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 The Truth About Stories: Aimee’s Mad Lib

There is a story I know. It’s about the   _______________________ and

                                                                   (#1: a planetary object)

how it   _____________________         on the  ______________ of  a/n  _______

          (#2: 3^rd person singular verb)                   (#3: A body part)            (#4: animal)

…And the  ____________________ never _____________________

                  (#5: same animal as #4)        (#6: 3^rd person singular verb)

away. One time…a/n ________________ girl…asked about the  

                                      (#7: adjective)      

______________________ and the _______________________. If the   

(#8: Same animal as #4/5)          (#9: Same as #1.) 

_________________ was on the ________________  of  a ________________, what   

(#10: Same as #1/9)              (#11: Same as #3)        (#12: same as #4)

was ___________________ the ____________________? Another

         (#13: preposition)          (#14: same as #4/12)

________________________…And ________________ that ___________________?   

(#15: same as #4/12/14)                      (#16: preposition)   (#17: same as #4/12/14)

Another _________________________…The girl began to ___________ …So  

              (#18: same as #4/12/14/17)                                  (#19: verb)

how many ____________________________ are there? she wanted to know. 

                   (#20: plural of 4/12/14/17/18)

No one knows for sure…but it’s ________________ all the way down.

                                                       (#21: same as 20)

______________________________________________________________________

Kirsten's Mad Lib:

No more __________________. But then who will ___________ for

               (#1 noun, plural)                                         (#2 verb)

us? Who will ______________ for us? Who will remind us of our relationship

                        (#3 verb)

with the  _______________? Who will _____________ us our ________________?

                   (#4 noun)                             (#5 verb)                      (#6 noun, plural)

The one about the ___________ and the _______________, for instance.

                                  (#7 noun)                 (#8 noun, plural)

_________ it. It’s yours. Do with it what you will. Tell it to your

(#9 verb)

__________________. Turn it into a ___________. __________ it.

(#10 noun, plural)                            (#11 noun)         (#12 verb)

But don’t say in the years to come you would have __________________ your

                                                                                (#13 verb, past tense)

differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve _____________________

                                                                                 (#14 verb, past tense)

it now.