While in the Pod Squad meeting for Down the Yellow Brick Pod, host Tara asked us to imagine what Oz characters would have in their pockets or their nightstands and write a little piece. I picked Button-Bright.
I promise, no ChatGPT was involved.
My concept is that Button-Bright travels Oz and often stays with welcoming citizens who open their home to him. So, as he goes to bed...
Button-Bright rolled over in the bed and felt the items in his pocket push against his thigh.
Sitting up and reaching in, he removed a dozen marbles, a shooter, a pack of matches (they had long since been soaked and dried out and were useless), a coil of string and an odd looking pebble he had found that shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow.
Setting them on the bedside table, he laid down again, this time with nothing pressing against him.
Many of these items would be forgotten by the boy, being left for his hosts and their children to find some use for. He'd keep the matches, though.
Fellow attendee Eric Gjovaag sent me his story to post as well, so enjoy another one!
Ozma lay in her bed, blinking repeatedly.
“Darn it,” she thought to herself, “insomnia again!”
It didn’t happen to the young ruler of Oz very often, but when it did it really hit her hard, and she couldn’t sleep all night.
She sat up, reached over to her nightstand, and opened the drawer.
Something in here may help, she thought.
Then she pulled out the jackknife.
Most of her friends might be surprised at it, but she’d had it longer than just about anything else, and had used it to create Jack Pumpkinhead, back when she was still a boy.
She then knew what she had to do, and rummaged around in her closet.
She put on the shirt, pants, and hat, and stepped out.
Tip was going out to look for an adventure!
