wore sugar cubes on his suit. Their wedding favors were cups of lemon slices and sugar cubes. But then it rained! Oh no! Everyone thought the day was ruined and their kingdoms would never be united. The wedding favors were filling up with rain too! But Princess Lemo took a sip of the rainwater. It was the best thing ever! Everyone tried it and rejoiced! They called it lemonade and became the Lemonade Kingdom. King Sugar and Queen Lemon lived happily ever after!

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The Rolling Restaurant

by Beth, age 6, Canada

Once upon a time, there was a girl and she liked to go to restaurants. One time when she was in one of her many restaurants, she felt some bumping. And then she felt some wobbling. But then, she looked out the window and she saw that the restaurant had wheels!

She went to the front of the restaurant where you order your food, and saw that there was a steering wheel. He didn’t even notice her. It was zooming through the town!

And that’s why you should never go to a restaurant unattended that doesn’t have an outside.

The end.

3 Broken Heros

by Ronan, age 9, Connecticut

There were 3 weird birds. 1 had no wings, another had a roller coaster hat and the last one was a baby bird that created the world. They wanted to become knights, but they were untrained. To train they battled the furniture god Mr. Garlic Guy. They defeated him on the 732nd try. Then a giant piano with wings came to the village. He was also made by an evil scientist named Bob who came from piano planet. They used their new onion shredders to defeat the giant piano. He was defeated then all the birds had a pizza party.

PS. the bird with a roller coaster hat's name was 3, the one with no feather's name is Broken, and the baby that made the world's name is Hero's.

Skeleton Man + Key Lime Pie

by Margot, age 8, North Carolina
Once there was an SM. You can guess what that is! He was made of yogurt. It was made of key lime pie. He had all the tech. He had a watch that was so high tech you couldn't even blink when you saw it. Once he made a maid robot helper. She does anything even fly and barf out rainbows and shoot fire. One day he was spooked. The maid was evil! She got a big black castle and lived in it. She became a vampire and eated only one thing. Hairy yodels! Then moo moo man the super hero cow defeated her. Then the whole thing happened 100000000000000000 more times. Everyone now eats lo-lontinotas aka potatoes. The end.

The Grouchy Friends/The Girl Who Never Fell Asleep (feat. Jeff Hiller and Hannah Solow)

Peter has a surprising encounter with Evil Robot Peter at a huge gas station that sells everything you could ever need. Featuring two new stories: “The Grouchy Friends”, a song about two pals, a horse (Jeff Hiller) and a bear (Hannah Solow), who have to work extra hard to get along, written by Dylan, a 6 year old from the New York, and “The Girl Who Never Fell Asleep”, a story about a mom with some pretty surprising ideas about how to wind down, written by a 9 year old from New York named Wilder. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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The Grouchy Friends (Feat. Jeff Hiller and Hannah Solow)

by Dylan, age 6. New York

The bear and the horse are talking. The bear is grouchy because the horse is noisy. The bear is trying to be friendly and telling him to be quiet.

Our adaptation of “The Grouchy Friends” was written and produced by Eric Gersen

The Girl Who Never Fell Asleep

by Wilder, age 9, New York

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The Five Cars

by Sammy, age 6, Washington

Five cars were at the start line. Their names were called Rusty Radar, Crackererer, Bas House, Super Slinker and Donker Zonker. And then Super Slinker skidded off the side with Rusty Radar was in first until...he broke his radar! He stopped then Crackererer popped a tire. After that he got repaired and skidded into Donker Zonker. And Bas House Won the race. Impressive!

The Thing I Lost

by Ellen, age 9, California

Once there was a man named Bobby. He almost NEVER loses things. One day he lost his cat. Bobby searched everywhere but couldn't find his cat! So he finally decided toretrace his steps. But he had to get his cat back in thirty minutes!

Four minutes later…..

Bobby was on the beach. He walked for a while and then bumped into a VERY sunburned man. Bobby said “have you seen my cat?” the man said “No, have you seen my sunscreen?” “No, sorry,” said Bobby and walked away.

Six minutes later…..

