Guy: “Hi! I am Guy Stewart and I teach a “Writing to Get Published” class for West Suburban Summer School! My 15 students this year are the best students I have ever had.”
Narrator: “Guy Stewart is flying on a plane to meet his granddaughter.”
Guy: “I better get on the plane if I don’t want to be late!”
Narrator: “When Guy arrived at his granddaughter’s house, he knocked on the door. The door opened and standing there was his granddaughter!”
Granddaughter: “HI GRANDPA!!!!!! OH MY GOSH! COME ON IN!!!!!!”
Guy: “Coming! I got published to analog. Let me show you.”
Granddaughter: “COME AND EAT GREEN BEANS! WE HAVE JUICE BOXES TO REFRESH YOUR THROAT AS WELL!”
Guy: “Okay… hmm…My throat has been feeling worse for wear.”
Granddaughter: “YUMMY, AM I RIGHT? EAT YOUR FOOD!!!!!!!!”
Narrator: “Guy ate his food and then came a knock at the door.”
Granddaughter: “YOU BETTER GO GET THAT!”
Narrator: “They're at the door were the judges for the Olympics!”
Judges: Hello, thank you for eating your green beans and drinking your juice boxes. You have won gold, silver, and bronze medals in the Olympics!!!!!!!!!!”
Granddaughter: “THAT'S GREAT! OH MY GOSH! YEAH! GREAT JOB! YOU ATE YOUR FOOD AND YOU GOT DIFFERENT COLORED COOKIES! YEAH! WHOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOO! OH YEAH! THIS IS GREAT! LET ME HAVE SOME OF THE COOKIES, OR ELSE. YEAH! ALL RIGHT!”
Guy: “Ummm, thanks? I will have to write about this sometime.”
Narrator: “It was a great day for Guy Stewart.”
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(They leave and go on to the next product)
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Narrator: “Our last product we would like to show you from the wondrous GREAT PRODUCTS TODAY is, The Book With No Story. You really wi—“
Customer: “OH MY GOSH! THAT’S MY FAVORITE BOOK!!! THE BOOKS HERE ARE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! Just a reminder: BUY HERE OR YOU WILL BE SAD YOU MISSED OUT. And I believe I read in The Book With No Story that, YOU WILL BE DOOMED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!!! (Just kidding, relax.) Buy it here today!! You better!” Art Critic: “The blending on Polar Bear’s fur is just ethereal and don’t get me started on the snow. (Softer, the longer the Narrator and Customer are away from the set) The amount of time he must have spent on each snowflake is just…(Art Reviewer continues to talk as the Narrator and Customer walk away and the commercial ends.)
Do you know why the world is falling apart? A big part of the reason for global warming is that we are using way too many non-renewable energy sources.
But then, prices are going way up. So we need more non-renewable energy sources. Because all people on earth have been using non-renewable energy sources for a VERY LONG TIME, so we have all the equipment for non-renewable energy sources. And all the equipment for that takes a lot of money.
But we need to have all these renewable energy sources to KEEP THE WORLD OK by 2050:
27,000 more gigawatts. But that’s about 33 TRILLION bucks. That is SO MUCH MONEY to keep the world OK.
But thanks to the Ukraine and Russia wars, prices are going to be taken way up. So to keep THE PEOPLE ok, we need more non-renewable.
So, this all has to get down to one thing: stop the Russian attack. Because THAT is the REASON prices are going WAY UP.
So we need PEACE to HELP THE PEOPLE stay alive. But we need RENEWABLE energy sources to keep the WORLD alive. But the question is: How??
Three SOLUTIONS. . . .
You may not be able to do much YET. But you can do some simple things in your life: You can plant a few trees. You can help clean up your community. You can use LESS PLASTIC. You can reduce, reuse and recycle. You can reserve water. And you could also even use long-lasting light bulbs. And anything else you think can help.
You make personal essays about stopping the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Maybe interview a person who also wants to stop the conflict. If you possibly can, make a movie about the sadness this is causing. And if you can interview someone from Ukraine, that would sure help.
Figure out some balance between non-renewable and renewable energy sources. Figure out which renewable source we have the most of, and try to send letters or essays, maybe even emails to get the people who build renewable energy sources to build more of that one.
Sahara ran away from Quicksand. The worst dragon ever.
Why so bad? Because she could RUIN SAHARA’S LIFE!!
Because her mom AND DAD were part of the queens’ authority. Quicksand was bound to be a Sand Turner.
Sand Turners were dragons loyal to Queen Sand, they were not servants, (though Sahara wanted them to be.) They were dragons who went around and arrested the thieves, though thieves were not how Sahara would put it. She liked to call them, (or herself) Scavengers instead.
But today, Sahara was only two.
“Heyyy, Quicksand!” She said cheerfully, the diamonds in her scales glittering in the sunlight. “Wanna play?”
“Yes!” Quicksand said excitedly. “What should we play, even?”
Sahara thought for a moment. Maybe we should play . . . What should we play? OH YEAH!! Tag! Sahara did a joyful flip in the air. Then carefully landed on the soft sand.
“One more word to say.” Sahara said, accidentally saying “sway” instead of “say,” partly because she was only two. “TAG!! Your it!!” She jabbed her talon into Quicksand and took to the sky, only able to fly a few feet off the ground, though.
Quicksand yelped in delight and flew after her, frantically pumping her wings so hard her head lolled down and her neck folded almost in half, then she tumbled onto the sand, doing a painful flip when she fell, only to land on her head.
Sahara quickly stopped and looked at Quicksand, sprawled on the ground. But then, a split second later, she jumped up, shook herself, and called: “I OK, I double jointed in my neck! Only gonna give you a fifteen-thousand head start! ONE, TWO, FOUR, EIGHTEEN, FIFTY-FOUR, NINETY-SIX, TWO-THOUSAND-TWO!!”
As Quicksand counted, Sahara flailed away and ran as fast as she could through the sand, she tripped on a cactus and tumbled out onto the sand. Sahara felt a weird sharp pain vibrate up her wing. She turned her head and saw a bunch of cactus thorns wedged into her wing skeleton. She whimpered and looked away. She started calling for Quicksand as she heard her faint voice calling: “FOURTEEN-THOUSAND-TWO-HUNDRED-TWENTY-TWO, FIFTEEN THOUSAND!!!”
Quicksand hadn’t heard Sahara’s call, because she flew the opposite way Sahara had gone.
Then Sahara caught movement in the corner of her eye. She slowly turned toward it. It was the Sand-Burrower Snake, the deadliest snake in the dragon world, slithering toward her as she screamed and tried to get up and move, only not being able to. The snake was highly poisonous.
Quicksand was now running toward her. “Sahara, ACK, SAHARA!!” Quicksand suddenly shrieked in fear. “YOUR HURT, AND THERE’S A SAND-BURROWER SNAKE ON YOU!!” The last thing Sahara saw was the snake poising itself to lunge, and then it sunk its fangs into Sahara’s ear. Then all the pain faded, and all went black.
