Sisterella

Twisted Fairy Tale: Sisterella

Once upon a time, in a far far away land there lived one stubborn, greedy, and selfish little girl named Cinderella. Cinderella had a wonderful, kind mother who became very sick, and after two months, passed away. Cinderella took all her sadness and anger out on herself, and became even more evil and stubborn.

After a sad, depressing year for the stubborn, angered Cinderella, Cinderella’s father decided to re-marry. His new wife brought along her sweet, smart, and caring daughters. As soon as Cinderella looked at the stepsisters, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with them. But on the other hand, they were thrilled to have another sister!

Cinderella’s stepmother liked her and wanted her to be happy so she forced her two stepdaughters to do all the chores. The stepmother would also spoil Cinderella with extra dresses, jewelry, and gifts. As you would guess, Cinderella accepted every one of them without even a ‘thank you’.

One sunny morning, Cinderella awoke to hearing cries of, “The Royal Ball is today!” The two stepsisters woke up Cinderella, and she got very angry at them. “Get out of my room NOW!!” responded Cinderella as she yanked out her earplugs. “B-but we don’t know what to wear!” wined Stepsister #1.

“Like I care! Go ask your sister! GOOD NIGHT!” Cinderella snapped.

“Oh but you don’t understand you see, there is the prince, who will not only dance with you at the ball, but he is deciding who to MARRY!” Stepsister #2 reminded Cinderella.

“If I lend you each ONE of my dresses will you just get lost?” said Cinderella.

“Yes! Can we choose?” asked Stepsister #1 politely.

“Whatever! I don’t care, just be quiet and don’t you DARE touch anything else of mine, or ill get you!” Cinderella pulled her eye patches above her eyes and snored off into a deep sleep.

At about noon, Cinderella woke up after a terrifying dream…well so she thought. Stepmother walked into Cinderella’s dark, spooky room.

“Cinderella, aren’t you going to the Royal Ball?” she asked.

“No! I don’t feel like it!” Cinderella said loudly.

Stepmother left the room quickly. Everyone knew to leave her alone when she was in a bad mood!

Cinderella had a very big headache and went for a walk in the garden. Suddenly, a bolt of lightening hit the ground. A thin lady jumped out of it.

“Hello Cinderella, I have been sent by your loving mother. I am your Fairy God Mother- Therapist!” she said.

She introduced herself, and her and Cinderella had a little talk, and got to know each other.

“I do want to change, but I don’t know how to!” said Cinderella.

“That’s what I’m here for!” replied Fairy God Mother- Therapist. “But I’ve got to go!” With a flick of her magical wand and a ‘Bipity Bopity Boop!’ she disappeared off into her land.

“I feel…different,” Cinderella said to herself. “Almost as if…I MUST CHANGE! Well, that’s what I must do!”

Cinderella decided to surprise the two stepsisters with a warm welcoming. As soon as the two daughters came in the door, before Cinderella could say anything, Stepsister #2 announced, “I’m marrying the Prince! The glove fit!” Stepsister #1 rolled her eyes and went up to her room. Cinderella felt bad for her.

The very next day, Stepsister #2 came running inside the house with tears all over her pale face. “H-he divorced me! All because the magical glove didn’t fit!” Just then, the Prince knocked at the door.

“Hello, I was just wondering if this glove would fit any other person in this house?” he asked curiously.

“Me! Me!” Stepsister #1 cried.

Well, it did fit, and the Prince took Stepsister #1 into his arms, and they galloped back to the palace in the fading, pink sunset. After about a year, Cinderella felt that she should go visit her stepsister. As soon as the Princes’ eyes met Cinderella’s, he fell in love with her. You see, Cinderella had changed over the year. Infact, she had become sweet and kind. That same cloudy day, Stepsister #1 got very mad at the Prince because she could see him falling in love with Cinderella. After a day or so, she divorced him, and went back home.

Cinderella sat by her window and looked at the stars. She watched the horses graze on the wet grass. Cinderella jumped up when she heard the sirens of the Prince come to her house. She heard the Prince on his grey horse gallop to the front entrance. Cinderella thought to herself, ‘What is going on?!’. While pulling on her fluffy robe and slippers, Cinderella ran downstairs almost tripping on the last stair, and opened the door

Just as Cinderella suspected, it was the Prince running to the door step.

“Cinderella, I have fallen in love with you. I’ve seen how you’ve changed so much over the year. Will you marry me?” the Prince said panting.

“Yes!” cried Cinderella as she jumped into his arms. Cinderella and the Prince ended up living happily ever after. On the other hand, the Stepsisters turned evil and started to hate Cinderella, at times they plotted to kill her. Even with all of this hatred towards her, Cinderella was, and stayed extremely nice forever.

Leor's draft #1

Doug in Uggs®

Once upon a time in a beautiful city called New York lived a very successful business man who had three sons. When he died, he left a will. His company was left to his eldest son, his mansion to his middle son and only his pet dog, Doug to his youngest son, Josh.

Josh sat under a shady oak tree, feeling very miserable and sorry for himself.

“What will become of us, Doug?” asked Josh in a weary, annoyed tone. To Josh’s complete amazement, Doug answered him. Josh owned a talking dog!

“Please don’t worry master” Doug said in a sure sounding voice, “Just listen to me and do as I say and you will be much richer than both your brothers!”

Now you see, Josh was very poor and had nothing to lose by listening to the dog so he did as Doug commanded him to do (even though he thought of himself as crazy for talking to a dog and letting a dog tell him what to do).

