create

I've got two new creative projects going (which may end next week when classes start back). I'm writing a short novel for kids. I write one or two pages a day and Braden critiques them when he gets home from school. I'm also re-purposing some furniture to be our organizational bail-out for all our papers lying around the house.

First, I got three night stands. One I already "owned" (it was mine growing up). I bought the other two. Two of the three worked close to perfect. The idea is to stack all three on top of one another to create a part-bookcase, part-filing cabinet.

I'll post more pictures as things develop and may post my rough draft chapters if anyone is interested.

FB and art

My uncle Dargan and I created a page on Facebook to promote his artwork. It's been a great kick in the butt for me. I even worked on a new story today (with the help of Braden, my editor). It's funny how when we help one person succeed, it moves us forward as well.

Braden's prize

Braden won first place in the literary competition for the Bainbridge Artsfest. He still hasn't let me read the story--he says it's about a zoo. He'll be rewarded today at Bainbridge College.

The Murdurers

Chapter 5 The War

The three men were surounded by aliens. Suddenly a phone appeared beside them. They called the police, the navy, the army, and the air force. When they got to the space ship they surrounded the space ship and some navy people went to get the men out. When they returned they had the three men with them. The Veterans closed the door to the space ship and got their dinamites ready and befor anyone knew it Kabooooooooooom. The whole space ship exploded.

The end

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Chapter 4 The rezerection

The three men made their way into the space ship and entered. Inside there were tons and tons of things. There were spiders, macanical claws, lazers, ect ect ect. back at the explosion the build ruins started to move and up from the bottom of that stff came the aliens. Meanwhile the three men had found a bunch of blue peach like things that had five eyes, five legs, and two arms. suddenly the ship started to shake, the floor came apart and dozens of aliens came up.

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Chapter 3 The explosion

Those three men bougt one million dinamites. Then they brought those dinamites back to their house and they got the traps ready and waited. Just then the space ship landed. The aliens came into their house and KABOOM. The house exploded, but the three men got away just in time. The aliens were dead.

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Chapter 2 The Return

The next day nothing was unusuall three men went to the store to buy a teliscope. When they bought the teliscope they looked through it they saw a space ship coming twards their village! It was huge how could they stop it? They thought and thought but they couldn't figure out how to stop it. Just then one of them had an idea, "Lets go to the store and buy some dinamites." "Good idea," said another. So they went to the store and bought some dinamites.

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Chapter 1 The Shadow

It was a peacefull day in Sunnyville. Everyone was happy... but then a big shadow cast over the little village. Everyone was scared. They ran into their houses, and then the shadow was gone and everyone was very, very suprised. Everyone wondered what it was.