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I just found the best thing ever: the epic tale a friend and I wrote together in sixth grade. At least I remembered it being epic, so it's a bit of a come-down to discover that it's a mere fifteen pages long.
I have excerpted the first couple paragraphs for your delectation.
Worm and Juniper raced after Shakespeare, closely followed by four sheep. Dorcus, the evil wizard, was in hot pursuit, shrieking curses and trying to push his red hair out of his swarthy face. Worm and Juniper sprinted forward, trying to keep out of range of Dorcus’s trident –
CRASH!
Page Perfect, the boy who bunnies followed, had knocked into the sheep and Dorcus...
This beginning may raise questions in your mind. Why is an evil wizard chasing Juniper and Worm? How did the sheep get involved? Why do bunnies follow Page Perfect? What does Shakespeare have to do with anything?
Reader, these questions will never be answered. Except the one about Shakespeare. Eight pages on, it is revealed that he is a golden retriever. And, while we will never learn why the bunnies follow Page Perfect, we will discover that there are three and they are called Leaper, Harper, and Wolf the attack bunny.
But never mind! These aren't the main characters anyway. We won't meet our heroes for another half page, when Athena turns two of the sheep into black cats by setting them on fire with her magical torch. After that Juniper and Worm lie down for a nap and the cats go on a quest.
The cats never quite manage to settle on a gender. Every few paragraphs their pronouns inexplicably switch.
But anyway. The cats meet the great and terrible Zeus, (who later changes his catch phrase to "Never fear, Zeus is here!"), a steam engine who thinks he's a sea turtle, and Zila, who looks like a panda except she can hypnotize people by rotating her puffy purple ears. Also, every few paragraphs they get transported to another world by poisonous purple puffballs (experiencing, on the way, a flipping/spinning/somersaulting/twisting (sickening) sensation).
Somewhere in between the somersaulting sensations they defeat the evil Hercules II, who lives on the Twisted Stair, who is so evil that in the end his evil wizards (Dorcus, Dimmius, and Hypocrites - pronounced Hypocriteez) abandon him en masse. But fear not! Hercules II has an evilizing machine, thus setting up the grounds for the sequel.
Which never got written. Even though we left the cats literally hanging by their paws off a cliff. But don't worry! Wolf the attack bunny was still free to save them!
...Okay, on a purely sentence level the tale is kind of awful. But I'm totally proud that we recorded our ridiculously awesome crazy for posterity.
I have excerpted the first couple paragraphs for your delectation.
Worm and Juniper raced after Shakespeare, closely followed by four sheep. Dorcus, the evil wizard, was in hot pursuit, shrieking curses and trying to push his red hair out of his swarthy face. Worm and Juniper sprinted forward, trying to keep out of range of Dorcus’s trident –
CRASH!
Page Perfect, the boy who bunnies followed, had knocked into the sheep and Dorcus...
This beginning may raise questions in your mind. Why is an evil wizard chasing Juniper and Worm? How did the sheep get involved? Why do bunnies follow Page Perfect? What does Shakespeare have to do with anything?
Reader, these questions will never be answered. Except the one about Shakespeare. Eight pages on, it is revealed that he is a golden retriever. And, while we will never learn why the bunnies follow Page Perfect, we will discover that there are three and they are called Leaper, Harper, and Wolf the attack bunny.
But never mind! These aren't the main characters anyway. We won't meet our heroes for another half page, when Athena turns two of the sheep into black cats by setting them on fire with her magical torch. After that Juniper and Worm lie down for a nap and the cats go on a quest.
The cats never quite manage to settle on a gender. Every few paragraphs their pronouns inexplicably switch.
But anyway. The cats meet the great and terrible Zeus, (who later changes his catch phrase to "Never fear, Zeus is here!"), a steam engine who thinks he's a sea turtle, and Zila, who looks like a panda except she can hypnotize people by rotating her puffy purple ears. Also, every few paragraphs they get transported to another world by poisonous purple puffballs (experiencing, on the way, a flipping/spinning/somersaulting/twisting (sickening) sensation).
Somewhere in between the somersaulting sensations they defeat the evil Hercules II, who lives on the Twisted Stair, who is so evil that in the end his evil wizards (Dorcus, Dimmius, and Hypocrites - pronounced Hypocriteez) abandon him en masse. But fear not! Hercules II has an evilizing machine, thus setting up the grounds for the sequel.
Which never got written. Even though we left the cats literally hanging by their paws off a cliff. But don't worry! Wolf the attack bunny was still free to save them!
...Okay, on a purely sentence level the tale is kind of awful. But I'm totally proud that we recorded our ridiculously awesome crazy for posterity.