Then, Bobby was in France. He climbed to the top of the eiffel tower and met a woman.
“Hi, have you seen my cat?” No, have you seen my sunglasses?” asked the woman.
“No, sorry.” Bobby said back, and climbed back down the eiffel tower.

Ten minutes later…..

Bobby was in a random place in Texas. “Howdy there human!” said a random cowboy. “Uh, hi?” said Bobby back. “Are you looking for your cat?” Said the random cowboy. “Yeah, how did you know?” asked Bobby. “I can read minds. Anyways, check in your pocket!” said the random cowboy. “Ok?” said Bobby. He checked in his pocket. “AHA!” yelled Bobby. “Here it is! My Camera Arm Toaster! I still have ten minutes left so I better get going! THANKS RANDOM COWBOY!”

Seven minutes later…….

Then, Bobby was home. He could finally set up his Camara Arm Toaster!

THE END!

Popcorn Robot Egg

by Henri, age 6, Rhode Island
One morning a farmer checks on his chicken eggs. He finds that one of them is a robot egg. The egg opens and inside is a diamond crystal. The egg shell transforms around the diamond and becomes a human robot and the diamond becomes his heart. The robot man shoots golden tickets out of himself because he is also a ticket-making factory. People start to find the tickets on the ground. They show them to the news and learn the ticket gets them a free trip to Las Vegas. But the tickets are magic and turn the people who found them into robots, too. Once they get to Las Vegas they start covering the city in popcorn.

The Human Light Bulb who got his powers in a lightning storm created by another superhero Lightning Strike, two hundred years ago, showed up. He created a thunder cloud that zapped the robots burying the city and turned them back into humans. He zapped the popcorn to clean the city. He also zapped the robot man that came from the egg, who fell apart. His diamond crystal heart was put in the museum and the parts of the robot were used to make new robots. The new robots, along with the farmer, helped repair the city and protect it from then on. Everyone lived happily ever after.

The end.

Farmageddon

Today’s brand new story is about a kid who is stuck inside of a movie and has to find a way out. Written by a 10 year old from Texas named Logan.

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F a r m a g e d d o n

by Logan, age 10, Texas

Once upon a time exactly 217 seconds before August 14th, 2002 8:00 A.M., there lived a boy named Ethan. And Ethan loved movies. But if you’re thinking stuff like Kpop Demon Hunters, then you’re wrong, ‘cause in the 2000s, movies were utterly unhinged, like Freaky Friday, or Monster House. So, the boy loved movies. But his favorite had to be Farm Life, about a time when everyone was a farmer. But it turns out an evil warlock cursed everyone to be farmers. But maybe the movie makers slacked off, because after the main character screams ‘no’ because he has to be a farmer for eternity, it just cuts to the credits. But Ethan liked it, because he liked imagination. So, when he found a genie at the haunted antique store with absolutely no name whatsoever, he wished that the Farm Life movie was real.

But this genie had strict rules when it came to this. He said that Ethan had the duration of the movie to reach the happy ending, which meant Ethan had an hour to save the world from something that doesn’t exist (as in, it’s a fictional villain). If he prevails, things will go back the way it was. But if not, the world will stay like that forever. Now, you remember when I told you about how the movie makers slacked off and forgot to put an ending? Well, this is the consequence. Now Ethan was on his own, and he couldn’t unwish it. Even the genie disappeared, because there were no genies in the movie Farm Life. And now, it was exactly 83 seconds after August 14th, 2002 8:00 A.M..

So, first, there was the prologue, in which the hero talked about how great the farm life was. But Ethan was in a rush. So he tried to remember where the warlock’s lair was. But everyone, even his brother, Naethan, tried to distract him with the “wonders of farm life.” So, he tried running, but everyone was creeping up to him fast. So, he ran some more. Ran for his life. And he finally got there, to Cleaveux Mountain. So, he tried to figure out the password. The pad had 12 buttons to push, with 0, A, and B as 10, 11, and 12, respectively. So, with his memory, he knew the first was the top-right corner, so 4. Then, there was the bottom-right corner, so B. After that, there was the one left to B, so A. Lastly, there was B again. So the code was 4BAB. Ethan entered the code, and it worked. So he was at the climax with 50 minutes left.

