How can you believe what the narrator is saying - that when he says something happened, it actually did? This is fiction, after all. None of it really happened.
- Paulie, stop squirming. Gene, stop poking your brother. Ok, boys, c’mon, I can’t tell you a story until you stop. Let’s settle down... Where were we?
- The boys returned to the woods.
- Oh, yeah (winks)...the boys returned to the woods.
Paulie, two of the few words he knows, "Ot woot!"
- The ODD WOODS. Yes, Paulie. And they knew it was the Odd Woods by the sign, which read O-D-D, W-O-O-D-S. The boys looked at each other, made serious faces, and walked inside....where they met the Gatekeepers. (Dramatic pause.) But the boys weren’t worried, they had been here before. One gatekeeper had head that was a...
- TOWEL (owl)!
- And one gatekeeper had a head that was a...
- DOOR (orr)!
- And they both had feet made of...
- BUBBLE GUM (ubbl yum)!!!
- The gatekeepers smiled at the boys, shouted "Yeep!" then ran away.
Don’t feel bad if you lose your place. Just go back and reread what you need to.
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