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openTristan and Isolde with a happy ending Literature
I read a version of Tristan and Isolde in which a kind of time share agreement was worked out in which Isolde would be with one man while trees had leaves and with the other when the leaves fell. Tristan's rival picked the time leaves would be off suce winter nights are longer. Isolde then revealed that Morrois forest only had three kinds of tree, none of which lose their leaves.
Does anyone know where I can find that version of the story?
openLooking for Podcasts episodes of two creepy pastas. Literature
I’m looking for professional recording of a reading two creepy pastas. I’m looking for “Willow creek” and “Razor Games”. I found the no audio stories no problem with some digging, however the audio ones seem to out of reach. Please help. :) thanks in advance.
openIllustrated Kid's book about a pig and friends Literature
This was a series of books involving Funny Animals - the pig owned a house, stood on his hind legs and wore a coat, and was friends with a rabbit/hare who might've been named something like Rosemary. The only further details I remember is one time the rabbit/hare went to the beach, and one time the narrative mentions the pig is friends with the birds flying south during the fall.
open[solved]Girl who daydreams a lot novel Literature
Novel about a girl named Victory or Victoria who daydreams about things like being an ice skater, becoming class president, being a spy, etc.
Edited by WalkinshadowsopenMiddle-grade/YA(?) novel where a teenager pretends to be a dad to win a ticket to space (FOUND) Literature
The main character is a tall teenager with a beard who looks far older than he is. Once, the staff at his high school mistook him for the new teacher. He joins some sort of game show where dads compete with their children... IN SPACE! One of his friends pretends to be his daughter. There's one scene where the game show's on-site doctor checks the main character and says he has the metabolism of a sixteen-year-old. He nervously says something along the lines of "what a miracle!"
Edited by SerrafewopenA short scifi story where a girl takes a test Literature
I remember a lot about the story, but not the title.
The premise of the story is that many people (and pets as well) have become processing units for various things, and the protagonist is a young girl taking a test to determine her aptitude.
In the beginning it mentions that her mom "mainly stays in the living room, but she always extended her CPU to the dining room for dinner because family time was important" (paraphrased). Besides her mom, one of her older brothers and her pet dog have also becomes processing units.
When she gets to the testing area, she meets two other children, a boy and a girl, and kind of becomes friends with them. The girl clogs up a sink in the bathroom with her sweater. She mentions this to her parents at dinner later, and they're uneasy about it. Onto the test, it's a little vague, but I remember it mentioning that one section was about determining note pitches and she didn't like it.
After she goes to bed, she stays up and eavesdrops on her parents. They talk about how the other two kids she met during the test likely won't pass it. They then talk about her oldest brother, who was artistically gifted and didn't pass it either.
She goes online, and visits her dog, who's busy controlling a traffic light. She visits her other brother, who doesn't recognize her. Somehow, she comes across a supercomputer-like figure and talks to him about her two new friends. He looks up their test scores and decides to pass them both, saying that they're needed.
That's where the story ends, I believe.
opencomic picture book about inanimate objects going into people's dreams using a house (solved) Literature
the objects are three sheep plushes at the beginning, a blanket that becomes a bear, an ink quill that becomes a bird who only communicates through writing, and a sock monkey. the three latter objects are added through the story, with one sheep plush leaving for each new object that comes in.
the story is that the objects are in some kind of magic house that goes into a kid's nightmare and fixes said nightmare. there's one nightmare where a kid is in his underwear at school and he has to present something to the class. unfortunately that's all i remember
Edited by pingastroperopen[SOLVED] Old Book Where Protagonist Girl is Really Her Sister Literature
I read about it on this wiki and here's what I can remember: Old book, maybe 1800s or early 1900s? Protagonist is a young girl maybe 7-9 who is confined to a house or a chair and is kept in an infant-ish state. She had an older sister with the exact same name and possibly the same appearance. Sister was attacked (raped?) and died (suicide?) later on. Big twist is that the sister doesn't exist and what happened to the sister actually happened to the protagonist. Also, everyone in the story sucks and aren't helping the protagonist all that much.
Edited by ISS600openBook i heard on audible Literature
Characters i remember: luca a little boy A talking dog A pilot who sells tacos
Brent foster a news reporter, his wife and child (disappeared)
A serial killer A pregnant young lady
A mom and her daughter and their neighbors
Ok so i head this series on audible years ago. everyone wakes up to no power and many people have disappeared. There are many story lines. spoiler the dead people are floating down the river. Some flah happened at like 3am and there is like a little group of people who knew it would happen As some of the story line connect i know luca all the sudden grows up like 10 years or something. There are.demon like monster i think they suck the sole outta people
openHelping a friend Literature
A friend's trying to track down a series she remembered as a kid; apparently it was advertised pretty heavily at the school book fairs she attended (she was living in the Philippines at the time). Here's the infor I got from her:
"I remember a book/comic book series that they were advertising because us kids liked it and it was this girl who was basically really smart and a sort of unwill [sic] detective her outfit vibe was like, emo or punk, just generally darker and "gloomier" colours and her sister and dad were sunshines"
"smart girl helps people and she has a male sidekick/friend who I think is brunette and is the reason she's helping in the first pplace [sic] she's a recluse and very smart from what I vaguely remember"
"I remember there being a goldfish at the end of one of the comics? the comics were the size of magazines btw dont [sic] know if that matters she has like black-blue hair"
openChildren's story about an iceman Literature
I vaguely remember from school a children's story - structured like a fairy tale, although I don't think there were any fantastical elements - about an iceman who keeps trying to get a household to buy ice, even though they keep telling him they have no use for it. Eventually an old man dies, and the iceman refuses to sell to them. I think we were supposed to be on the iceman's side for some reason? Not sure why.
