Part of Girl’s weekly assignment in language arts is to write a story incorporating 20 of her 30 vocab words. Not as easy as it sounds. Lycanthrope, transmogrify, sui geris, soporific, autodidact, in medias res, circumambient, to name a few.
Anyway, I’m proofreading and doing a little editing for her (this weekend we will have a mini-lesson on formatting and punctuation) when I get to the end of her story and realize it…well, doesn’t have an ending. It’s just dangling. It’s a short story about a girl who discovers some of her friends are werewolves. These were her last few lines:
The figure slowly transformed into a person. Not just any person, but my friend Josephine. I guess I passed out because when I opened my eyes Josephine was staring at me.
“You okay?” she asked.
“Yeah, just don’t kill me, please,” I whispered.
“Don’t worry. We’re not that bad,” she said.
See, it doesn’t end. Now, considering she’d written the entire story by herself and we needed to leave for school in five minutes, I thought a little editorial license on my part was okay. I was just wrapping it up for her, not using any of those vocab words.
“Don’t worry. We’re not that bad,” she said.
“How many….who…what?” I couldn’t get out a coherent question.
“Our whole group, except for you,” Josephine replied.
“Are you going to make me one of you?” The thought horrified me. “Now that I think about it, I like being human. I like it a lot.”
Josephine laughed, same as she always did and at that moment I knew it would all be okay. “No. We like you just the way you are. And I wouldn’t do that to you. Trust me, werewolf girls have a really hard time shaving their legs. All that fur….”
Lyndon rolled his eyes and Josephine and I laughed. I was just one of the group. Or maybe I should say pack.
Girl: (giggling) Mom, my teacher will think I’m weird with that shaving the legs line.
Me: But it’s funny. Didn’t you laugh?
She kept it. Ah…it’s good to be the boss.
Now, I’m going to go boss my own wip….
I’m glad she kept the leg-shaving comment. Too funny!
Comment by Rhonda — September 14, 2007 @ 7:24 am
Good for you. My son would be on his own with that. Have a wonderful weekend.
Comment by Ginger — September 14, 2007 @ 7:28 am
Have a great weekend!
Comment by Kathy — September 14, 2007 @ 8:24 am
Let’s hope the teacher thinks it’s funny, Rhonda.
LOL, Ginger.
Comment by Jennifer — September 14, 2007 @ 10:35 am