Sybil Bruncheon's Stories For Young Scientists…

Boys and Girls! Did you know that there have been other solar eclipses at other times and in different places?? For instance, at Prendergast Point, Idaho, at the Our Lady of Merciful Miasmas Laying-In Hospital, the nursing staff took a short break on the afternoon of June 17th, 1921. Being educated and extremely scientific ladies, they had prepared thoroughly for this "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"….. as the sky darkened and all conversation quieted, the girls marveled at the other phenomenon surrounding the event.

The birds stopped singing, crickets and other night-time creatures began to hum, and the famous "chilly breeze" passed over them as the moon's shadow crossed the globe…. the extraordinary mystery and stillness of the event was suddenly broken by old Mr. Gregoire, the janitor from the 4th floor who thought it would be funny to bombard the earnest ladies with stolen pastries from the cafeteria! "Moon pies!", he shrieked! 'Moon Pies! MOON PIES!!!", and as if that wasn't shock enough for the screaming and frosting-covered ladies, he proceeded to pull down his overalls only inches from their gaping faces and expose his 68 year old buttocks to them…. Cries of, "My eyes! MY EYES!!!" filled the courtyard of the hospital as medical staff came running….

The papers reported that this was yet another instance of a temporary madness which seems to follow solar eclipses as they occur. No charges were filed, although Mr. Gregoire was given a topical ointment to alleviate an unsightly pimple condition…

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Sybil Bruncheon’s "After Christmas Capers"… Chapter 12; "The Girls”…

Inga had just come in from skating all night with her pals from the Norwegian Olympic team. It wasn’t that she was even close to their ability or athleticism, although everyone commented on her unmatched grace, even as a dedicated amateur, but she did love skating with the Northern lights waving like incandescent curtains while she glided over the frozen pond, imagining herself flying among the stars.

And Beatrice had just wandered in from after an evening with her French lover, the Duc du La Chou Chou. It was true, as all her girlfriends here said, that he was a bit old for her, but then again he was still quite handsome in a distinguished way, and was undeniably… um… energetic… in his “attentions” to her. Generous both in gifts and in his love-making, sometimes he even made Beatrice blush both in the jewelry shops and in the boudoir! On occasion, she could be talked into a hushed confession or two, which would send her girlfriends into fits of giggling tinged with admiration and envy.

The Harleton twins, who insisted on dressing as differently as possible sat beside each other listening to the stories whirling around them, dreaming of their own adventures someday. And adventures they would have too; their family had made a fortune in bisque and porcelains in the mid-1700s and had been at the forefront of the first experiments with plastics in the mid-1800s at the Great Exhibition in London… for Queen Victoria! They’d been told that when they reached a respectable age, they would be allowed to leave home and tour the world as well-to-do and highly educated young ladies (but always as a pair!... which is why they always insisted on dressing differently from each other though identical twins!).

Dotty, always shy and trying to stay out of the way, tiptoed behind Princess Mtumba-Wanda, and Baby Kootch who kept accidentally-on-purpose kicking Clotilda in the shoulder. Clotilda was frantic that Kootch might damage her pearl choker, which was actually glass beads, but she was incredibly vain about both her alabaster skin and the perception by everyone that she had been a member of the nobility in a far-off place like Bulgaria… or Latvia… or a place called Idaho.

Oh, there were others that gathered again to chat, have tea, select a few pastries, and meet old friends. But the whole scene took on some drama when Nanny Prother who was very intent in her conversation with a couple of ballerinas and a Mexican Señorita didn’t notice that the baby perambulator she had wheeled in began to roll away and bumped into the glass! A small crowd of various characters scolded and clucked over her doddering absent-mindedness… which only embarrassed her and made her tearful. When Tink, the little bear from a neighboring zoo display, sneaked in to see what the fuss was all about he was shushed and almost shooed away, but Doreen alerted everyone.  

A little girl had moved slowly up to the window, and no one knew how much she had seen. Doreen was always more aware of the people outside being a bit of a coquette herself and more in tune with the so-called “ways of the world”… She stared the girl down, looking right into her eyes while everyone else adopted the straight-ahead, far-away look that they learned from birth; that look that saved them usually from… God knows what… sometimes. Doreen kept staring and recognized the little girl as DeeDee Krentworthy, the one with the fancy limousine that was longer than the tiny store where they lived. And she remembered that DeeDee had looked in the window just a few days before on Christmas Eve and dismissed everyone standing patiently in the cheery holiday display. “No, Papa, I don’t like any of them! Not even that little bear!”.

Doreen didn’t mind being lumped in with the other dolls, and she certainly didn’t feel strongly about defending any of them from a bully… well, maybe except for Nanny Prother who really was very good-hearted even if there wasn’t ever any baby doll in her perambulator… but Tink! Doreen wouldn’t tolerate someone hurting Tink’s feelings. She began to growl under breath, but Inga and Beatrice shhhhed her when they saw her start to clench her fist. DeeDee’s eyes widened… she saw the fist too. Suddenly she shivered, even in her matching beret and fur jacket ensemble… and she could almost hear through the glass Doreen’s muttered,  “Buzz off, you little shit.”…

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Breaking News from the CNN News Desk: The New "Presidential Library"...