openBook - Kid pretends to have "appendatocious" Literature
It's a novel, and a kid tries to play sick by clutching their (I can't remember if it was a boy or a girl, but I think it might have been a boy) belly and saying, "I think I have appendatocious!". Someone else (the kid's father, I think), replies, "That's appendicitis!".
openWhat's that short story with the picture that kills you? SOLVED Literature
The story uses a weapons-grade meme that it refers to as a "Basilisk" to kill a bridge full of officers.
Edited by dvorakopenA girl, a boy, a land that is a chessboard Literature
This is the longest of long shots because I can hardly remember any details about the book, but I'm hoping someone can jog my memory.
It's a young adult or middle grade fantasy novel that I'm guessing was published in the 20th century - I want to say it had a 70s, 80s or early 90s vibe for some reason.
The two main characters are a boy and a girl, both teenage or around that age. These two characters do not know each other and are physically separate at the beginning of the book but end up meeting each other during it.
The setting is vaguely fantastic but I can't remember any particular features except that the land they're in has square areas of alternating color, texture, landscape, or what have you. It turns out that if seen from a great height the land resembles (or is) a giant chessboard.
I believe there may have been other chess motifs such as knights in black (or red?) or white armor.
The overall vibe/atmosphere of the book is what I remember most because unlike a lot of children's fantasy it was not extremely plot heavy (that I recall) - instead it had a dreamy, almost somber, mysterious air. For example, I believe it starts in medias res. The characters are approaching each other from opposite directions for different reasons. They may not know how they got to this land. etc. It was such a unique story and written unlike anything I had read previously. This is why I want to say it seems like a 70s novel, because although it was clearly written for young readers and about young people the plot seemed very grown-up. (I sort of want to compare it to Lloyd Alexander except I'm pretty sure it isn't him - the story had far less fantasy trappings than average, it could almost have been scifi-fantasy.)
It's been such a long time since I read this book and I'm sure I've gotten much of it mixed up or forgotten. But I do remember a boy, a girl, and a land that is a chessboard. Thanks for reading and for any help/leads.
Edited by pellycanopenEvil Underwear Literature
I dont remember what it was called. there was a young boy protagonist. he never changed his underwear, so they were all ratty and torn, so his mother took him to a store to get new ones. the pair he tried on were sentient, and decided to use him as a host, and wouldnt come off. so he wore them out of the store and they started controlling his life. thats where the specifics end. anyone else read this book?
openBook series about spies in a school Literature
So the protagonist has to move to this school for spies after something happens to his parents or something. He's descended from great spies so he has natural talent for it. There were some fantasy elements to it too. Like some sort of knife that never misses a target and the MC's best friend was like a werewolf or angel or something. I remember the title of the first book was an acronym for the school's name. Its been a really long time so my memory of it is really vague.
Edited by ParkwayopenDid I Mandela Effect a Whole Book Into Existence? Literature
When I was a library volunteer in like 2003-2004 ish, I came across this book I've never been able to find again, even though I remember quite a bit about it, so I'm wondering if I misremembered whole chunks of it or just made it up wholesale?
Anyway, it's a paperback romance. It was a platoon of modern day soldiers (Swedish, or some other brand of Nordic possibly) who time travel to the early medieval period to win a historic battle they originally lost. Because patriotism I guess? Nationalism comes before the space-time continuum apparently lol. They accidentally time travel directly into a nunnery. Shenanigans commence and one soldier and one nun(novice maybe?) fall in love. There is a sex scene involving chocolate sauce.
So does this book exist or is it the horny hallucination if a 14 year old? XD
openI have 2 strange ones Literature
First this book I read in school in the early 2000s, it was a scholastic book about a girl and her dog during some kind of (storm?) natural disaster and her getting separated from the rest of her family. I believe it had a girl and her dog standing in the rain on the cover of the book I lost the book when I was a kid and I've been wondering what it was called for a while.
Second this is a product not a show/movie but again...early 2000s does anyone remember these brand of colorful drinks/juices sold in convenience stores in the US that had the label of a dragon on them? They had kind of a milky taste. I ask because I'm 99% sure these drinks were discontinued as I haven't seen them in years. Wondering about things from when I was a kid today I suppose
openReference? Literature
Hi in the benedetto character page it says that there is a musical adaptation of the count of monte cristo where he's a pretty boy tenor type. ¿What version is that?

Okay so this book was about a girl who falls into another world by staring at her schedule for too long, and then she has to save the world she fell into. Some things that I remember from it are the main characters mom over scheduling her life, one character almost literally getting bored to death, the main character meeting an old woman stuck in an some other dimension or something, and people running out of time because of an evil clock tower. Some of these might be wrong I only read this once in middle school.