Peter, the Spider and the King pt 3 of 4

[wytchcroft]

Part three: in which there are clowns, puppets and a King“Eat me? Eat me!” squeaked Peter - “But you can’t eat me

Comments

[mr_stapleton]

the mood here is distinctly colder than in previous parts...
keep up the good work! thank you! :)

[wytchcroft]

thank you:) writing up these 'stories for children' is an interesting experience very different to atually telling them in person.

thanks again!:)

[stoshagownozad]

I immediately remembered few of our folk tales aboun Never Laughing princess (she's always crying and wheeping and only the Hero could make her laugh and cure her and all the rest...

^))) grey clowns and awful puppets are great!

thanks:)

[wytchcroft]

that sounds like a great faery story - and maybe pretty similar actually! :)

it'ss been fun to type up these childrens' stories - i feel a lot less nervous than with other kinds of writing!

[stoshagownozad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqV-nKSeSDo

it's from 70th soviet children movie. entertainment a little bit like those clowns could arrange...

the poem says approximately the following:
"...And monsters of awful appearance
had grasped their poor little victim
and got him tortured,
they bite him
they throttle him
they put him onto ant's hill
and into the moor full of weird mosquitos
and finally poor little child wheeped:
oh, spare me, spare me, monsters,
I'll tell you where my Granny's treasure is buried
you could find it on the Pushkin square"

( I do not know why it was exactly Pushkin square - for rhyme in Russian, surely, but effect is really striking :)))

[wytchcroft]

eeeeeeeeeeeee!

LOL!

[wytchcroft]

... but i love it actually - that rhyme is great!:)

Re: LOL!

[stoshagownozad]

:))))

[wytchcroft]

i hope it was entertaining, copying up from a dictaphone was - uh, - interesting... and a story for such young kids was fun to do, but i've never read one back before... i aint over impressed with it myself.

[wytchcroft]

i'm glad:))

it IS funny what you notice when you write something - like, i read it all through again today and i'm like "what,no/one has a sense of smell already? what happened there?!":))