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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Story Love Stories
Scroll down to read the original stories or watch Peter, Lee, and special guest Nimene read them and react below:
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
