Come sit beside me … tell me a story … Just like the story you told last night

In the “Land of Wonder,” where animals can talk, monkeys have magic and horses fly

I remember that the Farmer is a girl … and her mother is a Carpenter

And the girl has a Siamese cat … I like that … You know I like cats

It can be scary … but not too scary.   I know that stories aren’t really real.

I like to listen … I like to watch you … I like the way that you make me feel.

Sometimes happy and sometimes sad … Sometimes worried & sometimes mad

Words can be just like photographs … Pictures you see in your mind

Like with Hansel and Gretel … Like with Peter and the Wolf … The mean Rumpelstiltskin … And the beautiful Rapunzel with her hair falling down.  Beautiful hair long and strong … Just like the tail of a beautiful horse that knows how to fly!

Dory the Horse is a black & white horse who can fly … She can fly!

She sleeps in the air on a cloud way up there in the sky … in the sky.

She lives on a farm with a girl and her mom, who feed her each day with some grain and some hay, and she lets them both ride just about any time that they ask.

And they’re happy as happy people can be.  Seeing wonderful lands and far away seas.

And they have lots of Friends who live on their farm …

Like a Monkey who knows magic … And a special Siamese cat

Boodah the cat is a mystical cat who can hide in plain sight.  People will swear she can just disappear with her mind any time.   But when the girl … the young farmer girl … puts some food in her dish with a shake or a swish, well then out of nowhere, Boodah appears just like THAT!

Boodah’s friend is a Monkey who has no name.   She plays tricks with the swish of her long curly tail.   But her magic is sometimes mischievous, too.  Like turning water into soup … And turning Dory red and blue

Now Mischievous Monkey and Boodah the cat like to play every day.   They get into trouble hoping that someone will save their tails.  So Dory the horse has to watch them of course, fix what they break and return what they take, and make sure the farm comes to no harm in the end. 

Tell me a story just like the story you told the last time I went to sleep.  I like the part where the horse brings the Farm Girl spices from India and olives from Greece. 

And when Monkey uncurls her long tail, and she swishes the dust in the air, and the dust cloud becomes a storm … A storm that grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows and grows until it … fills … the … sky

And when the story is over and the Farmer rescues the Carpenter, and the Monkey gives the Siamese cat a treat.  That’s the ending I like … That’s the ending I need.  Now if you hug me tight, I’ll go right to sleep.

© 2019 by Myron Schreck