Extreme Nice by Matt Zurbo   Hey, look! There’s the new kid. (Young school kids parting to look back at shy girl giving a cute wave.) Watch out! She’s a fundamentalist! A whats-i-whatist? She is really full on about something! Oh, what? (Two kids arguing. In background, girl is hugging bully.) She’s a radical! A … Continue reading Day 218: Extreme Nice

Hero of the Beach by Matt Zurbo   Hey, there’s a new Hero of the Beach! (Kid in bathers with floppy hat, with towel and beach ball, walking left to right, but looking, startled, at reader.) It’s not Alpha Boy! Or even Alpha Girl! (Kid, small, towered over by chest out, big-chinned, boy and girl … Continue reading Day 217: Hero of the Beach

First, a poem... Little Tommy was stuck on a raft surrounded by man-eating sharks. With nothing to lose, only amusement for food, he put bum to water and let out a fart. (Kid on raft, bum in water, bubbles around it, sharks fleeing in horror.) The Other Mermaid by Matt Zurbo Lance was a pirate … Continue reading Day 216: The Other Mermaid

Romance in the Dark by Matt Zurbo   Froop was the weirdest creature found in the ocean’s depths. Tired of the dark and cold into the sea he wept. (Weird phosphorous ‘fish’ surrounded by others like it. Fish looks sad. Other creature mostly eating each other.) “I can’t go on like this,” he confessed to … Continue reading Day 215: Romance in the Dark