Doug commanded of Josh to get him a fine collar and some nice Uggs to go with his collar.

Later that day after Josh spent all of his remaining money on Doug, Doug set out to the mall to buy a pair of sunglasses, then he set off to the wondrous home of the celebrity to give her his present.

Obviously nobody had ever met a talking dog so Doug was sent to see the celebrity immediately.

Doug was sent into a room with a high ceiling and chairs with soft, velvet covering. The floor was covered with a hard, rough wood covering and as Doug waited for the celebrity to call for him to come in he thought of what he should say to her.

When Doug walked into the big room in which the celebrity was, he was fascinated by her great beauty.

“I heard that you had asked to see me” the celebrity asked

“Yes,” replied Doug “My master, Josh, sent me to bring this gift to you” continued Doug handing the package to the celebrity. Now, everybody knows that you shouldn’t take presents from strangers but the celebrity was so amazed of this talking dog that she just simply replied,

“Tell your master that I thank him and you can go”

The following day Doug bought a purse and once more brought it to the celebrity, with the same message: “This is from my master”

For several days, Doug went on bringing the celebrity very fine gifts.

One day, Doug heard a rumor that the celebrity would be coming into town to perform so he hurried back to Josh (who was barely surviving because he did not have very much food) and asked him to go swimming in the public pool.

“Why should I listen to you?” Josh asked in a disgusted tone, “thanks to you I have barely enough food to survive and every day I have to beg people for money”

Doug was not surprised by this reply so he simply reminded Josh of the promise he had made to him.

While Josh was swimming in the pool, Doug hid all his ripped, torn clothes. When he saw the celebrity’s limousine approaching, he started shouting for help.

“Help!” cried Doug “robbers have stolen my master’s clothes!”

When the celebrity recognized the dog, she immediately called to her maid to bring a fresh pair of clothes from her house.

“It must be made of the best fabric” said the celebrity “and it must be of the best cut, only the best will do for this dog’s master!”

Once Josh was dressed in his new clothes, Josh looked very handsome.

While Josh was getting dressed Doug ran ahead to the nearest mall and saw some open stores

“The celebrity is coming in her limousine and would surely want to come into the mall” Doug explained, “When she asks who this very fine mall belongs to, say it belongs to Josh the master of Doug, or I will send you all to court!”

As you all know Americans do not like to be bossed around, especially by talking dogs, and they very much did not like Doug’s idea so they sent him to the Pound.

When the celebrity passed by the mall she wanted to go in, as Doug had interpreted, and again as he had interpreted she asked who the lovely mall belonged to, obviously the storeowners answered that the mall belonged to the government.

Meanwhile, sitting on a log, was Josh waiting for Doug to come back and tell him what to do, just then the paper boy came with the daily paper, and Josh having nothing better to do took one and started reading.

To his great amazement, on the front page of the paper was the title: “talking dog now in the pound on account of threatening store owners,” and with that Josh completely lost it, he started tearing his hair and his clothes in rage shouting angrily: “that dog! I let a dog tell me what to do! How could I have done such a stupid thing!?!?”

Just then the celebrity drove by in her big stretch limousine. Now, the celebrity had never actually seen Josh, she had only heard about him from a talking dog and when she passed by the clothes she had given him were so torn and ripped that she didn’t recognize them either, so all she saw in Josh was a poor homeless man. Poor Josh watched in horror as the celebrity passed by him without noticing him.

Many years passed after that and the celebrity was becoming very famous. Unlike the celebrity Josh was suffering from many diseases and of starvation until it was his time to leave this world along with Doug who got bitten by a vicious dog very severely and passed away.

As you are probably wondering why Josh listened to Doug in the first place and got himself into that mess, well as a child Josh read many books but one in particular grabbed his attention right from the first page, it was about a poor boy who had a talking cat and because of his cat he was married to the princess, Josh was hoping the same would happen to him and he would live happily ever after, obviously that did not work. THE END

Draft #1

LIONS FOR LUNCH AND ZEBRAS FOR DINNER

On a beautiful sunny day Mouse was carrying a basket of cheese for lunch at school. He was walking by a beach house and he stopped and asked in a soft and shy voice, “ Hello, anybody there?”

A loud voice snapped, “ I eat lions for lunch and zebras for dinner and come in if you dare.” Mouse screamed and ran away to see Monkey, his best friend, and stammered, “ T-there’s a-a lo-oud vo-oice inside that house and it-it sounds re-ally scary. I was wondering if you could try to scare him away pl-lease?”

“ Of course, I have scared people away before so it should be easy to scare too.” exclaimed Monkey.

They walked to the house and Monkey did a huge loud growl and a loud voice said, “ I eat lions for lunch and zebras for dinner so come in if you dare.”

Monkey was so scared that Mouse and Monkey asked all of the animals at the beach to scare the loud voice. The animals were so scared except for Tiger. Tiger yelled at the loud voice that was scary and mean. A tall blue monster ran out of the house running awkwardly around the yard and he was so scared.

Tiger questioned all the animals, “ Where are you guys off to?”
Mouse said, “ We are all off to school down at the beach. Would you guys like to come with us?”

Tiger asked the monster if he wanted to go to school. Monster said “ Yeah, that would be great so I can make new friends.”

Monkey pleaded, “ let’s go, we don’t want to be late or Mrs. Dolphin will give us a detention.” All of animals laughed and laughed as they were walking to school.

snow white-continued

Snow White- continued- by Hana 6a

“Once upon a time lived a sweet, little girl named Snow White she was very loved, but one day her step mom tried to kill her...”

