Sunday Night Story Time

 

Nickel Novel

Title: The Legendary Book War

 

By: Tammy Mae Suitable

 

Letters are the nuts and bolts, words are the tools, sentences are the materials, and paragraphs are the plans to create chapters, and several chapters produce a book.

Once upon a time, Ted decided he wanted to construct an amazing story. He purchased all the necessary materials and boldly began working on his story. Unbeknownst to Ted, evil was lurking in shadows. It was the dreaded Punctuation Army! They wanted to thwart Ted from building his story.

Suddenly, and without any warning, the vile Punctuation Army launched a surprise attack. They used underline marks to out flank Ted's story and fired short ranged rocket dashes ----- the defenseless words were massacred. The Punctuation Army’s sneak attack had worked perfectly.

Despite the setback, Ted was determined to write his story, but this time, he would shield the words with parenthesis armor)))))).

ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE BOOKS A CHANCE!

Late one night, the Punctuation Army attacked again. They launched a multitude of exclamation marks!!!!!! to break down the))))))). When the)))))) were destroyed, a wave of commas,,,,,,,, Colons::: and semi-colons ;;;;;; came storming in.

Ted attempted to save his words with a burst of *******, but it wasn’t enough to stop them. He then deployed his elite squadron of ####### but The Punctuation Army countered with CAPITALIZATION TITANS and the mutant horde of misellpeled wodsr walloping scores of Ted's chapters.

His letters and finely crafted words littered the battle field. Senetances were maimed, and cahpters were cpompltyly annihilated. Ted however had a secret weapon The Punctuation Army was not aware of $$ Spell Check.

Words Sentences and Chapters were miraculously restored. The Punctuation Army was forced to retreat, but not before retaliating with a regiment of ???????? and ///////

After four lOnG YeaRs of fIghTiNg, tHe lines of waR hAd Been drawn!!!?>, bOtH…,,,)) Sides”””” attacked? and counter-attacccked the other, with know end in site— Ted's only ally was the Terrific Thesaurus that had missiles, artilleries, armaments and weaponries that kept the Punctuation Army,,,, from )(completely ruiniong his story$,*!

Ultimately, The League of Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After Writers had to be called in to arbitrate a peaceful settlement.

Negotiations went on for months, until both sides finally agreed to end all hostilities. Unfortunately, Ted didn’t know The Punctuation Army had developed a secret weapon during the negotiations. It was called the run-on sentence that would go on and on and on and on forever,,,,, ---- guaranteeing the war would never ever ever eerrrree ever ever never ever end!!!!

Ted had also developed a new weapon; a Wise weapon of enormous power to neutralize the Punctuation Army’s secret weapon and all future attacks. He suitably named it, The Editor.

 

The powerful Editor ensured Ted would finally be able to finish his amazing story.

 

The end!

Have a Great Week of Fun!!

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