Or are we just picking?
I noticed people who post poetry, are not required to provide links to everywhere it may appear on the web, yet all of a sudden stories should?

IF its Nirvanas work.

Why is that neccesary?
If its Nirvana's work, it's her right to post another version of HER story.
Because a version of HER story appears on another website, is no reason to post a link, IMHO.

I'd rather my daughters name wasn't brought up with everything to do with youngsters. You have your own kids, use their names.
Besides, I agree with floosie. If you use a story from another site you should give credit to the author and the site where it came from. If its a dubious site with lots of adult material maybe find a story from a different site? Theres plenty to choose from.

NOT a floosie:

But that is original story. That particular site has quite a few stories very unsuitable for younger people, so I wouldn't have personally posted that link on a public board. Winnie, for example, is way too young for much of it.

Nirvana: OH, so that was your contribution to the story. I didn't realize. Posting the sites where the stories can be found might be interesting to people here so they can read the original words and stories.

Wasn't me.

NOT a floosie:

I also write on other sites, including that one, under a couple of other names, including the one you highlighted. I adapted it slightly to make it more appropriate for here.

(Had I seen your post I would have answered it)

Nirvana: I'll ask again, being that my post was mysteriously deleted. I feel that this is on topic and at the very least deserves a reply.

Shouldn't the excerpt below be credited to this site?



I'm sorry, but I'm really not comfortable with a link to a site with quite a lot of material which is unsuitable for young children (I won't allow my 12 yr old on it) being posted here.

mook53lhd:


Click on 'reply' on the bottom left hand corner of the one you want to add to and write your contribution to the story.
Yes ~ it's fun! the censorship is merely a reminder that this is a public board to which children have access and so to watch the language a bit, nothing more than that.

hi there; can anyone please tell me about story tag. how does 1 get involved.sounds like the mad libs with a pinch of censorship. no protest i understand. but i`d like to be able to throw some sentences in the mix.sounds like fun. mook

Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay

born 20th October 1905

John Le Carre

born 19th October 1931

Henri Louis Bergson

born 18 the October 1859

Noah Webster

born 16th October 1758

Mason Locke Weems

born October 11 1759

James Du Maresq Clavell(1924–1994), Australian-born American writer, scriptwriter, film director, and producer. Born in Sydney, he was the son of a British commander stationed in Australia to help establish the Royal Australian Navy. When Clavell was nine months old, his family was posted back to England, where he was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School. He left the school at the outbreak of World War II to join the Royal Artillery as a young captain. In 1941 he was captured by the Japanese in Java and, at the age of 18, was shipped to Changi jail in Singapore, where he remained until the end of the war.

In 1953 he moved to Hollywood, where he embarked on a career as a scriptwriter and, later, producer and director. His best-selling novels include King Rat (1962), Tai-Pan (1966), Shogun (1975), Noble House (1981), Whirlwind (1986), and Gai-Jin (1993). His successful works as a scriptwriter include the cult sci-fi film The Fly (1958) and the prisoner-of-war drama The Great Escape (1966). Clavell also wrote, produced and directed To Sir With Love (1966). By the time his film The Last Valley (1969), a meditation on men at war starring British actor Michael Caine, appeared, Clavell was already a best-selling novelist.

Tai-Pan, Shogun, and Noble House were made into TV mini-series, which Clavell produced. When Shogun went on air in 1980 starring Richard Chamberlain, it became the second highest rated mini-series in history. Shogun the musical followed on Broadway in 1989.

Born 10 th October

(found in Encyclopadiea Britannica)

Nirvana: ;)

DanDanDan:

anytime!

Nirvana: Woah!!! That's a gold mine!!! You're a life saver! Thanks!!! ;)

wooo hooooo

DanDanDan:

You might find something here:

Try these

Nirvana: I'm looking for short stories that one can tell in under ten minutes such as Abiyoyo or Dark and Stormy Night. Not too scary or I'll get calls. ;)

Dark and Stormy Night has a funny ending and all the suspense build up is released in a huge ball of laughter! It's such a hit. But I tell it every year (they still want to hear it again tho).

Kipling: Thanks Kip.

I'm hoping to find a few short stories to tell in class. I have quite a few but want some fresh material. I'm looking on the internet but sometimes it a needle in a haystack.

