I had plans to delve into my Minecraft world creation as a short filler post. Looking over the years of obsessions with decorative tunnelling in both my creative and survival worlds, any hopes of "short" vanished immediately.
Then I remembered my nephew's Minecraft story. When I went looking for it, I found his "fractured fairy tale" instead, which is a much better representative of showing the family genes shining through. It has Minecraft references too.
He wrote this in second grade. N-joy!!!
The Three Little Pigs and
the Big Bad Problems
By Morgan Luer
Once upon a time in New Jersey there were 2
pigs. Their names were Piggy and
Pigglesin. Piggy and Pigglesin were
brothers and they were pigs. One night in the winter it snowed a lot. They made
a pig out of snow. They put two rocks for eyes. They also put seven rocks for
the mouth and two for the nostrils. Then they put ten on the end that made a
spiral to create a tail. It made some magic sparkles and then it came to life.
They called him their third brother, because they wanted somebody else to play
with, and named him Snow.
They all stayed in their house and played
together for a year. After that their Mom said they had to go out on their own
because they were getting too big for the house and it was too crowded in the
house.
They all left together and traveled west to
California. They were there for only two days when Snow started to melt;
because “Snow” wasn’t just his name, he was also made of snow. Snow whined and yelled “It’s
TOO HOT here!"
Pigglesin agreed “YES! I am really hot too.”
But Piggy said “It’s just right for me.”
So Piggy chose to stay in California and build himself a house of sand. He added a trap door made of cacti so that
only he knew how to get in and out safely.
He knew Pigglesin and Snow would be leaving but he could talk to them on
the phone so he was happy in his sand house in California. He even built a sand car so he could
travel.
Pigglesin and Snow went to North Pole,
Alaska. Snow said “This is just right
for me.” He invited Pigglesin to stay
with him. But Pigglesin said “I’ll help you build a house but this place is
still not cold enough for me!” They made a big house made of ice with a trap
door made of blue ice blocks that only they knew how to enter and exit safely.
Snow was very happy there. He even built
an ice car so that he could travel. Soon Pigglesin left. He traveled all the way to Antarctica. “This is just right, for me.” he said. He
stayed and built a house of snow, with a snow door, that only he could
find. He built a snow car so he could
travel. He was very happy there until he
heard giant footsteps approaching the house. It was a giant mutant penguin, it
had smelled Pigglesin and wanted some bacon.
“I WANT BACON, NOW!!!”
screamed the giant mutant penguin. Pigglesin tried to defend himself. He took out his enchanted diamond sword, but
he could not hurt the penguin because it was too strong. Pigglesin ran back inside to hide, and called
Piggy and Snow for ideas of what to do next.
Piggy said, “Just hide until it
leaves”. Pigglesin hid under his bed,
but the giant mutant penguin wouldn’t leave.
Pigglesin was very scared, he cried out “THAT
DIDN’T WORK!” “Snow, do you
have any ideas?”
Snow replied “If you can get away, you can
come live with me. There are no penguins
in Alaska.”
Pigglesin thought that sounded like a
great idea. “It’s too cold for me here
anyway. I thought it was just right, but
I’m freezing all the time.” Then he
built a decoy pig out of snow and while the giant mutant penguin was trying to
get bacon from that, Pigglesin snuck away, traveling all the way back to Alaska
to live with his brother Snow.”
While all that was going on, Piggy was
finding he had troubles of his own - avocados. He called his brothers to
complain. “I am so tired of
avocados. I don’t like how they
taste.”
Pigglesin tried to be helpful but just
wanted to get off the phone quick “Why don’t you just eat something else? I
really can’t talk right now, I’m escaping from a giant mutant penguin.”
Piggy answered “I can’t because everything I have tried to eat has
avocados in it, even the pizza!”
But Snow was chillin’ billin’ diddley
dillin’ and said “Soooo… Why don’t you come live with me? There’s no avocados
in what I make.”
Piggy thought that was a great idea so he
hung up the phone, jumped in his sand-mobile and drove to Snow’s house.
Time passed by fast. The pig brothers were really, really, really
happy to live together. They found out
that it was more important to them to be together than to have the temperature
be “just right”. Things were going well
until one night when someone stole the ice blocks from their house. It was an invisible person, looking for a
place to live. The person tried to come
in the door but couldn’t get past the trap.
Since it couldn’t get in, it stole the house piece by piece. Suddenly
Piggy and Pigglesin were both freezing.
Piggy asked “Does anyone else feel a draft?” Piggy and Pigglesin started to panic.
Snow thought “My brothers must be crazy,
yes we have a problem, but there’s always a solution.” He started digging. He grabbed his supply of
ladders, he put a trap door at the top of the hole and put the ladders in the
hole. At the bottom of the hole he made a tiny room. He called to his brothers “Hey Guys! Come
down here, you’ll be nice and warm in here.”
His brothers said “Yes” and came down.
They stayed there for the night.
When they woke up they had a discussion.
Snow said to Piggy and Pigglesin “Why don’t we go back to New Jersey; sometimes
it is cold, sometimes it is hot, and sometimes it is just right. But no matter
what the temperature, Mama is always there.”
Piggy and Pigglesin said “That’s a great
idea!”
Pigglesin added “And there’s no penguins
there!”
Piggy agreed and said “And they don’t put avocados in everything
either."
Snow replied "There's also no
invisible people in New Jersey, at least, I've never seen one."
They traveled back to New Jersey by
plane. When they got there they went to
Mama Pig’s house. They knocked on the
door. When Mama answered they said, “Mama, we love you and missed you. Can we build a house in your backyard so we
can see you more often?”
Mama thought this was a good idea so she
let them do it. She had missed them too. They built a big house in her
backyard. They each had their own room
in the house. They could set the temperature to whatever they wanted in their
rooms so they were all “just right”, and they were happier than ever because
the family was all together again.
Note from Jeff- This is my favorite line: “Why don’t you just eat something else? I really can’t talk right now, I’m escaping from a giant mutant penguin.”
I will try to work it into conversation whenever possible.
2 comments:
Thank you so much for posting his story. He was both excited and stunned that you put it in your blog. He also laughed for about 10 minutes when I read him this line from you...
Note from Jeff- This is my favorite line: “Why don’t you just eat something else? I really can’t talk right now, I’m escaping from a giant mutant penguin.”
I will try to work it into conversation whenever possible.
GLad he was excited, thank you for sending it in the first place.
His style made me think of Jake Johannssen.
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