Illustration by Camilla Franklin
Rolo holds a karaoke night competition in the hopes it will attract the Story PIrates to his struggling Bean Emporium. Featuring two new stories: “The Case of the Musical Cinnamon Buns (feat. Alysha Deslorieux),” a 90’s R&B-style song about bakery snacks who hypnotize by Hannah, a 12 year old from New Jersey, and “Attack of the Stuff,” a story about inanimate objects coming to life, by a 10 year old from Washington, D.C. named Annikah.
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The Case of the Musical Cinnamon Buns
by Hannah, age 12, New Jersey
The Case Of The Musical Cinnamon Buns
Once there were cinnamon buns. Those cinnamon buns were normal you could say. There was a cinnamon bun factory on the edge of a cliff. On the edge of that cliff there was a bay. And in that bay there was a sea monster that spit magic. There was a storm one day and the sea level rose. The sea monster swam up and spit the factory with magic. The cinnamon buns were alive! They sang on the top of their lungs. They had the best voices ever. They were so good they put everyone in a trance so they loved them. “Aaahhh ahhh ahh ah ahhhh” they sang so that the whole world could hear them. 2 detectives had a way to save themselves. They vowed to rid the world of these tunes that had everyone in a trance. They traveled the world singing so that they couldn’t hear the cinnamon buns. “We are detectives. We travel the world saving the humans from the musical cinnamon buns. We save and help people with our voices. We can do this.” they sang that song and other songs on the radio. In 3 months, the detectives saved all of South America and North America. The cinnamon buns were getting weaker. In the whole year, the detectives defeated all but one cinnamon bun. The original. “You detectives can ever defeat me” said the original. “Yes we can!” sang the detectives together. They had a dance battle. In the end, the 2 fearless detectives won! They saved the whole world.
The End!
“The Beautiful Trash” from our adaptation of “Tissues” was written by Caroline Reedy, arranged by Jack Mitchell and produced by Joel Esher
Attack of the Stuff
by Annikah, age 10, Washington, DC
Once opon a time there was a TV and she had a mind of her own. She was friends with all the other stuff in the house. She was sick of just pretending to not be alive so during the night she had a meeting with all the other stuff. And with alot of questioning they decided to attack and take over the world! The next day all the stuff started to attack the humans and they all screamed except for one little girl named Emma. She said, " I knew it! I knew they were always alive." She stood infront of all the stuff and put her hand out and stopped them. They started shouting at her about how they were going to take over the world! wa hahahahaaaaaaa. No you won't Emma said I will teach her to be kind. Emma then started explaining how to be kind and they all started singing and being friends togrther. Most of all they wouldn't have to be frozen.
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