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  MESSAGE FROM GRANDPA

  The key objectives of my stories are to promote positive personal qualities in children and to provide humor and a little suspense.

   

  I believe that the stories are suitable to be read by children, and to children of all ages and enjoyed by readers as young as 99 years and beyond.

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  Two Friendly Witches

  Unexpected Visitors

  Storyline:

  Grandpa is delighted when asked by his grandchildren to tell them a story. This time he tells a tale of two boys who had their day turned upside down when they accidently ventured past the home of two witches. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that beauty is something that is in the eye of the beholder and what is important is not how we look, but how we treat others.

  The events that take place are also quite funny. The food given to one of the boys by the witches will have you licking your lips and rushing to the kitchen to prepare a similar meal. The drink that he is given is one to die for.

  (look out for grandpa’s other stories – already written)

  Alicia: “Hi! My name is Alicia and this here, with the beautiful hat, is my best friend Phoebe. Say hi to the readers Phoebe.”

  Phoebe: “Hi! I am sure that you will love grandpa’s stories about me. Oh, sorry, us!”

  Alicia: “Yes, we hope that you enjoy grandpa’s first story”

  Two Friendly Witches

  Unexpected Visitors

  Once upon a time in the country of Lukina there lived two witches. One was named Alicia and the other was named Phoebe.

  Alicia was tall and skinny. She had several teeth missing and a wart on her long and crooked nose. Just above her nose, she had eyes with deep blue eyeballs. Above her left eye, she had another wart. Her blond hair was long and straggly. Her mouth was a little bit on the large size and slightly higher on the left side of her face than her right. Her chin was long and pointy and her hands had long fingers and long nails. To most people, she was not in the least bit attractive. In fact, they thought that she looked quite scary. Alicia however, spent many hours admiring herself in front of the mirror and saw only beauty.

  Phoebe was short and round. Her nose was not as long as Alicia’s, but it looked like an out of shape potato with two small warts on it. She had a normal sized mouth with a full set of teeth. Her eyes looked unusual because each eyeball was permanently positioned on the outer side of each eye. She had long dark hair which was not cut evenly. As was the case with Alicia, the people thought that she did not look at all attractive. In fact, they thought that she also looked quite scary. Like Alicia, Phoebe also thought that she was very beautiful and spent hours and hours in front of the mirror admiring and blowing kisses at herself.

  Despite their unusual looks, these witches were very kind and friendly. Whenever someone came past their house, they rushed out to wave to them and ask them if they would like to have something to eat. To their dismay, the people always ran off down the hill at a speed as fast as a train. This caused them to be very sad. All they wanted was to be friends to everyone.

  One day, two boys were approaching the house. The boys’ names were Blake and Leyton. They were too busy kicking a football to notice the friendly witches at the front of their house waving at them. The boys continued to kick the ball and were getting very close to the witches’ front door, but the boys still did not see them. They were now only ten metres away from the door.

  Blake kicked the ball high and in the direction of the witches. Phoebe ran and caught the ball with her left hand. As she ran for the ball, she accidentally knocked Leyton over. Blake now saw two witches and with a horrified expression, ran off as fast as a bullet down the hill, leaving Leyton behind to look after himself.

  When Phoebe knocked Leyton over, he landed hard on the ground and on standing up could not see properly and had a silly grin on his face. The witches helped the boy walk inside their home and asked if he wanted something to eat.

  With his silly grin still on his face, Leyton replied, “Yes please!”

  The witches quickly lit a fire and cooked a mixture of frogs, worms and tree leaves and the three of them then sat at the table to eat.

  After each frog eaten by Leyton, he remarked how delicious it tasted. Altogether, he ate eighteen frogs and a half of a plate of worms mixed with tree leaves. When he finished eating all they had served him, he politely asked if he could have more.

  Phoebe replied. “Sure!”

  “This time, could I please have more frogs and fewer worms?” Leyton asked licking his lips.

  When Leyton finished his second serving, he told them that it was the best meal that he had ever had. This made Alicia and Phoebe very happy. Alicia then asked him what he would like to drink. Leyton told them that he would have anything that they gave him.

  “I will make you my specialty,” Alicia told him excitedly.

  Alicia filled a long glass with what appeared to be muddy water. She then opened a jar full of cockroaches and asked Leyton how many of these he wanted in his drink.

  Licking his lips, he answered “ten please”.

  Another jar had ants.

  Again licking his lips, he said, “A heaped spoonful of those, please.”

  The next jar was filled with flies.

  Licking his lips and rubbing his hands, Leyton asked, “Please, please, can I have the whole jar.”

  The next jar was filled with fleas.

  “I don’t think I will have any of those,” Leyton said, screwing his little nose in disgust.

  The glass was now full, and Alicia gave it to Leyton and said, “Here you are, I am sure that you will enjoy it.”

  Alicia made two more drinks similar to Leyton's drink and the three of them sat at the table to drink them. Leyton took a sip and commented that this was the most delicious drink he had ever tasted. He then put the glass to his mouth and did not stop drinking until it was all gone.

  “By the way, what is your name?” Phoebe asked.

  “Name?” responded Leyton. “I don’t have a name.”

  It seemed that when Leyton hit the ground, he had lost his memory, which explained his strange grin and behavior. The witches realized this, so they decided not to discuss it further for now, and they continued chatting about other things.

  Leyton then stood up and went to the toilet. When he walked into the washroom, he saw himself in the mirror. His eyes nearly popped out with fright. He screamed, and the two witches came running to see what was wrong. When he saw them, he clasped his hands and hid his face.

  “What’s wrong?” The witches yelled.

  “Don’t look at me! Don’t look at me!” Leyton shouted back, sobbing loudly and still covering his face.

 

  “Why?” they asked.

  “I look so ugly!” Leyton said sobbing uncontrollably and shaking his head from side to side. “Please don’t look at me.” He added.

  Leyton had lost his memory. The two witches were the only people that he now knew. The way they looked, as far as he was concerned, was normal and very beautiful. When he saw his plain face, with two small eyes, a little nose, a tiny mouth, two ears and a thick but neat crop of hair on his head, he got a big shock.

  “How ugly, how horrible, how different I am,” he thought.

  When he explained this to the witches, they tried to comfort him and gently patted him on the back. “Don’t worry,” Phoebe said. “Although you are not beautiful like us, we still like you a
lot and want you to be our friend,” Phoebe added. This made Leyton feel better, and he stopped sobbing but was too scared to look at himself in the mirror.

  They then and sat in the lounge room and continued to chat. The witches told Leyton about themselves and that one day they would like to travel and see the world. They told him about their childhood and explained that most of the people that live in the village are not friendly to them. Leyton listened and was sad to hear that the villagers were mean to them. He could not understand, “Why?”, As far as he was concerned, they were very friendly and very beautiful.

  There wasn’t much to tell about himself. He could not remember a thing. It’s as if he had just been born. So as not to appear totally stupid, he opened his mouth and said, “I love eating frogs and worms and having a drink after dinner.” He noticed that the two witches were waiting for more, so after a long pause he added, “After I have my drink I like going to the toilet.”

  The two witches gave him a smile. When they saw that he wasn’t looking, they looked at each other with a look of concern for their new friend.

  It was getting dark and all of a sudden Phoebe jumped up and ran behind the couch. Alicia