If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.
To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.
One fine summer evening, the twins Larry and Lana are in the house. Loaded up on popcorn and popsicles, the play games that unlock their imagination. Rolling cubes, they come up with a daring, inconceivable storming of the castle under the cover of moonlight. The story gets longer and longer and then, spun up on sugar, they go out in the night to enact their fabulous imaginary battle.
One of them comes up with a meteor of brilliance: they can take turns shooting an apple off the others’ head. They play rock, paper, scissors to see who shoots first. Larry throws down a rock and Lana pops a paper.
Does he live? Turn to page 42.
Does he die? Turn to page 10.
It’s hard to see if you’re using a phone to read this, but one of the neatest things about the cover of this week’s backdrop book is that the barbs of the feather are made up of different sentences.
I’m also glad to see that the Choose Your Own Adventure books are making a bit of a comeback. I loved them when I was the age that the twin children are in this little story.
The comments section is the perfect place for what you came up with. I’m sure you did better than I did this week!
I’d love to hear from you!