A couple of months ago I had a blog post of stories by my son, who was four at the time. He really enjoyed the process of writing those stories with my help, and loves to share them and show off. Today while I was working (okay, I’ll be honest, today while I was procrastinating) he ran around the house for five minutes shouting that it was time for me to work on my writing before eventually carrying my laptop to me. At which point he said that ACTUALLY I had to help him write a story. “Just one story,” I told him, “then you’re right, I do have to work on my own writing.”
”One story,” he said, “I promise.”
Anyway here’s all four stories he asked me to help him write today. Fortunately for my patience, two of them were rather short, haha.
THE GHOST IN THE SILENT HOUSE
by G.R. Dotson
This story is dedicated to my brother, my favorite friend.
A long time ago, an old lady was in a silent house. The house moved in the sky on the wind. When she needed to go grocery shopping she rode her magical pony from the house to the ground, and back again.
One day she came home on her magical pony, and her house wasn't silent anymore. There were noises, footsteps, everywhere. At first she thought maybe her pet lizard had escaped like it did one day before. But she heard a sound like hair brushing, and lizards don't have hair, so she knew that wasn't it.
She decided to investigate. She went upstairs to investigate but saw nothing. She heard it downstairs then. But when she went downstairs to look, she saw nothing again.
It had to be a ghost! She went to her magical pony and grabbed her groceries. At the store earlier she'd gotten a can of Ghostbuster Beans. When she threw the beans at the ghost it went away forever.
THE KILLER FLY
by G.R. Dotson
This story is dedicated to my whole family in this house.
The sewers were full of snakes, rodents, and cockroaches, and they were all hungry. They smelled a house full of trash, and the trash had fruits in it. The bugs went into the house first and ate all the fruits. The rodents went next and ate all the bugs. The snakes went last and ate all the rodents.
A killer fly made a sickness in the city that spread to all the houses, so they filled with trash, and the same thing happened in all those houses. It was a happy ending for the snakes.
THE WHOOSHING WIND
by G.R. Dotson
This story is dedicated to everybody in this city, even Aunt Courtney
Far away on the Pacific Ocean, there were ghosts whooshing the wind.
The ghosts were angry that someone accidentally teleported into the monster world. They were so angry that they snuck out to get rid of everyone.
But they came out at the ocean and saw a boat with an engine. G.R. and Courtney were on the boat, ready to hunt the ghosts.
Luckily, G.R. and Courtney trapped the ghosts all in a box and got rid of them.
THE DUBATA VAMPIRES
by G.R. Dotson
This story is dedicated to my brother and sister because I love them so much
In a basketball court in a park in the city, thirteen people fought thirteen vampires.
The vampires came straight out of Dubata, the monster world, where you can only go with a portal. The vampires left Dubata because they wanted people to be nice after they saw some people fighting an old lady.
The thirteen vampires didn't know that the old lady was the one who started the fight, because she was a monster of some kind, too. She was a zombie vampire who could change form.
She started the fight to trick the thirteen vampires into coming out of Dubata to get rid of the thirteen vampires so that she could go wherever she wanted.
Once they figured out her plan she fought them with a sword.
It took three hours to finish the fight. When she was finally done the thirteen vampires were gone and she could do whatever she wanted.
It wasn't a good day for anybody else, but it was a happy ending for the pretend old lady.