Diet Coke and Mentos
by Khaled, Alex, Sebastian, ages 11, 10, and 12
Written during It's Alive! Stop Motion Animation, taught by 826NYC
April 2009
We close in on a king walking in the woods. He is singing.
KING
(singing)
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
He sees two jesters roasting marshmallows.
KING (CONT'D)
Pardon me, sirs, but I have come from my white castle. That travel has been very long, and I am very parched. Do you have any refreshments?
Double Trouble
by Noah W., age 11
Written during Gumshoes on the Mean Streets, taught by 826NYC
March 2009
Do you dare to read?
It's a cloudy day at 12:00 on the dot, when I get a call. It is Lieutenant Jones on the phone.
"Dark Eye, the mayor has been shot. But not to worry--it was a decoy!" His voice is eager with fear. I have been working with this Gee for some time now.
When Mac and Peter and The Stranger Fell
by Ronald, age 7
Written during Drop-In Tutoring
September 2009
One time there was a wizard chasing after two brothers, Mac and Peter, who were different kinds of people, short and different colors. The wizard had evil eyes and a three inch-long wand. Mac and Peter got a shield to protect themselves from the wizard’s magic, so they wouldn’t get hurt. It was raining. A green stranger, who was also short, came to help Mac and Peter. He connected the bottom of his sheild to the top of the brothers’ shield to make one big wall.
A Cheater Named Turquoise
by Darious, Corey and Khaled, ages 9 and 10
Written during Drop-In Tutoring
December 2007
Once there was a man named Turquoise. He had red hair, and he always wore turquoise because he was on a baseball team called Rockets to the Moon. The team played on the moon, which was dangerous, because if you lost a match, everything went black, another player crashed into you, and you flew into space forever and ever. This was called Sudden Death.
The Revolution of the Green-Haired Bacon
Written for a Storytelling & Bookmaking field trip with Ms. Clements's 3rd-grade class from Berkeley Carroll
3/5/08
Once upon a time there was a bacon factory. And next to this bacon factory there happened to be a nuclear waste facility. One day, an unfortunate strip of extremely crispy bacon fell into an open vat of nuclear waste and when he crawled out, he had thick head of green hair. He thought to himself and decided to call himself Porkenstein von Butch.
An Informal Chat with Brendan, Creator of "Utencil Boy"
August 2005
826NYC: We're reprinting Issue 4 of your Utencil Boy comics series, "Super Ultimate Utencil Man Vs. The Perfect Person" in the new issue of the 826NYC Review. Is that one of your favorite comics you've made?
B: [Long pause] Yes. Yes it is.
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