Horace Button
Fiction
Fang sat in the steaming mangroves watching the rush and backrush of greentides, and muttered to himself about dinosaurs. Why didn't they put on any underwear? Finished and indignant, he threw down the stick he had been breaking and stood to get his bearings. A beached and tilted grandfather clock marked the creepchannel entrance. Fang wandered in, kicking through gems.
UNCLE DERRINGER
An arm like that of a giant green spider ran from the cellar door to the bottom of the stairs. Blue had to step over it to get to the living room. He measured its growth by counting the thick hard elbows - in a few days the arm was half-way up the stairs and another, still thin and yellow, had started its way through the cellar door. Blue heaped salt on the new shoot and sat fretting in the other room as a strange, constantly high-pitched squeal sounded from the cellar. Something began to thud and lash at the floorboards, knocking waves into the carpet. Blue stood and walked across the thundering floor to the kitchen, removing his diary from the fridge. Then putting on his hat and coat, he stepped out of the front door as the living room carpet bulged and split like an overripe melon.
MONTY COOGER BUYS A BARN
'Why am I jousting?' Ally remarked, frowning down at his horse and armour. ' What am I doing here?'
'Hey!' he shouted to a passing squire. ' There's fruit on my lance!'
'Make it yourself', sneered the squire indignantly, ducking into a tent.
'Woahh!' roared a knight in red, smashing Ally from his horse and dismounting to hold a sword to his artery.
'You're energetic', Ally remarked, flustered, and the red knight hollered with laughter.
'But not sensible', added the knight and Ally was totally lost for an answer
All by Horace Button.
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