For this month’s The Adventure of Little Papoe, I am challenging myself to make it into a flash. His adventure is now less than 150 words. I am including this imaginary adventure of my little Papoe in Red’s Flash In The Pan 🙂
Next month Papoe will have a much longer story 🙂
Read other chapter by clicking this image 🙂
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One afternoon, Papoe, the little pink belly short necked turtle, meets a strange cockroach.
“What are you doing, sir?” asks Papoe.
“I am walking backward, can’t you see, child?” Answers Mr. Cockroach.
“I can see that…but why are you walking backward?”
“I found a newspaper yesterday and I saw a human male who became famous for walking backward. I always wanted to be famous and I thought that I can be the first cockroach in the world that walks backward,” he smiles proudly.
“Hmm…,” Papoe’s little brain starts working, “But…Mr. Cockroach, do you know any human journalist who will write about you in human’s newspaper? How can human and other cockroaches know about you if no one writes about you?”
Mr. Cockroach stops and looks at Papoe sourly, and then he walks away normally while murmuring “Spoil Sport!”
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Total words: 138
For the word: Backward, Maximum words: 150 words.
Novroz
Kroten
Kurome
Papoe
Kame (R.I.P)
A moonwalking cockroach? LOL! You are wise little Papoe
Hey…I didn’t think of that before. Walking backward means moonwalking 😉
A Cockroach Jackson.
Hey Papoe,
I can walk backwards (always useful when playing chase in the house!) – do you think I’ll become famous?! 🙂
Have a fun day
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
You know, I often walk backward too 😉 (that’s where my Mommy got the idea for the story)… maybe you and I can walk backward together, Snoop 😉
I guess cockroaches don’t have their own cable channel?
They don’t!! Just like we turtles 😦
Maybe we, animals, should ask producers to make special channel for us.
I think you’re right. Humans have an endless number of channels. Every animal should have at least one cable channel for themselves.
Totally agree with you Bink!!
At least one for turtles and one for wombies
Hmmm… afraid the fewer cockroaches I see in this lifetime, the better! 😉
Ah…poor Mr. Cockroach, I guess even if a human record his action not many want to see him 😉
BOL, I don’t like Cockroaches but that was funny xx00xx
Mollie and Alfie
Thank you Mollie 🙂
I don’t like cockroach too…but I think they deserve a chance to be in a story 😉
He’d likely make the front page news.
Will he? ah…my bad then, I shouldn’t discourage him 😦
I’ll tell him to try again when I meet him again.
Looky there! Someone wrote about Mr. Cockroach after all!
Ah!! You’re right Aunty Fleabyte! My Mommy wrote about him. Not bad for Mr. Cockroach 😉
Nice story! Dear
Thank you Niharika 🙂
aa! my pleasure. 🙂
Good thinking, Papoe!
Thank you Finn 🙂
Hi Papoe, nice to meet you. You’re super cute. If Chester and Gretel saw a cockroach they would probably try to eat it 🙂
Thank you Aunty Jessica 🙂
hehehe…if I am bigger than Mr. Cockroach I might eat him too 😉 but Mommy will be furious and definitely will ask me to thrown it up.
Eeeek. I don’t like cockroaches, so I’d probably ask Rita to chase it away if we saw one – whether it was walking backwards or not! We used to live in Bermuda and they have BIG cockroaches there. Oh, the horror! (And they fly at certain times of the year!) Maybe your next story could be about a flying cockroach…
Oh yes…cockroaches here also fly! I hate it when they fly.
I think this will be my only cockroach story 😉
I want an animal to look silly and I use one that I didn’t like..cockroach!
I knew a guy who walked to work backwards every day. I worried he would get hit by a car. Maybe the cockroach was on his way to work? Have a great day!
Really?? Wow, what a weird guy! I wonder why he did that.
No…he was on his way to be famous 😉
Have a great week to you too Kris 🙂
LOL. Poor Mr. Cockroach can’t even win over a little turtle. Now if Papoe wanted to walk backwards, I suspect someone would write about it. 🙂
He already walks backward 😉
I spotted him doing it three times now but everytime I took my camera he walkwed normal again. I really want to record his unusual walk. And that’s where the idea for this story came from 😉
Thank you, Audrey 🙂
this is a cute story.
Thank you Sheilagh 🙂
As cockroaches are almost indestructible I think we can learn a lot from them. Papoe should keep him as friend.
They are indestructible…so do we 😉 we have hard shell.
Keep him as friend? I think Mommy will be furious if I take him home.
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I think he would have done just as well looking for a video journalist. It would have made entertainment television. 😉
xxx
Ah! That’s a great idea. He can publish it on youtube 😉
Thank you Red.