BEWARE: The Crazy Animals Are Loose!

(Book 2 in the nonsensical series called "Why Is An Orange?")

"The Crazy Animals Are Loose"

A collection of Short Stories by Elliana (age 6), Tano (age 9),
Uncle Jim, Grandma Jeannie and Grandpa Larry (ages unknown)

These stories were concocted as a cooperative team effort, while riding in the car today. We took turns in choosing the next word in the stories, as well as for the titles of the stories, and for the title of the book.

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Story 1 – “Giant Tadpoles Unite Against Lemonade”

Once upon a time a boy said, “Hello. My--my name is—is George”, and he showed lemonade to his giant frog’s tadpole, because the tadpole wanted to swim in a pool near frog eggs. Gently, as the feather floats up, down came a ton of frog eggs, filling tadpoles with gummy worms that were real green and slimy, just like snow.

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Story 2 – “Hello Kitty Cooties Are Squirmy”

High up in Hello Kitty treehouse lived a mouse whose name didn’t make money. One day beautiful dogs said, “I’m going to warn the others that there’s two dogs and one elephant nearby the treehouse. Please don’t feed the elephant or kiss the mouse until you pay the piper with money and trees that squirm whenever you drop your shorts and toothbrush.

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Story 3 – “Dentistry Is Needed For Money”

Today, I played crazily at the playground, but a bear came to eat me. Fortunately, I could run away slowly and play checkers on the bear’s head, because he had no teeth. Someday I want to apologize again to the bear’s mom for crowning his head with a black checker, and I saw the bear’s cutest, toothless smile. Tomorrow I plan to let my self eat the bear’s mom’s lasagna, because she had no teeth either.

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Makes no sense, you say? Well, neither does “Why is an orange?” (or other semi-related topics), but it was lots of fun-– crazy, silly, hilarious fun, with uproarious laughter and uncontrollable giggles! Guess you had to be there. Come to think of it, guess we weren't "all there" either, but we sure had fun! Ha Ha Ha!!!

The story-writing project helped to while away the time as we drove to and from a tubing trip down the river (2 miles of fairly fast current), which included shooting the rapids (3 different sets of rapids), and sometimes free-floating down the river! Woo hoo! What a ride! (Both in the car, and down the river!)

Tomorrow we'll head over to the ocean for an overnight camp-out (right at the ocean) and a day at the beach. Who knows what other creative, juices will be flowing!