DanDanDan:

I know you are ~ I was just making sure of the age~group you wanted, also there is quite a big difference between what primary school children (up to 10/11) read and what 11/12 year old secondary school children read. Although I started school in Wisconsin not England, it was a long time ago and I wasn't too sure what age elementary schools covered.

DanDanDan: You may post your question to the poetry and music discussion boards, for help as well.

Nirvana: I know silly. I'm an elementary school teacher. ;)

DanDanDan: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Irving Washington, could be used as well.

DanDanDan:

Monkey Crazzy is 12, likes scary things, she read most of those, quite a few when she was younger.

Alvin Achwartz wrote 'Scary Stories to tell in the dark'
and 'More Scary Stories to tell in the dark'
also: 'Ghosts ~ ghostly tales from folklore',
are some of what she has read over the past years ~ she seems to enjoy his books.

DanDanDan:

4 - 11 in this country are primary, over 11 are secondary.

Elementary age students... 6-12

DanDanDan:

Elementary? Not too sure how old you mean exactly, but my own are between 12 and 15, and enjoy reading, including these:

Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Guyler

Beware by R.L.Stine ( a collection of stories plus a couple of his own)

Raising the Dead by David Cohen, (all you'd want to know about the undead)

The Berenstein Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstein .

I'm looking for scary stories that would be appropriate for elementary students (to be told in the classroom)

poems, stories, songs... ;) Any ideas?

Round 1
Mousetrap/Maineiac† 45 - 89 [In Progress]
Stardust/ScarletRose 332 - 267 [Completed]
†SandyH/Nirvana 199 - 69 [In Progress]
oldhamgirl/Mary_Jo 282 - 350 [Completed]
baddessi/whatdidyousay† 208 - 348 [In Progress]
†Capricorn/bwildman 112 - 94 [In Progress]
HoneyLo/abnznz 370 - 289 [Completed]
plaintiger/sarok 310 - 263 [Completed]

Edward L. Stratemeyer


[Arthur M. Winfield, Horatio Alger Jr., Captain Ralph Bonehill, Nick Carter and many other pen names]



born 4th October 1862

Thomas Clayton Wolfe

born 3 October 1900

Graham Green

born 2nd October 1904

Miguel do Cervantes Saavedra

born 29th September 1547

To Tom's amazement there was a fluid of blood flowing under the bridge ...

(FootNote:This is a story tag if anyone wants to add to it)

William Cuthbert Faulkner

awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, born 25th September 1897

H.G.Wells

born 21 September 1866

Looking back at the restuarant the building collapsed and was ablaze. Something had told him to get outta there. He ran along the gulley of the road to a collapsed barn and beyond that a cripled bridge..

Sir William Golding

born 19th September 1911

Mousetrap VS Maineiac
HoneyLo VS abnznz
baddessi VS whatdidyousay
Stardust VS ScarletRose
Capricorn VS bwildman
plaintiger VS sarok
SandyH VS Nirvana
oldhamgirl VS Mary_Jo

Francis Parkman

Born 16 September 1823

Allan Bloom

born 14th September, 1930

Nirvana: ROY RUN A DECATHLON is Arthur Conan Doyle.

ANN MY CARDHOLDER
Raymond Chandler

CELESTIAL HIRERS
Leslie Charteris

HAIRIEST HAG CAT
Agatha Christie

CATERPILLAR IN COW
Patricia Cornwell

ROY RUN A DECATHLON
Arthur Conan Doyle.

SMALLER JOEY
James Ellroy

GO SKETCH TERN
GK Chesterton

MARINATES A LILAC
Alistair Maclean

LEN QUERY LEE
Ellery Queen

ESPECIALLY MINK
Mickey Spillane

HAIRIEST HAG CAT is Agatha Christie

Tom went back and told the group there was no hope with the radio. Anyone have a CB in a truck outside. "I do" yelled a woman "In my car.It's unlocked, A 1993 Black Jimmy" He ran to it. The car was covered in blood and the vehicle had a smashed hood. He forced the passenger door open because the drivers side was crushed. No use there for he had no power for the CB. What was plan C?.....

Raymond Chandler is probably in there somewhere.