Early in 1991 I was at home minding my youngest three siblings, one of whom had just turned 8, while the the other two were aproaching 7 and 4 years old. Kids being kids, there was trouble, noise, fighting and crying. Nothing I was doing was calming things down, well that was until I dived behind a chair, taking off my shoes and socks.
Diving behind the chair confused my siblings into silence. At last I had a bit of peace, and this is where the fun began. I put a sock over each hand creating sock puppets and raised them up to peer over the top of the seat. Calling the puppets Billy and Barney, a series of kids stories were born. Safe to say that my youngest brother and two youngest sisters began laughing, and I promised them that if they were good, that we would have a Billy and Barney story at bedtime.
The first Billy and Barney story began on that day twenty years ago. Over the next eighteen months or so another seven stories became part of bed time. The first five of those stories are up @ short-ficiton.com. I f i ever remember how the other three stories went I will add them too, but how time flies. However it its only in recent years that I began a second series of childrens stories, and they would be 'the Liggle Turkle' stories which I also have @ short-fiction.com. Being an uncle of eight (well soon to be of 8, with litttle Harry due any day now) I guess I have childrens stories for two generations. :)
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