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Nursery Rhymes

Every one has their favorite nursery rhyme. So, create a personality for the characters of mother goose or humpty dumpty. How do they act out side of their rhymes for youngins? Why is jack jumping over candlesticks, how did the 3 blind mice go blind? You tell me.

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6 entries
  1. Jack Be Quick

    Author: Hobo Beard Bob

    Jack stared at the flame of the candle sitting in the center of the floor of the tiny, one room cabin. The flickering shadows on the walls were more unnerving…

    Feb 27, 2013 · Ficly archive (1)

  2. A Fright

    Author: mrlizard

    Mary’s such a whimp. I mean, I know she’s a girl, and all that, but she’s so squeamish. And she smells funny, too. I think it’s all that weird stuff she eats…

    Feb 25, 2013 · Ficly archive

  3. nurseries

    Author: punpun

    When the lights go out and the corpse of Humpty begins to smell and when the three blind mice catch up to the farmer’s wife when at last jack has jill, and…

    Feb 17, 2013 · Ficly archive (1)

  4. A Tale of Woe and Water

    Author: MaddyRose

    They thought they could finish me, just sentence me to this interminable hellhole and walk away, thought Spider. _They thought they were being clever, making…

    Feb 17, 2013 · Ficly archive

  5. A Pigs Tale

    Author: JACK

    The market square had held young Peter Ian Gage the 1st,dumbfounded. He couldn’t understand why his brother Pig two would want to stay at home. For goodness…

    Feb 16, 2013 · Ficly archive

  6. "Of Rats and Men . . . "

    Author: stargazer1960

    I am a rat, born in the Year of the Rat, and I’m not going to take the indignity any more. You don’t hear the Chinese people singing the praises of “mice”, and…

    Feb 16, 2013 · Ficly archive (4)