Okay, so you guys all know that story, right? Well, now I’m back in the palace with my husband, my father, the adorable 7 dwarfs, the looking mirror and my stupid, evil, ANNOYING step mom! And no, I’m not alone with my husband in a wonderful castle WITHOUT my step mom.

It has been 5 years, and now I finally feel like it is the time for me to get revenge on that Queen. I was thinking and thinking, but I had a blank out. Then, I got a great idea to ask my Step mom’s trusty looking mirror for help!

“Looking mirror, oh looking mirror, I want revenge on my step mother, but I have no idea what to do! Any ideas?”

“Yes, yes, how about you do exactly what your step mom did to you?”

“You mean send my hunter to kill her...?”

“Of course that is what I mean!!” replied the looking mirror.

“Well, since its you, the famous looking mirror, always with good ideas, I guess I will do that!”

The next day I sent my hunter to go kill my Step mom in the middle of the woody, leafy, grassy, forest, and of course I sent him to the exact emerald colored tree where she tried to kill me! If I was going to go through with this plan I was going to do it right!

“Excuse me, hunter, umm, why do you have a silver knife in your back pocket?” asked the Queen (step mom) anxiously while she and the hunter were speeding through the forest.

“I don’t know how to truthfully say this to you but, umm...you know what I’m just going to come out and say it! Snow White wants revenge, so she sent me to come kill you, but I’m not going to kill you! Because one day you and Snow White will have to resolve your issues.”

“Thank you for not killing me! It means the world! But what should I do now?”

“Go past the 7 huge hills and stay calm! Everything will fall into place!”

So, my Step mom went past the 7 huge hills (just like me) and then she finally found a place...

“I wonder who lives in this little cute shack...” said the Queen (to herself) as she was opening the door to the house.

While my mother was searching through the house she realized everything was by sevens; 7 plates, 7 beds, 7 chairs, 7 baths. The beds were small, large, tall, thin and wide. Each bed had a name imprinted on it the first was humble then mate, then silly, pettish, jolly, drowsy and the 7th was sniffles.

Finally after about 3 hours my Step mom met the owners of the shack...

“Excuse me! Who are you? and why are you in our house, you know this isn’t a community center, it’s the 7 girl dwarfs house!!!!!” said pettish furiously.

“Well, I’m the Queen, but my step daughter is mad at me cause...its embarrassing..I tried to kill her, because she was the fairest lady of them all and i wanted to be that. Now I have realized I shouldn’t have done that, but she is still mad...”

“I see..” said jolly curiously...

“So can i stay with you guys?”

“Sure,” said Silly, before anyone else could get a word in.

“Wait, do you know the 7 dwarfs by any chance?” asked Humble, Mate and Drowsy.

“Yes, yes I do. They love my step daughter, Snow White, but there not fond of me...”

“Oh you can for sure stay with us then, we DESPISE those boys!” said the 7 girl dwarfs.

“Thank you so much! I promise I will follow what ever you girls say.”

“You can do whatever you want just don’t let ANYONE in. You never know, it could be your step daughter...” said sniffles in a calm but scared voice.

The 7 girl dwarfs let my evil Step mom stay with them. She never thought that I knew about her staying with the dwarfs, but I knew...I even asked the trusty looking mirror for some more help!

“Looking mirror, oh looking mirror I need some (more) help! I know where my Step mom is! She’s alive and fine, living with the 7 girl dwarfs. What should I do?”

“Snow White, I already told you what to do!”

“Oh yah, do what she did to me...”

Just like what my Step mom did to me, I went into disguise as an ugly, old woman, and it was perfect because she didn’t suspect one thing!

“Knock, knock, knock” That was me, knocking on the door, of the 7 girl dwarfs house in the middle of the day, while they were at work!

“Hello? Who is it?” answered my Step mom through the window.

“Its me, the old woman selling goodies” I answered.

“I’m not aloud to let anyone in! So please leave.” replied my mother.

“Just have one of my apples, there fresh from the apple trees in my garden. It would make my day if you would have a little bit of the tasty white part” I said happily.

Right before my Step mom was going to eat the apple I just knew I couldn’t do this anymore! So I took off my disguise and told her the truth. By then the 7 girl dwarfs were already there. So I told them all how I was sorry. Also, I said that I wanted them to come to my palace (including my Step mom) and they could live with me! Instead of having to work every day in those dirty gold mines.

“That sounds great! Although we have a slight issue.” said the cute little dwarfs.

“What might that problem be?” I answered.

“The 7 dwarfs and us don’t get along very well. Long story short, 10 years ago we got into a fight about our gold mines, sense then we haven’t spoken...”

“Don’t worry about them! They have grown up and gotten way nicer, right mother?” I said.

“Actually my daughter is right, the dwarfs are much nicer now!” answered my mother in a friendly tone of voice.

“Pack your bags and lets get on the road!” I said while excited.

* * *

It’s been 2 years and a lot has changed! First of all, My Step mom and I love each other. I convinced the dwarfs that (both the girls and boys) are kind people and funny enough all 14 of them are married to one another; Bashful and Humble, Doc and Mate, Dopey and Silly, Grumpy and Pettish, Happy and Jolly, Sleepy and Drowsy, last but not least Sneezy and Sniffles, these are the new happily married couples! As for the rest of us, were fine to!

“And they all lived happily ever after in their palace. The end.”

