Chad Halcom
(Intentionally) Bad Children's Stories?4/25/2021 This image is a pair of sample illustrations from a children's story project I have in the works -- because I tell horrible children's stories, and I think there's an actual market for that. All around the world, eager children have asked dads to tell them stories at bedtime. It makes sense that most of those dads are not naturally gifted writers, and some of the stories might even fail to the point of hilarity. Why go to the trouble of making up a story, when you know you can't, or memorize one of the greats by Hans Christian Andersen or Aesop when you might mess up one detail and miss the landing? Simply learn one of mine, and read it out loud, with no previous expectations or fear of disappointment.
Think of them like fractured fairly tales -- mice on a ship who like to climb the poop deck because it contains the word 'poop,' or animals who overtake a moonshine distillery to make a down-home jug band. Usually the moral of the story is something irreverent, slapstick or nonsensical. Hey, could you do any worse?
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