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Never too Late – A Story Submitted by Raima Imran

December 22, 2019 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

Raima Imran is the student of the Creative Writing Program by Author Ayesha Marfani. The author conducts online classes for the kids and this is what they have written during the class. The kids also practiced the art of storytelling. This is the original unedited work of the kid.

Please appreciate it by commenting!

If you wish to be the part of the class then contact +923138997470.

Never Too Late

 

Kevin gazed at the final present. It was a present from his Aunt Leena for turning five years old. It was covered with a blue metallic wrapping paper and a pink ribbon with golden 5’’s on it. Kevin tore the wrapping paper and inside was a beige teddy bear. He named it “Teddy”. He knew right away that he and Teddy were going to be best friends.

All of a sudden, everything faded into a blur. And Teddy found himself staring at the ceiling while lying down on his bed.

Teddy jumped out of his bed and turned to his closet. He scurried out of the house and glanced around. “Empty as usual!” sighed Teddy as he crossed the road.

He peeped through the window of one of his friend’s house. Inside he saw his friend, Bunny the stuffed rabbit, sitting on the sofa looking glum because he wanted to be played with.

“Everyone ….” Thought Teddy, “Everyone in PettyVille is glum”.

He was right. PettyVille, the home for old toys who are not being played with anymore, was a gloomy place. The inhabitants rarely left their houses or interacted with each other. The weather wasn’t a big help either. It was always cold and gray.

As Teddy gazed at the small houses on the street, the chilly wind swirled around him, making him shiver. He remembered how he used to love the wind on his face when Kevin used to make him zoom all around the house on a toy airplane. He could never understand why Kevin gave up playing with him.

He nearly slipped on the wet road because he was too lost in his thoughts. Drops of rain came down splashing on Teddy’s forehead as he walked back to his house. His house was small and gray, just like all the other houses in town.

Before he entered his house, he glared at the hole that connected PettyVille to the real world. “My only hope to meet Kevin again is through that hole”, whispered Teddy to himself.

“No!” said Teddy, “It’s too risky … I can’t do it without a thorough plan”.

He glanced at the tiny shop a meters away. Maybe he could visit the shop to get ideas of how an escape from this gloom hole be made. So he went in.

The shopkeeper was a monster with six eyes. He didn’t talk at all. He just made gestures in response to Teddy’s questions.

Teddy sprinted back to his home. He rushed inside his house and flew towards his bed. He was hopeful but also exhausted and soon dozed off.

He startled awake as the first ray of light hit his face. The cogs in his head started spinning as he clumsily headed towards the window to examine the hole.

“Aha!”, Teddy cried, “There’s a nail sticking out from the edge of the hole. I can easily throw a lasso to grab on to it.”

After a couple of hours of fine-tuning, he came up with a spectacular plan. He was happy with himself. He could finally meet Kevin. At the same time, Teddy heard a creak from the door and he saw Kevin through the hole, tossing stuff around and mumbling something about not being able to find the TV remote.

Teddy woke up the next morning all excited because it was almost time to meet Kevin. He grabbed the lasso and hurried outside. He bumped into the fence and got scratched by a shrub in his haste. But nothing slowed him down. Upon reaching the hole, he threw up his lasso but it was only after a few failed attempts that it finally got hooked. He swiftly mounted and moved towards the top. Once he reached the top he leaped down into the real world.

Teddy heard Kevin watching TV in the distance, so he followed the sound to find him. As soon as he found Kevin, he jumped in front of the TV and shrieked, “Why won’t you play with me anymore? I never could understand why you stopped!”

Kevin did not reply for a long time and just stared at Teddy in fascination. When he did find his words, all that came out of his mouth was “What?!!, Whaaa … How?!, Who are you?”

This made Teddy even more agitated. He unplugged the TV and stuttered in anger “How can you not know who I am? I am your best friend!”

Kevin’s face turned red with fury and he screamed “I DON’T even care anymore. I am not a little child who plays with Teddy bears and monster trucks. Now go away. You are making me miss my program!” He stomped over to Teddy, snatched the plug from him and threw him all the way to the end of the corridor.

Pain shot through Teddy’s body but he somehow managed to get back on his feet and walked all the way back to his home. With a heavy heart, he limped towards his bed and sat down. He could have never expected what had just happened. But he felt even more determined to get through to Kevin and so he started pondering over a plan B.

He kept thinking, “If only I can make Kevin see what it is like down here in PettyVille! If only he could see what his carelessness is doing to all of us, I am sure he will change”. Just then an idea popped into his head. He had seen Kevin tweaking toy machines and had learnt a thing or two about them himself. He worked all night to make a machine that would help him carry out his plan. He seemed very happy about how clever his plan was. He couldn’t wait to carry it out.