Draft #1 of Hasel and Gretel and the Supernanny

Once upon a time there were two, no good, stinking rotten, horrible children who were VERY badly behaved. Their names were Hansel and Gretel. They lived in the countryside in England on the edge of a forest.
Now, their father always told them to never go into the woods. He used to tell them stories about wicked monsters that would eat you up in a second’s flash. But Hansel and Gretel, being terribly behaved children, went into the woods anyway.
Their feet went crunch, crunch as they walked in the pitch-black forest. They soon became lost and decided to sleep until morning and then start looking for a way back home.

Enter the Witch: “I always wear black. I look down and I see my nose. It has a big mole on it and on that, little tiny hairs growing. All my teeth have rotten. My hair is thin and gray. I have wrinkles on my face that a 200-year-old man wouldn’t have. I have been watching those children they call Hansel and Gretel, all their lives. I have been waiting for them. Nobody knows who I really am.”

When Hansel and Gretel woke up, Gretel cried, “ Oh Hansel! How are we ever going to get out of these woods?”
“Don’t worry Gretel”, replied Hansel calmly, “we’ll get out of here. Come, lets go try find a way home.”
For the next two hours, they wandered the forest, until suddenly the forest opened out into a clearing. In the middle of that clearing was a little house. In front of that house was an old, scary looking woman. The children cowered but shouted to the old woman, “You show us the way back to our house or we’ll beat you up!”
“Stop!” shouted the woman, holding out something that looked like a stick, but the children knew better.
“I have been waiting you for many years. You are here for a reason. You are here to learn to be good children. Some call me the Witch, some call me a Supernanny. Take your pick.”
“We’re not having any of it you old hag!” said Hansel. But there was magic afoot, and their fate was already cast. Hansel and Gretel started to back away but the Witch had already raised her wand and the trees and their branches moved together to make a shield of leaves that no one could get through. Hansel and Gretel had to listen.
“Come along now children”, said the Witch. And the children obeyed and followed her into the little house.

For the next while, it was as if time was suspended in that clearing. The children learned many things whilst with the Witch, a.k.a. Supernanny, for that was what they called her now. They learned the practice of loving and kindness, good manners, and how to obey and listen. They were sad and joyous when they had to go home. They knew they would miss the old Supernanny. They had learned to love her for the way she was. They said their goodbyes and the Supernanny, with a flick of her wand, sent them home again.


-Josha R.

Pascale and the Poutine draft 1

The defining sound of the crowd cheering Alexandre Bilodeau’s name was amazing. He had just won the first gold medal for Canada in the winter Olympics 2010! He was sprinting around the crowd high-fiving everyone with in arms distance. The shriek of the children’s in the crowd’s excitement was just making Alex the most blissful person in the world!

Who wouldn’t be happy? He has a wonderful family and is a proud Canadian! His mom, Dad and brother will always be cheering him on.

There was one thing in the entire world he wants that he doesn’t already have, and that is a wife. She has to be mesmerizing, fascinating and something... something about her that no one else has! Someone to stand by him through big wins and big losses.

Mr. and Mrs. Bilodeau want Alex to be happy, but they have one condition regarding his marriage. The lucky girl has to be French-Canadian. Alex wants to respect his parents, but he’s on a quest to find true love, no matter where she’s from!

As the Bilodeaus are getting ready for bed in their secret Vancouver home, Pascale Dubois is Downtown having the time of her life!

Pascale is downtown looking at the Olympic cauldron, it’s so beautiful, a real piece of art. Suddenly with Pascale’s bad luck, it starts to rain. Pounding drops of water falling like baby’s crying. Pascale is from Montreal so she is used to the rain, but not this much rain. So she decides it’s time to find her apartment.

After two hours of looking for her apartment she gives up and decides to see if anybody's house lights are on. Luckily she sees a glimpse of a bright light shining like a star turning off in a big but secretive house surrounded by colossal sized evergreen trees.

Pascale approaches the door slowly, not knowing what to expect. With her small frail hands she bangs on the door with all her might. The enormous door opens slowly. A feminine figure comes out of the shadow.

“Dear, what are you doing on my doorstep soaking at midnight?” asks Mrs. Bilodeau sinisterly.

“My apologies, I’m Pascale Dubois, I’m lost and I can’t find my way home!” Pascalle replies politely, starting to lightly cry.

“Please come in let’s get you some warm clothes and a delicious cup of herbal tea!” replied Mrs. Bilodeau now sounding friendly.

“Thank you so much Mrs....?” Pascale says as she sits down her wet body on the beautiful couch.

“Bilodeau!” says Mrs. Bilodeau.

“Bilodeau? As in The Alexandre Bilodeau’s mom?” asks Pascale in a surprised voice.

“Yes, why don’t you take a hot relaxing bath and then you can meet my husband and son Alex!”

“That would be amazing thank you so much for your generosity.”

After Pascale is finished bathing Alex, Mr. and Mrs. Bilodeau are all waiting for her in the big living room. When Pascalle walks in, Alex’s face expression turns from tired to Oh My Goodness she is mesmerizing. Her long blonde curly hair is stunning! For both of them it feels like they are the only people in the whole entire world. As if they were long lost soul mates finally finding each other.

As the night went on Pascale explained that she was here visiting from Montreal! It was her first night here and she couldn’t find her apartment!
The more Pascale talked, the more Alex was intrigued to listen more. She is fascinating!

