Ookie Spookies and comely tentacles
Aug. 4th, 2009 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmymoonSO I have the cutest idea for a children's book series:
A little mummy who is claustrophobic, and his friends: the vampire who is afraid of the dark, and the witch who is afraid of heights!
The wolfboy is afraid of haircuts, and the Swamp Thingie is afraid of taking a bath. The baby zombie eats only Captain Crunch for breakfast, despite his mother's protests. The bitty Yeti hates to be alone. The little tiny devil refuses to take his violin lessons!
The skeleton is a story for slightly older readers (the lucrative YA market) because, you see, the skeleton thinks he is fat.
"But what," Cory asked, "Would be the ghost's problem?"
"He... um... he's... afraid... of... OH WAIT, it's so obvious. He's BOO-limic!"
"..."
"He re-GHOUL-itates his food!"
... It should also be noted that when Cory was getting ready to leave for work today, I apparently told him I had something urgent to tell him -- and then gestured hand-scrabbling at the air, pronounced "OCTOPUS MAIDEN," and fell back asleep. I may or may not have been having a dream about Geordi LaForge teaching me to ballroom dance at the time, so I'm not really sure why the Octopus Maiden was important, but I remember that she was!
A little mummy who is claustrophobic, and his friends: the vampire who is afraid of the dark, and the witch who is afraid of heights!
The wolfboy is afraid of haircuts, and the Swamp Thingie is afraid of taking a bath. The baby zombie eats only Captain Crunch for breakfast, despite his mother's protests. The bitty Yeti hates to be alone. The little tiny devil refuses to take his violin lessons!
The skeleton is a story for slightly older readers (the lucrative YA market) because, you see, the skeleton thinks he is fat.
"But what," Cory asked, "Would be the ghost's problem?"
"He... um... he's... afraid... of... OH WAIT, it's so obvious. He's BOO-limic!"
"..."
"He re-GHOUL-itates his food!"
... It should also be noted that when Cory was getting ready to leave for work today, I apparently told him I had something urgent to tell him -- and then gestured hand-scrabbling at the air, pronounced "OCTOPUS MAIDEN," and fell back asleep. I may or may not have been having a dream about Geordi LaForge teaching me to ballroom dance at the time, so I'm not really sure why the Octopus Maiden was important, but I remember that she was!
