Hi Everyone!

I'm SO excited to share this wonderful news with you!!

As most of you know I belong to @mariannewest's #freewrite group.

I have been having a ball writing short stories and interacting with all the freewriter's every day.

A week ago I wrote a story based on the prompt Gullible. I posted it like I always do. That night I received a comment from a fellow freewriter that made my heart so happy. @f3nix's comment was to tell me he liked my story so much he was going to read it to his niece that night before bed.

I was so honored by that comment. To have one of my stories liked enough, to tell it to a family member, just meant the world to me.

It also got me thinking!! which can be a dangerous thing!

A few days later as I was reading people's freewrites I noticed that @fireawaymarmot had COOL photo's that went perfectly with his freewrites. I left him a comment about it thinking how lucky he was to have the talent to draw!

After that day, I couldn't get the thought out of my head of how COOL it would be to have pictures to go along with one of my stories.

I did try. I'm a horrible drawer. I can do many things but drawing is not one of them!

So, I thought about it and thought and decided to ask @fireawaymarmot if he would be willing to make some drawings for me to go along with my Gullible Berney story. He could only say No!! BUT he didn't!

Tonight I was checking my comments and I got the BEST gift of all. Five drawings to go with my story!!

From there, things went a bit cRazY here! and I made a video of me saying the words "ahhhh", "and" & "Uhmmmm" way too many times! but at the end of the video, I got to read my story along with the drawings that go with it!

I hope you enjoy the video and if you don't have time to watch it I will be posting the full story and photo's under it.

If you just want to see the reading of Gullible Berney, click on the 6:00 and it will take you right to it!

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Gullible Berney

Gullible Berney lives in a tree asking for candy from whoever stopped by.

He loved his tree. It was on a path that people walked more than Joanie's path, so he knew without a doubt, that he got more candy then Joanie.

Little did he know, Joanie was a firecracker, and had a stash of candy for her own, that she got from Berney.........tho Bernie was none the wiser.

She had dug a hole in the back of his tree and every day would take 1/2 of what Berney got.

She knew Berney was too trusting. He was called gullible for a reason...........

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One day when he mentioned about his candy going down so fast, Joanie told him that candy deflated after a while, so he really had the same amount but it just looked like less.

Berney believed her and even shared his candy with her so Joanie would not have to eat deflated candy........cuz who wants THAT!

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One day Fred came by and dropped off some candy to Berney. He asked Berney about his candy and what did he do with it all.....

Berney, slowly explained, cuz he was talking to a human you know! about the candy deflating and how he ate, every day, as much as he could. How he shared his candy far and wide before it was deflated.

Fred feeling so bad for Gullible Berney.........and being taken for a ride by everyone it would seem..........asked Berney to come live with him.

He had a nice place and was a bit lonely sometimes and then Gullible Berney could have all the candy he wanted! Whenever he wanted.

Berney not being stupid, just gullible, asked for time to pack his belongings. He would be ready in two sec's but would there be an address I can write down for my friends to find me?

Fred said, "Of course! Just leave a note saying you are living with Fredrich William Wonka."

Gullible Berney lived happily ever after.

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Thank you for watching and reading!

Love to All!
Snook