It’s very late almost two a.m. and everyone is extremely tired from a long day. Alex, such a gentleman offers for Pascale to sleep in his bed and he’ll sleep on the couch. Pascale gladly excepts!

Mrs. Bilodeau doesn’t believe Pascale is French-Canadian and decides she will put a dish of poutine under seven mattresses for Pascale to sleep on. This test will show if she is a Real French-Canadian.

When all the Bilodueas are sleeping, Pascale is wide awake struggling to find a comfortable position in her bed. She can feel something under her bed that is mushy, but smells really good, smells like Montreal.

In the morning for breakfast they have a French-Canadian delicacy. Poutine, French fries coded in gravy and cheese curd. Pascale has had poutine before but she was smart, and she knew thats what she slept on.

“How was your sleep last night?” asked Mrs. Bilodeau knowing she slept on top of poutine.

“It was very generous of you to let me stay, but I think some sly woman must have snuck poutine under my bed!” Pascale responds trying to guilt Mrs. Bilodeau into confessing.

“Oh, that’s odd! I wonder who would have done that!” responds Mrs. Bilodeau.

Across the table Mrs. Bilodeau could see Alex staring at Pascale with amazement. She was mesmerizing, fascinating and something... something about her that no one else had!

“I believe you are from Montreal, and I know you love each other, so I give you my blessing!” Mrs. Bilodeau says enthusiastically.

“I do too!” Mr. Bilodeau says.

Alex got on one knee and proposed to Pascale. “Pascale Dubois, will you marry me, Alexandre Bilodeau?”

“Yes!” replies Pascale with excitement!

The wedding is fantastic! The beautiful white as snow dress on Pascale is mesmerizing! She is the most beautiful person in the world right now!

This is the best day of Alex and Pascale’s life! They are so happy to find true love! Now Alex can go on next winter Olympics and win Gold again, but now he’ll have a wife to share the glory with!

To remember how wonderful poutine can be, in Alex and Pascale’s new house beside his gold medal is a recipe for poutine! To Alex they are equally important!

Different things bring different people together, who would have guessed poutine would bring a gold medalist together with an ordinary young lady!

The Three rapping pigs and the Ruler wolf

Once upon a time there were three rapping pigs and there names were Rappo, Rappy and Rappster . Before they were all going to rapping history they were all talking to there 2nd ruler dad and he said

"Whatever you rap do it the best you can because that's how you get better at rapping in the world." the pigs sat at the table making the best raps they could think of. They went out of their rapping home and one pig rapped about love and one pig rapped about hatred and horror and Rappster rapped about rapping songs.

Two days later the rapper ruler wolf zoomed out of nowhere and he rapped

"If you don't stop rapping I'll take over your car I'm gonna rap rap rap till I'll blow you far" the ruler wolf owned Rappo and blew him away he went to Rappy and he said

"If you don't stop rapping I'll take over your car I'm gonna rap rap rap till I blow you far" sadly Rappy literally got his mind blown away and for Rappster he had a song so awesome that everyone in the world could hear it and thought it was beautiful but the ruler wolf could take it and he said

"If you don't stop rapping I''l take over your car I'm gonna" "O.k. O.k. your gonna blow me far well not today because I'm gonna blow you far hmm hmm I know you trying hard to blow me far but I know you just can't so I'll take your car even though your a wolf I can beat you so hard I'll go easy on you so you won't fall apart I can get you of my back because you dumb as a shack." The ruler wolf was amazed of good that rap was and he said

"Dude you sound so good I think I'll let you be on my side if I could be in your hood." Rappster agreed and they were best buddies till the end.

The Real Story

The Real Story

So you think you know this story. Most likely they just fooled you with a sweet version of it. Probably, by now you are ready to learn the truth. So, let me tell you the events as they really happened.

Krechnitz is a tiny village at the edge of a large and dark forest in the middle of Eastern Europe. A river ran through the middle of the village. At best of times Krechnitz was home to no more than two hundred families. Most of them were followers of the court of the Vishnitzer Rebbe. Also, all of them were really poor.

On the outskirts of town lived a family unlike any other. They were so poor they only had one bed, which they had to share between the four of them. They were most unfortunate. However, the two children were the luckiest kids in the world. They just didn’t know it yet.

From what I know, Mentl and Shmentl were quite a few years apart. Mentl was 11 years old and he had chocolate brown hair with bright blue eyes that shimmered in the light. Lets just put it this way: he was tall and handsome. His younger sister Shmentl was 7 years old. She had rosy cheeks and freckles all across her face. The thing that really made her stand out however was her long, fiery red hair!

The problem with Mentl and Shmentl was that they had set their minds to be pure evil!

They made a plan that they thought would make them powerful! Their plan was… to throw everyone’s food and water into the river running through the village. And so they did, without realizing they were not going to have any food for themselves either. All there was left in town was a single loaf of bread. This gave them another idea… let’s get rid of our parents, so we can have the bread all to ourselves! We can’t stand the idea of having parents anyway so it won’t be such a loss.

Obviously, this made their parents very sad. Time was running out for the parents to teach their children a lesson. Mentl and Shmentl came up with the plan to take their parents for a trip in to the dark forest. After sunset they would run back home, leaving their parents all alone, in the night, in the dark. They just needed to leave a trail of thorns in order to find their way back home. Now of course, the parents knew both this part of the fairy tale and the forest quite well, so they were not too concerned. Instead, they decided to lure the kids towards the house of the Fairy of Goodness.