In anticipation of the building of the new trump presidential library, plans are being made for what books should be added to the 14 pages of his personal papers (and his tricycle). Apparently, the "intelligentsia" in trump's circle are reading the following books:

1) "Dick And Jane Meet The Moo-Cow"

2) "When Should You Say Thank-You?"

3) "Mommy Says Little Brother's Brain Is Broken"

4) "Monkeys Make Bad Smells From Their Bottoms... and So Does Grandpa"

5) "When I Drop Stuff, Does It Always Have To Fall On The Ground... Like Our Baby?"

6) "Uncle Ned Shoots Things And Sometimes We Eat Them... or Hang Them On The Bathroom Wall"

7) "When I Go To Sleep, Do I Die For a Short Time, Or Just Wet The Bed?"

8) "Is Drooling Always Bad?"

9) "My Friend Carl Put On A Dress and I Told Him He Was Pretty"

10) "When Fruits and Vegetables Look Like Daddy's Funny Part"

...all of these books are published by the Children's World Is Flat Library... a subsidiary of the Highlights and Jack & Jill magazine publishing empire that serves reputable dentists everywhere.

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Sybil Bruncheon's 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN... Guess Who Came To The Party! #17...

The class had assembled for Halloween Day, All the students in costumes had come!

Maurice was dressed as a gay caba-yay. And Joe, as an old hobo bum.

Debbie decided she was a great movie star. And Phyllis had come as a witch.

Dean was a ghost or maybe a ghoul, He never could tell which was which.

One was a tiger, another a ham… and… um…

Sadly, no one heard the giant lizard-man-thing that came in through the back... The End.

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Sybil Bruncheon's Poems With Purpose for Pre-Schoolers!... "Sweet Little Suzy!"

Sweet Little Suzy wanted just to play
Pretending to do laundry and ironing all day.

Then there were the dishes and changing dolly’s clothes,
Tending to the garden and watering with a hose.

Vacuuming and dusting, then painting baby’s chair. 
Bath time for all seven and combing out their hair. 

No time to sit and chat with friends or have them by for tea. 
Suzy’s just exhausted. “No time”, she cries “For me!”.

Then there come the headaches. An all-day crying jag.
Suzy thinks she’s gaining weight and looking like a hag.

She forgets to feed her dolly, and starves the other six.
She trips upon her dollhouse and gives it several kicks.

And then one night of stress and woe, as all the family sleeps, 
Sleepless Suzy, wild and crazed, into the nursery creeps.

She looks around at ironing board and dolly cloths in stacks.
And crosses to her sleeping babes and kills them with an ax.

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Sybil Bruncheon's Poems With Purpose for Pre-Schoolers!... "Edgar Fitzwilly!"

Perpetually naughty and riddled with spite,
Edgar Fitzwilly was bad day and night!
He'd break all the dishes.
Vex everyone's wishes.
But was fine when he was tied out of sight!

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Sybil Bruncheon's "HOLLYWOOD HISTORY ON THIS DATE!".... February 9th, 1931...

... Like so many other children of the Depression, little Spiffy Markle had been brought by hopeful-but-desperate parents to California in the hope that he might become a star. Blessed with good looks, a naturally cheerful disposition, a lovely singing voice, and a keen understanding of Shakespeare (his prekindergarten production as KING LEAR had the New York critics swooning!), he seemed born for the silver screen. His screen tests with Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and the Barrymores were stellar. And so he made the rounds with his parents from one studio to another for interviews.... Warners, Columbia, RKO, Universal.....Unfortunately, here he is at the lesser ranked "Really Swell Pictures Studio" being photographed by Pete the Panda.

The session went smoothly, unlike the photo shoot the previous day at MGM when the studio's lion tried to EAT little Spiffy while he photographed him. Louis B. Mayer was mortified...  Sadly, Spiffy's career floundered in the Really Swell Pictures Studio attempt at the children's market. They never matched the success of the OUR GANG films, with their "POOPY-PANTY PLAYHOUSE", although some of the musical numbers were well imagined....and of course, Spiffy's voice was actually heard in the "talkies". His transition into adult pictures never really worked either. 

Tragically, Pete the Panda became a "booze hound".....he began bootlegging cheap liquor he made from fermented bamboo that he got imported especially for "religious and dietary traditions" and the US State Department "looked the other way". He was so lovable, and very popular in the "Un-BEAR-able Comedies" he starred in the 1920s and 1930s. He ended up in a sanitarium in 1945. Spiffy left the studios and went on to sell real estate in San Bernardino.... but he never forgot his old studio-mate and first friend at Really Swell. He rescued Pete, and they made a killing in the bamboo patio furniture craze of the 1940s!..... You see? There actually ARE a few happy endings in Hollywood... 

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