Storyteller's Compass Gifts

A writer fishes for inspiration.

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

"I can't protect you from everything, but I can read you stories that make you believe I can protect you from everything."

Annual run-off at the mouth.

Lady of the bath...

"First, I sent a rocket of a drive down the fairway, then I took the 7-iron, put that ball on the green...a hundred and eighty yards if it was an inch..."

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

"Dammit, Pooh - don't let the heffalumps win!"

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

'Hey, wait a minute...Apples aren't indigenous to this geopraphical region.'

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

Janey then realized that babysitting isn't easy...

Kirsten Johnson

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

'This scholarship application is great. You must have received an A in creative writing.'

The Paper Route

'This goes way beyond just keeping the flies off me...I'm fighting crime now too!'

'Sometimes I wish we'd never told him he was adopted.'

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

"Name your sources."

Reading

We're looking for a quiet neighborhood where everyone feeds us because they all believe we belong to them.

Updated fairy tales - "Cinderella." Dating Service. It's not often we get a client looking for a specific shoe size.

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

Baby Bear.

"First order of business...no more memos beginning 'Once Upon a Time.'"

"It doesn't say, son, who they pawned the kittens off on after the flood."

Gag - a graphic novel

Mephistopheles

"Time to administer scout leader first aid protocol..."

"Less roman, more clef."

'With this organ transplant, you may find yourself doing a lot of thinking with your heart,'

'He's narrating it, I just know it.'