Scary, but true

These are two stories that Mordecai told me last week while we were trading scary stories on the couch. I was so impressed I asked him to tell them again while I madly typed them into my computer.

“Once upon a time there was a horse named Bucko and he loved to pick flowers and eat oats. But he always wore his horse shoes but he didn’t know what people were called. So he tried to talk to people but he couldn’t and they sent him outside. And he go’ed home and he was dressed in an Indian costume and he took his indian costume off and they sended him outside. Um, the end.”

“One day there was a castle in the woods that always had a red balloon tied to the chimney. One day a skeleton was walking along the path and he sawed the house and he said what a beautiful house ane he go’ed to see it. It was rainbow and he thougt it looked like a good place to live in and he wished he had a house like that. He went inside and found cobwebs and skeletons. More skeletons jumped out and said Boo! and they were his friends. The end.”

Then, Solomon gave it a shot:

“Da bear wuz in da woods. He say BOO! End.”

Whispering now:

“Ske-tons in da house. Day walkin and jump up and BOO! Da End.”

My heart leaps for the people who win the hearts of these two.