The house of the Fairy of Goodness was entirely made of lollypops….Any kid would be excited, but not Mentl and Shmentl. You might have guessed by now these kids were different, very different. They must have been the only children in the world hating lollypops! The kids tried to trick the Fairy by pretending to be good, the Fairy was tricking the kids by pretending to be evil! “Hello, little children…Let me guess, you want to get rid of your parents, no? HAHAHAHAA!!!!” she shrieked. “Well, uh, yes” the kids answered. “Well, what are you waiting for? Give them a lollypop!” The children gave their parents a lollypop and right after the first lick the parents pretended to fall asleep. “Wow”, said Mentl, “how long will they sleep?” The Fairy answered “for a thousand years! In the meantime you can stay here, but don’t try to steal the treasure!” “The treasure?” the children asked? “We want that treasure!!” “If you want my treasure” said the Fairy, “you have to do exactly as I tell you, ask no questions!” “Agreed!” said the children. “Promise?” asked the Fairy, “promise!” said the children. “Alright, here is your first task”, said the Fairy. “I need you to go to the kitchen and wash all the dishes. I didn’t clean anything for three years and you have twenty-four hours to do the job!” The kids were about to say no, but that would make them loose the treasure….The kitchen was so dirty that they first had to clean the floor and the table and the sink before they could even start with the dishes. Because the kitchen had no running water they first had to go out to the river to get water, make a fire to warm it up and then start cleaning. Before they had finished the dishes they had to go back and forth to the river three times. They worked very hard, stayed up the whole night and just before running out of time finished cleaning the last plate. By now, they were totally exhausted and wanted to sleep. “Well”, said the Fairy “you can sleep, but then you first have to swipe the bedroom floor, clean the mattress and wash the sheets!”. “What??” asked the children we never did that!” “Do I hear you protest? Do you want to lose the treasure?” asked the Fairy. So, Mentl and Shmentl knew what to do and although they could hardly keep their eyes open fetched another pail of water and cleaned the bedroom floor and washed and dried the sheets. By the time they were ready to fall asleep they were hungry from all the hard work and asked the Fairy for some food. “You think this is a restaurant?” asked the Fairy. “If you want food, you go to the kitchen and make it yourself!” “But, we have never done this before” cried the children. “You want to lose the treasure?” asked the Fairy. And so Mentl and Shmentl made a fire, found some mushrooms in the forest and made themselves some soup.

By now, you must have gotten the picture. The Fairy made them work and work and work for weeks and weeks. Seven weeks to tell you the truth. And then, when the Fairy thought the time had come she asked them if they were ready for the final test. “Mentl and Shmentl, are you ready? Here comes the final and most difficult test of all. No one has ever succeeded yet…” “Of course” said Mentl full of confidence “anything you say!” The Fairy told them to put on their shoes and walk back to Krechnitz and not come back! “But…” tried Mentl “how does that make sense?” “Are you trying to question me Mentl?” asked the Fairy “do you want to lose the treasure?” And so the children went back in to the forest on the long walk back home.

When they came back to Krechnitz things had changed quite a lot. All the people of Krechnitz had left since there was no more food. Mentl and Shmentl had thrown everything in to the river. Their little house was dusty and dark and still and quite miserable. It made them feel lonely and scared. They missed the Fairy and to tell you the truth, they missed their Mommy and Daddy…

Without wasting a minute, they ran back in to forest and didn’t stop until they came back to the lollypop house. “We don’t want to be alone, we don’t want to be without you and we don’t want to leave our sleeping Mommy and Daddy behind! We don’t care about your treasure anymore! Please, don’t send us away” they cried, as the tears were rolling down their freckled cheeks. “You have just found the treasure!” said the Fairy of Goodness. “Go kiss your Mommy and Daddy on their cheeks so they will wake up. The biggest treasure in life is to feel love and I think you have learned this lesson today”.

The kids ran to their parents who had been waiting for them all this time. And they hugged and kissed and celebrated with the Fairy who had made a beautiful dinner with soup and chicken and potatoes and salad and Kugel for desert! The next day they said farewell and walked back to Krechnitz.

Today Krechnitz is a big city with more then one hundred thousand Jews and five big synagogues. And everybody fondly remembers the story of how Reb Mentl and Froome Shmentl had worked hard to make Krechnitz the most beautiful community of the middle of Eastern Europe!

