OK?'
An anguished moan 'Oh, no!' from the other end of the line. Grandchild
phoned back later.
'The girl's name is Stobey and she is a space worm, and the boy is
Slutter and he's a slime.'
'Oh, my! Stobey the Space Worm and Slutter the Slime. That's a fine
pair of characters you're giving me to work with. What else did you
come up with?'
'Mom says for you to use your own imagination and not to bother her.'
'Hmmm, I'm being abandoned in deep space. OK, how about Stobey
and Slutter in a story about a space bagel?'
'C'mon, you're kiddin'; but it's your problem, Gramps! Carry on!'
And that led to the story about':
A Bagel? In Space?
Stobey the Space Worm is a girl, and she and her friend Slutter the
Slime, a boy, live on farms next to each other. The farms are on Planet
Mars.
One morning, after breakfast, Stobey runs to Slutter's house and they
race each other to their spaceships. Stobey's spaceship is squishy and is
named Cream Cheese; Slutter's spaceship is as slimy as he and has the
well-deserved name Lox.
Spaceship Lox is named after a kind of smoked fish that was taken
along by the first expedition of colonists to Planet Mars from Planet
Earth.
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