An original story using tongue twisters, written by our student Sashrika Prasad.

Sashrika is 13 years old, a young writer from Gurugram. The beautiful colors, flowers, and sunsets encourage her to write about deep emotions and feelings. We are proud to have her as a student of the Little Writers Program, an Creative Writing Program under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Sashrika for this exemplary true self-expression.

When You Scream For Ice-Cream

 “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter’s butter If I put it in my bitter, it will make my butter batter but a bit of better butter will make my batter better So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter. Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. The putter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter and made her batter bitter. But a bit of better butter makes a better batter. So, Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter Making Betty Botter’s bitter batter better.” Muttered Ms. Kuhu as she tried to fix a bunch of words in the last brain cell that she had. In the middle of all this, her dad walked in on her talking to herself and joked “Why are you talking to yourself? There are people in this house that you can mutter along with.” Kuhu countered telling him that she was trying to remember the dialogues of a reel that her mother wanted to do with her and speak of the devil, her mother came into the room. An idea popping in her head she suggested her dad join Drama Queen Kuhu in her reel. After a lot of convincing her father finally agreed.

Regretting making that sort of a decision he started muttering like daughter, “Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick. The sixth sitting sheet-slitter slit six sheets. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.” When her father was ready to record Kuhu accidentally inhaled laughing gas from the tube sitting next to them which was supposed to be for another reel. Being stuck in a question of which witch is which although in their case which reel is which they decided to do the reel with laughing gas first.

About a million and one laughs later drama queen Kuhu and her father were looking like shapeless sash sags slowly so they begged Kuhu’s mother, “Cooks cook cupcakes quickly please.” Also being tired her mother said, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for I scream.” All of them agreeing to it jumped up and like Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards towards the gate. In the middle peeking into Kuhu’s sister’s room over speaking the words, “If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.” They asked, “We are all screaming for ice cream, do you want to scream along?” the sister replied, “No thank you, I have got too much homework. Although would you happen to if Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree? Or if a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?” all three of them nodding in sync asked, “Do you want something?” the sister said, “Yes could you get me Double bubble gum, bubbles double.”

After having ice cream, they came back to record the reel they were originally supposed to. But……. As far as problems go theirs was bad. They had forgotten the dialogues they had spent hours remembering. Like Billybob, they blabbered boldly but all the wrong words came out of their mouth while a big black bear sat on a big black rug behind them. While they were trying to remember all the right words Kuhu’s sister walked in, “Guys, did you check the news? Things have been going crazy. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons – balancing them badly.” “Oh, I have to go, Ed had edited it, Ed had edited it, Ed had edited it, Eddie finally edited it so I have to check.”

“So about the reel………………you want to try again tomorrow?” exclaimed Father right before they saw a kitty eating chicken in the kitchen. Judging the crazy day they just had drama queen’s mother said nodded sighing, “Yeah, let’s definitely do it tomorrow.”

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