little black dress - Draft #1

Little black dress

Once upon a time there lived a girl who was dearly loved by everybody especially by her grandmother. Her grandmother gave her everything she desired. So one day she asked for a little black dress and of course she got it. She loved that little black dress so much that she never removed it off her skinny, little body; so she was always went by ‘’Little black dress.’’
One day her mother gave her money and said ‘’ Come here, little black dress. Please take this money and go to the mall and get grandma groceries because she is getting to old to get them on her own. Make sure you stay on the yellow trail and make sure you dress very warmly with a hat, scarf, mitts and a jacket’’
‘’Okay mother. I will go right now’’ said the young girl
So little black dress got her coat and winter clothing and headed to the mall. When she arrived at the mall she started walking on the path as her mother instructed her to. Then she started getting very humid and starts dripping with sweat all over the dusty mall floor. So she takes off her hat, mitts and scarf and stuffed in her pockets.
When she arrived at the grocery store she took a minute to look for her grandma’s favourite fruits and vegetables. When she found them she paid the money that her mother gave her. while she was walking out off the store some dirty looking stranger jumped out at her.
The stranger said ‘’ hey little girl you know there is a candy store right over that is selling free candy just for today’’ said the disgusting looking stranger.
‘’ Ummm....... I don’t know if I should. My told me not to leave the yellow trail’’ said the little girl
‘’Garbage, you know this candy is amazing. You would really be missing out on the amazing delight of free candy’’ he said eagerly
‘’ I guess I can come right back to the path after I get some’’
‘’ that’s the spirit come with me’’ he said happily
After she got loads of candy she can’t find the yellow trail. And is worried that maybe just maybe she was lost in the mall. Then she starts crying so hard, she started stuffing and stuffing tissues in her coat pocket.
The crook says to himself ‘’ This is my best plan yet. This girl looks like she has tons of valuables in her pocket because of all the stuff that is bulging from her pocket. This is going to be easy. All I have to do is follow her home and just take everything away from her and just run.’’
But what little black dress doesn’t know is that the crook is following her. So she starts wondering, looking for a ray of sunshine because that is a sign that there is a way out of here. So finally she sees that ray of sun shine. She walks out and starts heading in the direction of her grandma’s house.
When she arrives at her grandma’s house she knocks on the door three times then she heard a voice ‘’ Who is it’’ said her grandma
‘’Its little black dress; your granddaughter’’
‘’Come in’’ she said in a quiet voice
So little black dress walks in the door and walks right up to the grandma’s bed. She hands her grandma the groceries. Then they heard another knock on the door.
‘’Who is it’’ said the grandma wondrously
‘’ little black dress. I’m here with your groceries
‘’but you can’t be little black dress because she is right here beside me’’ said the grandma confused
Well anyway the person opened the door and walks right in. It was the guy that told her about the candy and distracted her off the trail. ‘’why are you here’’ said the little girl ‘’I am here to collect all of those things in your pocket; all those valuables’’ Then little black dress gave him a confused look.
Then someone else came in from the door. It was the mail man ‘’ what’s going on here, what is a total stranger doing in your house grandma’’ ‘’I don’t know who he is’’ said the grandma in a confused look. ‘’ little black dress do you know him’’ said the mailman. ‘’Ya I saw him at the mall’’
‘’Mr what do you want from these innocent people’’
‘’I want that stash in the little girls pocket’’ said the crook anxiously
‘’ there is nothing in my pockets’’ said the little girl confused
‘’then what is bulging from your pocket’’ Then the little girl took out everything in her pocket. All there was was watery tissues and her hat, mitts and scarf.
‘’that is what you have in your pocket. That’s what I have been following you for all day. Shoot I wasn’t supposed to say that’’ said the crook
‘’ I am going to have to take you with me’’ said the mail man happily ‘’ don’t worry little black dress I am just going to take him to the police, well see you next time’’ ‘’ thank you for helping me, if it wasn’t for you he might have kidnapped me’’ ‘’Your welcome’’

Twisted Fairytale Draft 1

Thumbger
Once upon a time, far far away, there was a young woman who wanted a child so much that she faced her great fears of witches and went to get herself a little girl. This woman was quite young; she had silky brown hair and had long slender features.
When the woman arrived at the witch’s cottage, she was very nervous. “I came because I wanted a little girl. Could you help me?”
“A little girl is what you will have,” the witch replied with an evil cackle. The witch was bent and old, she had the typical wart on her nose and a pointed hat, she had long nails that made the noise of nails on a chalk board whenever she touched things and she had a little black kitten who would be very cute if not for the fact that it had only one eye, this would be enough to convince anyone that the witch was bad news, but not the woman, she wanted her little girl. The witch then handed the woman a little seed with the instructions of planting it and keeping it healthy so that when it bloomed, there will be a little girl. Over time, the little flower grew and blossomed it was a beautiful sky blue flower but as it got bigger, it also got browner. The woman was afraid she wasn’t taking care of it properly; it just kept getting more and more brown. When it bloomed, there was a little girl in there just as the witch had said. She was the smallest child the woman had ever seen - no bigger than a grown mans thumb.
When the woman saw the little girl’s face, she took a step back in surprise and let out a little gasp. It was the ugliest girl ever she had ever seen! That would explain why the flower had turned brown. The girl had a tiny pig nose, large watery eyes, a lopsided mouth that was too big for her face and these tiny ears that managed to stick out of her head like little peanuts.
Once the woman could catch her breath –it’s quite a shock to see such an ugly sight- she managed to think up a name, the name was Thumbger.
As the days passed by, the woman learnt to live with the ugly little girl. Every morning, Thumbger would wake up in the softest of beds, get dressed into her silk dress and have her breakfast – a thimble of nectar. In the evenings, she would lounge around in her little dolls house and play with her pet mouse. In the afternoons, she would eat supper –another thimble of nectar- and get into her pajamas. She would then get into bed, snuggle up, and sleep for 12 hours.
In the middle of the nigh- two weeks after Thumbger was born- Mother Toad was going around looking for a wife- for her son of course. When she looked in Thumbger’s window, she knew right away that she would make a wonderful wife for her son, such beautiful hair. The woman had brushed and washed it so that there was at least something appealing about her little girl.

