Once Upon a Time I Wrote a Children’s Book
Once Upon a Time I had a friend with five children rant at me about how her kids could never find a pair of matching socks.
This was before matching socks were passe, BTW. This is probably WHY matching socks are no longer required.
At the time I was taking a writing class, and decided to use her plight as inspiration for a story. Thus The Elusive Socks was born.
A long time ago I submitted it to a few publishing houses, and never heard back. I believe I won 3rd place in a contest with it once.
So, today is basically the debut of said story on the internet, and you get to be here for it!
The reason I recorded it at all is because a good friend challenged a bunch of us good friends to read our favorite children’s book out loud.
Any picture book that I might have is packed away in the basement, and I was too lazy to go find them, so I read my own.
There aren’t any illustrations, so all you get is this lovely image I Googled. (It was that or a pile of my geeky socks.)
Someday I might come back to it, find an illustrator, and publish it. But that day is not today.
Tomorrow isn’t looking good either 😉
The Elusive Socks
Please excuse the flub-ups as well as the sound quality.
Try to keep a sense of humor through this madness! And remember, your socks don’t have to match. 🙂
