The Plan from Hand

Written for a Storytelling & Bookmaking field trip with Ms. Forsman's 2nd-grade class from The Berkeley Carroll School

3/16/06

Once there was a magical clock named Hand. He was tiny but he had long legs and a funky hairdo, and he was very mischievous. In a squeaky voice he liked to talk about doing extremely mischievous things. He lived in a birdhouse with dumb mischievous ideas all over the walls.

Leather the Watch was Hand the Clock's best friend and he liked to help people clean. Leather was even rounder than Hand and smelled of broccoli. And though Hand had invited Leather to his birdhouse, Leather lived in a doghouse by himself.

Their favorite thing to do together was take rocket trips on rainy days. They rode their rocket all the way to the sun so they could get suntans. On their rocket rides they would meet their friend Cookie. She was a sunster (a hamster who lives on the sun) and wore a firesuit so she wouldn't get burned.

Even though Cookie lived in a really hot place, she sometimes got lonely because Leather and Hand only visited her on rainy days. One day, when Hand and Leather visited Cookie, she said in her really low voice:

"I'm really lonely. I wish I had a friend by my side to play with when I get lonely."

"You know, Cookie," said Leather in his rough and tumble voice, "I sometimes get really lonely too. Especially when Hand's doing all those mischievous things."

"I see a connection forming here," Hand said to himself. "I do not like this connection. Maybe I should go to work and come up with a plan." Then he turned to Leather and Cookie and said, "That's fine. I'm just going to go back to Earth by myself." Then he turned around and let out a cruel, evil laugh before riding back to Earth on his rocket.

Soon, Leather and Cookie were having a wonderful time eating pepperoni pizza. Leather was even teaching cookie how to tell time, and Cookie had taught Leather how to drink flames.

"I love this," Cookie said in her deep voice.

"Yeah, I wanna stay here for the rest of my life," Leather said in his thuggish, hardcore voice.

While they were talking and enjoying themselves, out of nowhere Hand appeared and then...

Endings by Austin & Max