When Thumbger woke up, she knew straight away that something was terribly wrong! Where was her beautiful bed? Where was her thimble of nectar she got every morning? Why was she on a lily pad?
Just then, the mother toad came into her view “You are to be wedded on the morrow,” mother toad said with a little wheezy cough.
“But mom!” the toad’s son whined “I don’t want to marry someone as ugly as her, I want to marry someone that has beautiful blond hair and dainty features. Not a toad!”
This was quite unreasonable seeing as he was a toad, but since he was very spoiled they threw Thumbger into the lake thinking that she would be able to swim.
“Oh dear,” thought the little girl. Whatever will I do? I never learned to swim!” Just then, her hand brushed up against something slimy and scaly, it was a fish! She grabbed hold of it as hard and she could, it was going up towards the surface. When she got up and could finally breath she could hear the fish puffing and panting, she quickly thanked him and swam to shore. When she looked back, she could see that the fish was a gorgeous green color and that the lake was swishing and swashing back and forth very gently. How could she have almost drowned?

Thumbger had been trudging through the snow for days on end but she wouldn’t give up, just one more step, she told herself, you’ll find someplace warm at the end of this. Finally she did just that, she stumbled upon Mrs. Mouse’s burrow. When Mrs. Mouse saw her- frozen and shivering, she was instantly ushered indoors where it was nice and warm and she quickly defrosted. As she was thawing out, Mrs. Mouse told her all about how Mr. Mole had been looking for a wife and that Thumbger seemed like a very respectable young lady who would make a perfect match with him.
“Oh my!” Mrs. Mouse breathed. “What happened to your face?”
“What do you mean? Nothing happened to my face!” Thumbger said defiantly. While she said this she looked in a mirror for the first time. “Oh!” She exclaimed in surprise. She had no idea that she was so ugly!
That night, Thumbger ran away from Mrs. Mouse and started to wander around a little town. She hid her face from everyone that she walked by and found, to her surprise, that everyone else did the same. What was even stranger was that when she did glimpse the face of a boy around her age, he was as handsome as could be. In fact, he was so handsome that she fell in love at first sight!
“Hello?” she asked shyly. “My name is Thumbger, what’s yours?”
“Jack,” he replied gruffly. “But don’t wear it out.”
“You’re very handsome,” Thumbger said. As you very well know, she didn’t really know how to converse with people as she hadn’t really been around many and hadn’t had any friends.
“Well I think you’re quite ugly so don’t think about trying to flirt with me!” Jack said with a knowing grin “Many a girl has asked me to dance or go out, but I have said no to every last one of them.”
Thumbger ran off without saying a word because she was so embarrassed about crying in front of the handsome Jack.
While she was running, she thought of the perfect plan… The perfect revenge.

Thumbger was just turning a road headed to the witch’s house. She was going to pick up the magic beans that she had ordered on the public pay phone the other day, she was also getting her baby giant. She was getting a baby giant because giants learn quickly but only when they’re young.
“Hello there,” whispered a voice out of the shadows. “I am the witch, and, I’m guessing that you are Thumbger?”
“Yes, I am.” Thumbger said nervously. “Well, I wanted to pick up my magic seed and my baby giant.”
“I know that,” snapped the witch, “Now where did you want them delivered?”
“I don’t want them delivered! I want them now!” Thumbger said, and might I add, she said it rudely.
“When people are rude, there is always a price to pay! Don’t think you will get what you want when you ask with spite!” the witch said while handing Thumbger the seed’s and the giants egg.

Many years later, Thumbger and her giant were living in the clouds (they had climbed the beanstalk) and they were actually quite happy but, Thumbger still hadn’t forgotten about her revenge on Jack. One night, she went down the beanstalk and collected some of their seeds. She then went to an old man and asked him to deliver them to Jack, who lived on number 3 road and the house number was 6789.
Thumbger waited and waited, she was waiting for a second beanstalk to grow and she was waiting for Jack to come and reclaim his family’s “long lost items” –they were fake gold and Thumbger got them made for 2 cents apiece.

When Jack stole the pieces of fake gold, he brought them down to his little town and everyone believed it was real. He became as rich as rich can be. Meanwhile, up at the Giant’s castle, Thumbger and the giant where living happily ever after.
Or not…


THE END

Goldy paws and the three little pigs

Once upon a time there lived a bear named Goldy Paws. Goldy paws loved taking walks in the forest she loved stepping on the gravel because it made crunch beneath her feet and she loved the smell of fresh air. One gorgeous summer day while Goldy Paws was enjoying the gorgeous day and didn’t notice how far she had wandered into the forest. When she noticed how far she had gone into the forest she began to feel tired luckily she soon came across a house made out of hay Goldy paws decided that she would stop for just a minute little did she know that it belonged to one of the three little pigs. She went in and sat down she began to feel itchy Goldy Paws forgot that she was allergic to hay. Her eyes began to water and her nose began to itch and she AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA CHOOOOOOED, the house down!!!! Goldy Paws felt very embarresed so she ran even deeper into the forest. Soon after she left a wolf came by the straw and said “Hey I’m supossed to Huff and puff and blow this house down but somebody has already been here that’s strange.” The wolf decided he would get to the bottom of this so he made his way down the trail fallowing Goldy paws tracks. Meanwhile Goldy Paws had been running through the forest and was extremely tired so she stoped in the nearest house she could find she finally came across a house made of sticks she sat down on a chair in the house but a stick kept poking her in the back so she pulled it out and the whole house came down around her. So for the second time that day she ran deeper into the forest. Meanwhile yet again the wolf found the house destroyed and said “ I was supposed to Huff and puff and blow this house down.” The wolf knew a short cut to the next house and was sure that he would find the person that was blowing the houses down and sure enough he did beat Goldy Paws to the house then he put his plan into action. When goldy pause came into the she said “finally a chair fit for me it even has fur on it!’ so she sat down and the wolf did eat her. And still to this day bears don’t wander to far into the forest.