I’m just going to take the snippets of story that Sarah throws out pretty much all the time and stitch them together into a narrative.<\/p>\n
“A monster ate my imagination.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t have any energy because a dragon ripped up my electricity and threw it into the stinky garbage pile. If I had my saw and my hammer we could maybe solve the problem.”<\/p>\n
“Sometimes I go to a class in the sky… well, up in the clouds. There are lots of big kids there and they always hit. They don’t hit me, but they always hit each other.”<\/p>\n
“My snake’s name is Sad. That’s his name because he misses his Mommy and Daddy.”<\/p>\n
“The Mad Solider was yelling at me. I had to yell back to him, so he would know about the Very Dangerous Staircase, and not put me in jail.”<\/p>\n
“Sometimes when I’m sleeping a tiger comes in my room… well, a shadow tiger, made of shadows, and if I’m sleeping the wrong way, he bites my neck. But if my Sleepy Tiger is there, he protects me.”<\/p>\n
And that’s just casual conversation, not when she’s consciously trying to tell stories. Those are even freakier…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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