Stories and reading

Stories
to keep.

One original story, a short close for bedtime, and a page to write. AJ.Jerrisa and AJ.Jerrick stay ordinary children.

Under a lamp, AJ.Jerrisa draws a paper boat and AJ.Jerrick watches one float in a puddle beside a leaf.

Original story

The puddle with a boat in it

After rain, AJ.Jerrisa found a paper boat already in the puddle by the step. She drew the puddle first, then the street, then an arrow for where the water wanted to go.

AJ.Jerrick knelt and pushed the boat with one finger. It turned when it met a crack. “The street is a river with a bad map,” he said.

They followed the water to a drain. AJ.Jerrisa wrote the word for that drain in the margin. AJ.Jerrick dropped a dry leaf in and counted the seconds until it vanished. Then they went inside, because the story was finished and their shoes were not.

Bedtime

The last line

The boat is still. The question can wait until morning. Two minds. One world. The wonder keeps.

Writing

Six lines

Who is there. Where they stand. What they notice. What they try. What changes. What they write in the margin. Read it aloud to someone in the room.