Storyteller's Compass Pillows

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."

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..."

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

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

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...

"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.'

Kirsten Johnson

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

The Paper Route

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

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!'

Reading

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

Baby Bear.

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

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

Gag - a graphic novel

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

"Less roman, more clef."

Mephistopheles

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

Three Witches from Macbeth

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