Slide!!!
By Dan S., 5th Grade, Spring Valley
That's Weird, Grandma Other Venues TOTL 2005
One day my dad said "Go down the slide." I said "I’ll barf". So I went down and barfed. I said Told Ya.
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Category: Other Venues
Stories that appeared in shows other than TWG.
President Calls on Kids for Help
By Janet E., Cleveland Elementary
Other Venues TOTL 2005
President calls the kids for help to get in the volcano. He need to get a cat inside the volcano. Then the kids came and help the president.
TweetUntitled (When I grow up / teacher)
By Brooke E., 3rd Grade, A. G. Bell Association, 2008 conference
That's Weird, Grandma Other Venues
When I grow up, I want to be a teacher. After the morning gets started and we do calendar, I would let them (the students) have ‘free choice.’ Then, recess. Then, ‘free choice.’ Then, lunch and then, recess. Then they would have a little rest. They would have ‘Library’ and then ‘Reading.’ We would do a puppet show and then go home.
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By Maya G., Pritzker
Dialogues That's Weird, Grandma Other Venues TOTL 2005
Thomas: Hello Yamesse.
Yamesse: Hello Thomas
T: Do you want to go on a date with me?
Y: Sure.
T: How about Chio Belle
Y: Oh I love that place
Scene (later that night)
T: wow this is great
Y: yes, it is isn’t it.
T: (Pulls out her chair)
Y: Thank you.
T: I have to tell you something, actually two things.
Y: I’m ready.
T: well, I am a kung fu fighter
Y: second one
T: will you marry me?
Y: yes
Scene (later the next day walking together)
Y: So you are a kung fu fighter
T: Yes (sees enemies)
Y: Wow I think that’s awesome
T: Oh my god!!!!!
Y: What what
T: (pulls her behind bushes) Those are my enemies who the kungfu nation is trying to kill. I must go fight.
Y: What if you get hurt
T: I won’t stay here
Y: Oh do be careful
T: (Pulls the enemies in an abandoned building)
Y: (Runs into the building)
Scene
T: Go away (talking to Yamesse)
Enemies: We’re going to kill your girlfriend (holding Yamesse by neck)
T: My fiancé
E: That makes it much better
Y: Help (suffocating)
T: (Kicks enemies) Take that
E: YOOOOOOW! (gets up and punches Thomas)
(Thomas gets beat up and is dying on the ground)
Y: (Runs over to him)
T: Yamesse.
Y: Yes?
T: Before I go
Y: Go where
T: Go to heaven. I want you to know I love you so much and…
Y: (crying) and what and what Tom
E: Your fiancé is dead!!!!!!!
Y: Leave me alone. (crying) Tom why did you have to leave me. I love you and I’ll never forget you. (Cry noises)
The end
Less/More/Add/Subtract
By Levert W., 3rd Grade, Choir Academy
Dialogues That's Weird, Grandma Other Venues TOTL 2006
Less/More/Add/Subtract
All Characters stand like stone. One blue light comes on More. Two red lights on Less. Three orange lights on Add. One green light on Subtract.
Less/Beautiful: Love.
More/April: Hate.
Add/James: Lust.
Subtract/Bond: (Freaky) Money.
Less/Beautiful: You just messed up the whole moment.
Subtract/Bond: (Retarded) Sorry. You know me. I always mess up stuff.
(All lights up. Set move on [couch brought on stage].)
All Except Subtract/Bond: (Mad) You got that right.
Add/James: (Sits on couch,mad) We were having fun.
Subtract/Bond: (Whispering) For the first time in your life.
More/April: (Digging in his ear like he can’t hear) I couldn’t hear you.
Subtract/Bond: (Loud, while everyone covers their ears) For the first time in your life.
(Subtract/Bond walks off.)
More/April: (Scared) Got it that time.
Add/James: (Sexy) You know what? I starting to getting tired of them.
Less/Beautiful: (Bad attitude) So what are you going to do about?
Subtract/Bond: (Begins off stage, coming from the stairs that come from back stage) Oh, yeah, I’m getting tired of you, too, Add.
(Now on stage)
Less/Beautiful: As I was say before I was so retardedly interrupted what are you going to do about it?
(Pointing to Subtract)
More/April: (Teasing) He ain’t going to do nothing. He is too scared.
(Angrily, Add slaps More. More hits the ground silly-like)
Less/Beautiful: Is that what you are going to do to him?
Add/James: (Touching a knife in his pocket) No worse.
(Lights out. Lights on. Lights on with Subtract/Bond sitting on the couch with Less.)
Subtract/Bond: (Quick) Sorry, sorry, B, B please forgive me, I’m sorry-
Add/James: Shut up.
Less/Beautiful: Ya Please.
Subtract/Bond: (Falls down) Oh.
Less/Beautiful: Everyone be quiet. Bond, get up…
Subtract/Bond: Okay, every time me and him are having a convo they always shows up.
Less/Beautiful: (Grabs her purse) Come on Bond let’s go out.
Subtract/Bond: Ok. (They leave)
More/April: I’m glad they’re gone. Listen, there’s something I need to tell you.
Add/James: (Sits down on the couch) What?
More/April: I’m in love with you.
Add/James: We’ve been through this before. I’m married to Beautiful.
More/April: I don’t care. I love you. (Walking away) I don’t love you.
(Song. Soft light.)