Diane Goes to College
It was Diane's first day at college and Diane couldn't wait. She had to get ready. She bathed, moussed, put her make-up on, and then she was ready.
In college, Diane met a friend named Mika. Mika was a mouse with skin the color of silver glass slippers. She had braids as blond as canaries. And bows the color of a purple sunset. Her braces were as blue as crystal clear water and her nose was as pink and rosie, as roses. Her lipstick was as red as apples, and her teeth were as white as the moon.
Diane and Mika worked together in college. They studied projects, took tests and spelled long words, like "catastrophe." They even studied a project called the Relax-o-Matic Back Scratcher, as seen in David Slonim's Oh, Ducky.
10 comments:
"with skin the color of silver glass slippers. She had braids as blond as canaries."-- THIS is very good stuff! Tell her she rocks for me.
btw, few people know, but my birth middle name is Mika. (like Mee-ka). I use my maiden name now, though.
file that under: shit you didn't need to know. lol
:)
Too funny. A budding writer!
Uh, why aren't our girls living next door to each other?
I'm green-eyed with envy.
Those similes are wonderful! Riley is quite the writer!
Fantastic! !!
The gift of seeing so intensely is that anything beautiful is intensely beautiful! 'Braces as blue as crystal clear water' I wish I'd known Riley when I had to wear the dreaded braces...:)
It's so important to mousse -- I'm glad she took the time on her big day. And why can your 7 year old child spell words like catastrophe??
You're not the only writer in the family! Her braces sound beautiful.
"skin the color of silver glass slippers."
Can't wait for the day I tell someone "I knew her when. . . ."
All right, now I feel completely inadequate. Your daughter is the kind of writer I aspire to be.
Gotta love a girl who knows her way around a metaphor! Can't wait to see the O'Neil girls on the shelf at my local book store!
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