Writing - Juvenilia
Dec. 29th, 2009 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vcmwI spent some of Christmas at my mom's house going through boxes of old saved paperwork that she'd put aside for us. It's very odd to see the chickens, scarecrows, Santas etc. made out of construction paper and wall paper and cotton balls and so forth that you made 20+ years ago all folded up and stored. All of my elementary school report cards, childhood immunization records. That sort of stuff. The odd journals that we kept in 2nd grade so that the teachers could write back to us while we practiced our sentence and paragraph skills.
I'm still looking for the notebooks with the novels I wrote in 3rd grade, but I found the first short story I wrote down, in 2nd grade. It was from a dream I had. I thought it was silly enough to share.
It was called "A Dream of Wonder." It's reproduced behind the cut with all original spelling, homonym errors, and capitalization issues. You can't see the little puffy clouds and strange brown lumpish mountain, but that's it.
Cover: A Dream of Wonder by Virginia
Title Page: A Dream of Wonder, dedicated with love to M. M. W.
Story:
On the enchanted Isle of Avalon King Arthur and Ogier The Dane were sitting with there feet up, when all of a sudden a bell began to ring.
It rang and rang until they sprang up crying, "What can be going on?" for they both knew that that bell rang only when something very strange had happened. They ran to the magic screen which surrounded the inner parts of the island. Then they saw me on the other side.
I was weeping. They asked me, "Why do you weep." I answered, "I weep because I can not get in." They asked me how I got there. I said, "I got here because of a fairy's gift." They let me in.
After a while I said, "I've had a lovely time but I must leave now." I put on my silver shoes and and clicked the heels three times click, click, click and I was gone.
The End.
Back Cover: Island of Dreams Inc.
So yes, my first short story was a) based on a dream, b) starred me as an unnamed Mary Sue, and c) was Bullfinch's Mythology / Wizard of Oz crossover fanfic!
I'm still looking for the notebooks with the novels I wrote in 3rd grade, but I found the first short story I wrote down, in 2nd grade. It was from a dream I had. I thought it was silly enough to share.
It was called "A Dream of Wonder." It's reproduced behind the cut with all original spelling, homonym errors, and capitalization issues. You can't see the little puffy clouds and strange brown lumpish mountain, but that's it.
Cover: A Dream of Wonder by Virginia
Title Page: A Dream of Wonder, dedicated with love to M. M. W.
Story:
On the enchanted Isle of Avalon King Arthur and Ogier The Dane were sitting with there feet up, when all of a sudden a bell began to ring.
It rang and rang until they sprang up crying, "What can be going on?" for they both knew that that bell rang only when something very strange had happened. They ran to the magic screen which surrounded the inner parts of the island. Then they saw me on the other side.
I was weeping. They asked me, "Why do you weep." I answered, "I weep because I can not get in." They asked me how I got there. I said, "I got here because of a fairy's gift." They let me in.
After a while I said, "I've had a lovely time but I must leave now." I put on my silver shoes and and clicked the heels three times click, click, click and I was gone.
The End.
Back Cover: Island of Dreams Inc.
So yes, my first short story was a) based on a dream, b) starred me as an unnamed Mary Sue, and c) was Bullfinch's Mythology / Wizard of Oz crossover fanfic!
