The Story Pirates venture into the depths of an ocean trench where they encounter two bickering Riddlefish (Patti Harrison and Mitra Jouhari). Featuring two new stories: “The Fairy Without Wings,” a musical homage to Wilson Phillips about two fairies who find that what makes them unique can change the world forever, written by Franny, a 6-year-old from New York, and “The Competition Competition,” a story about a game show that begets other, weirder game shows, written by a 10-year-old from Canada named Grayson.
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Illustration by Camila Franklin
Original Stories
The Fairy Without Wings
by Franny, age 6, New York
Once upon a time there was a fairy. She was a normal fairy like you imagine today. But she had no wings.
She was a water fairy. She did have wings once, but they got spirited off to a waterfall.
From then on, she hid because she was worried the other fairies would make fun of her.
But then, one day, she met another fairy without wings, like her. She was a sun fairy.
From then on, she was never lonely again. Her friend and her played hide and seek together.
One day in their own good time, they found their wings. They were under a waterfall.
The water fairy’s wings were yellow, like sun sparkling on water, with yellow shadings.
The sun fairy’s wings were blue, like her friend’s hair.
And they all lived happily, with their new wings, that is, ever after. It turns out their talents were mixed up. That is why their wings got spirited. The water fairy’s hair turned pink.
And that my friends is how the rainbow was created.
The end.
Our adaptation of “Blue Night” was composed by Eric Gersen, produced by Brendan O’Grady and Eric Gersen with vocal arrangements and direction by Jack Mitchell.
The Unlucky Man
by Grayson, age 10, Canada
Hello! I am the announcer for the Competition Competition! My name is announcer and I’m here to announce the game. Four people come from four random planets and they come up with great ideas for competitions and the panel of judges work together to choose the best competition idea that becomes a competition on earth. Today, our four contestants are Bloop from the planet Bloop, Blop from the planet Blop, Gop from the planet Gop and Bob from Earth. They were told they each have half an hour to come up with their competition masterpieces, however that’s been shortened to the length of an ad break.
Ad break.Welcome back! Each one of our aliens and human friends has come up with their competition idea. Let’s hear what Bloop came up with.
Bloop: Hello, my competition idea is the 27 where four people pretend to be 27 and search for a job. Blop: My competition is the jacket competition where 5 people pretend to be jackets and try to advertise themselves to get sold.
Gop: International bunny competition where everyone comes and cuddles with bunnies while donuts drop on them. The person who eats the most donuts gets to keep all the bunnies! Bob: Pumpkin competition. Where you eat pumpkins. Because I like pumpkins. I told the judges they have half an hour to make their choice, but we’ll see them after the ad break. Ad break. Welcome back from the break! The judges have decided that the international bunny competition was terrible, the jacket competition was silly and the job search competition was just wrong. So the winner is Bob and his pumpkin competition because the judges also like pumpkins. The End.