At last. Twas’ time to save the world. The warlock, Cleaveux, went on with his evil monologue, which gave Ethan the perfect time to strike. It was way easier than you might have thought it would be. Alone, Cleaveux was weak, and whenever he used a spell, he had to first recite the incantation. So Cleaveux was knocked out in 5 minutes. And Ethan saved the world in exactly 15 minutes.

But that isn’t the end. In the big 2020, he reported his tall tale to the makers of Farm Life and encouraged them to make a reboot with a finished story. And they did, which wasted the company $80K. Bet those slackers regret what they did.

T h e E n d

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Back in My Day

by Elizabeth, age 9, New Zealand

The Bog Problems

by Oslo, age 10, North Carolina

One day in the city on Mars… “Mayor we have a problem” said the mayor’s assistant “here’s a taco” said the mayor. “But the problem is“, but then aliens from Pluto came and kept beating everyone at Uno and they were stealing Martian coins! With their new money they bought emoji masks. One of them was a poop emoji. everyone was laughing then the mayor got everyone on a giant couch and they all watched Wetube. everybody had forgotten about the problem from the beginning except the assistant. He told the mayor “the problem is that your golden toilet is clogged” then the mayor gave the assistant a plunger.

the end

p.s. Wetube is the Martian version of YouTube

Jane and Apple Fall Down Because of the Dinosaur

by Mavin, age 5, Illinois
Jane and Apple are sisters and they were walking home in the desert and a big dinosaur was sleeping. And while they were quietly walking, Apple sneezed and then the dinosaur woke up! And then the surprised Apple chases the dinosaur and then Mr. Paper Towel came out from behind spaghetti and then the mom t-rex came out. Then the mom picked up the dinosaur that was woken up and tucked them back in bed. Then the mom dinosaur chased Apple, Jane, & Mr. Paper Towel. Then a pterodactyl came out of the clouds and spread his wings, grabbed a fish, and dropped it in mom dinosaur's mouth. Apple, Jane, & Mrs. Paper Towel found bananas and made a car to escape and go back home. Apple and Jane made a new rule not to walk home through the desert again.

Penny the Multi-Talented Girl/Husbordes (feat. Glo Tavarez)

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.

The Birthday Fiasco/The Backwards Hat

Lord Eric Half-Elven, champion of the weak and all around cool dude, rallies his compatriots to slay the Great Serpent. Featuring two new stories: “The Birthday Fiasco”, about a string of birthday gift robberies that can only be foiled by the Animal Buddies, written by Carmella, age 7 in Canada, and “The Backwards Hat”, a story about what happens when a magic top hat turns everything topsy-turvy, written by Milo, age 10 in California. Peter and Lee also read more stories written by kids in the latest installment of Story Love.

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The Birthday Fiasco

by Carmella, age 7, Canada

There was a cat named Shadow. She was a black cat. It was her friend’s birthday. When she was about to wrap the present, something stole it!

So she called the Animal Buddies. There was a fox. There was a rabbit. There was a pig. And there was a dog. She explained what happened.

Then when they got there, they found a trail of wrapping paper. They followed it through the city. Until they reached a pile of birthday presents in a corner of the city.

Then unexpectedly Mr Bad Cow said “You’ll never stop me from stealing these presents mwah ha ha ha haaaaa!"

“We’ll see about that” said Super Fox.

“Oh yeah?” Said Mr Bad Cow

Then they chased him into a dumpster and Super Dog said “Who’s gonna get each other now?”

And then CLICK

The Super Rabbit and the Super Pig put handcuffs on Mr Bad Cow and together Super Rabbit, Super Pig, Super Fox, and Super Dog said “GOT YOU!”

“Oh fine I’ll return all the presents” said Mr Bad Cow

So then the black cat got the present to her friend’s party.

The End

The Backwards Hat

by Milo, age 10, California
A man finds a top hat that makes things backwards. For example he put it on, and cats are chasing dogs, and instead of people planting gardens, gardens are planting people. As the story goes on, things get wackier and wackier, and he starts to like the hat, and keeps wearing it. Instead of walking his dog, the dog walks him. Instead of riding his horse at the ranch, the horse rides him. He doesn't like that. But then at night, the dogs and horse make him dinner, which tastes really good, and then his kids put him to bed. He really likes that! Nowadays he sometimes wears the hat but not all the time.

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Theater Class with Sleepy Sally

by Finola, age 10, Idaho

This stores about 3 characters, The theater teacher, Sleepy Sally, and the narrator, "who is the N-A-R-O-R-A-T-O-R" uh Me. Ahem, One sunny morning on Flirby Drive Sleepy Sally was rushing about , getting her things for theater A.K.A. falling asleep every 2 seconds! When she finally got there they were already through half of class! luckily she was on time for auditions. she auditioned for a cat named snuffles. 2 WEEKS LATER.... Yay I YAWN got the YAWN part!Thanks theater teacher. It's all right, and by the way my name is May-yes yes I know, no not you narrator!Oh okay, so the day of the play It was Sleepy Sallys time for a solo and she was so tired that she tripped up the stairs. as the lights shined on her the warmth from them made her even more tired that she fell asleep ON THE STAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The director had to wake her up and shoo her of the stage,May was soooo embarrassed. and................. THE END!!!!!!!!!!

Nuclear Nosepicker

by Cirrus, age 8, Michigan

Once there was a boy who picked his nose. He took his boogers and made a super, big ball. Then he put some nuclear waste on the giant booger ball. A few moments later, it turned into Booger Man!

The nose picking boy went into his room and saw Booger Man. He saw a scary, bright green, slimy, two-armed, dumb blob.

Suddenly, nose picking boy ran to his parents. He told his parents to look in his room. The parents were busy looking at the Halloween costumes. They all ran to the boy’s room to see the Booger Man. His mom and dad did not see the Booger Man but the nose picking boy did. The parents are confused! The nose picking boy is worried.

The Booger Man has feelings too! He feels lonely.

In the other room, nose picking boy’s sister was making a giant booger ball. She found a nuclear waste can, just before she put it on her booger ball nose picking boy burst in. He loudly said, “NOOOOOO!”

But he was too late! She dropped the nuclear waste can. They walked out of the room to talk about the booger ball mixed with nuclear waste. Nose picking girl walked into her room and screamed! “There is a big Booger Woman!”

She ran to her parents and told them about the Booger Woman, all of it. They all went to her room, but the parents did not see the Booger Woman. The parents were disappointed. The nose picking girl was worried.

The Booger Woman also has feelings. She feels lonely.

The Booger Man went to the nose picking girl’s room. The Booger Woman saw Booger Man and fell in love.

Then! Then! The end!

The Goo on My Window

by Leah, age 11, Vermont

Aaak! Eeek! There’s a strange, horrendous, oogly bogly, ishy, squatchy, gooey, globby, moist towelette flavored streak of shining white (with a little brown and green in it) goo on my window! It’s making my town of Burgly Bergonson very upset! Whatever shall I doooooooooooo?!

*Ding dong, ding dong* “yes hello?” I say as I pick up my hard pickle phone. “I hear you are having trouble with dodo bird snot.” says a coconut drink hat wearing squishy pig face man named Jeffery Baloney (Don’t ask me how I know that). “Uh, no Sir Jeffery Baloney, it’s goo.” “THAT’S WHAT I SAID!” Suddenly, he hangs up with a loud *bagalisous*! Hmmmmmmm. That was a very well good conversation. Don’t correct my grammar Daddy! Now, back to staring at the goo with a donkey on my butt.

3 DAYS LATER…

“All clean! It only took five screws, a capybara key chain, the presidents address, a green flavored popsicle, a 243mm crochet hook, a paper mache flower, and a pineapple shoelace from New Jersey but your window is goooooooo free!” Says a random rat named Bitzee Boing Boing.

HOOOORRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA!!

“The end” said the goo. Wait, THE GOO?!