After all the hard work, Teddy laid down on his bed and gazed at his amazing creation. He named it “The Shrink-a-majigger”.

He scurried outside with his masterpiece and tied a rope to it. Once again he threw up his lasso a few times until it was strong enough to carry the Shrink-a-majigger up. He used all his strength to pull himself and the machine up towards the hole.

He hopped down and saw Kevin, slouched on the sofa, playing a game on his phone. He crept up behind Kevin and shrunk him to the size of a toy.

“What do you want with me now?” screeched Kevin. “You’ll see.” was Teddy’s reply. He dragged Kevin into PettyVille while Kevin squirmed and kicked.

As Teddy hauled Kevin through the streets of PettyVille, Kevin saw a one of his toy robots, Buzzer, sitting alone on a bench staring into space while gray clouds thundered. It soon started to rain but buzzer did nothing to save himself from harm. He had the gloomiest look on his face. But he wasn’t the only one in town with that look. Everywhere Kevin went, he saw a sadness in everyone’s eyes. It was very troubling for Kevin.

By the end of it Kevin was almost in tears. “I didn’t know what I did that could cause all of this. I feel so sorry!”, he sobbed. Teddy put his hand on Kevin’s shoulder. “There’s no reason to cry,” he said softly. “Follow me”.

Teddy took Kevin back out of Perryville. He asked Kevin to stand straight while he hit the reverse button on the Shrink-a-majigger. Soon Kevin turned to his normal size.

Kevin was relieved to be back to himself but he did not leave right away. He hurriedly moved some boxes around from the corner of his room until he saw the dusty lid of his old toy box with a hole on the side. He opened the lid of PettyVille with a smile.

The sun started to shine brighter as Kevin took his old toys out of the box and remembered how much he loved playing with them. He thought about how foolish he was to think that he was too old to play with his toys. He now realized that you are never too old to play.

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Illustration Activity conducted for Pakistani Kids by Author Ayesha Marfani

July 15, 2019 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author 2 Comments

I am an author and have a lovely fan base. These lovely fans are very eager to learn and try new things.  Recently, I shared one of my story with them and they came up with amazing illustrations.

Read the story and appreciate the young illustrators in the comments.

White flower and black butterfly

The tired and weary black butterfly flew to the red rose. It said, “Please let me sit on you.”

The red rose lashed the butterfly saying, “Look at your ugly colour. I won’t let you sit on me.”

The black butterfly cried and flew to the distant land.

***

It saw a yellow sunflower. It loved the colour. The butterfly asked the sunflower, “Can I rest on your lovely petals.”

The sunflower gnarled saying, “Oh you black ugly creature, look at my beautiful colour and see your black colour. Go away”

The butterfly felt hurt and took flight.

***

It reached the beautiful lands of Hawaii. There it saw the beautiful violet flowers. They seemed dancing with the wind. It reached one of the purple-colored flowers that looked soft and delicate.

It said, “O delicate flower, please let me curl on your soft leaves.”

The flower spat the absorbed dewdrop on the face of the butterfly saying, “How dark and gloomy you look, go away.”

****

The black butterfly felt shaky on such hate and flew to find another home. It flew and reached a garden with moist soil. It had beautiful blue Hydrangea. The flower looked glowing in the sun. It reached the flower to ask the permission for napping on its curled petals when it overheard the flower saying to the Pink Hydrangea, “I hope that unsightful butterfly never comes near to us. It is so black, and if it sat for us, no one would love to look at us.”

The pink Hydrangea replied, “I wish it never curse me with its awful body.”

The butterfly lost all hopes of finding a beautiful house.

***

While it was sitting with teary eyes thinking why she was so black; her eyes caught a glorious sight. It saw a beautiful white lily dancing with joy. It had dew drops settled on its petals. The butterfly was lost in the glory of the lily.

The lily noticed someone looking at it keenly. When it turned to meet the staring eyes, it was shocked to see a beautiful black butterfly. The lily said to itself, this butterfly is amazing, look at its velvety black wing and the silver lining on them. I have never seen such black beauty.’

It stared at the butterfly wishing to start the conversation. It wanted the butterfly to touch its petals with its velvety soft wings. The butterfly cried and said, “You might be wondering how black, ugly and defaced I look, of course, I will never curse your beauty by curling on your petals.”

The white lily felt sad and answered, “No, I was thinking what beautiful velvety wings you have and I love the silver lines on them. I just wished if you would like to make me your resting place and together we can add beauty to each other.”

The butterfly felt overwhelmed and sat on the white petals. The combination felt amazing and became the greatest attraction for the passersby. People loved the combination so much that they designed their homes and dresses and cars on this theme.

***

Red rose, violets, sunflower, blue and pink Hydrangea all wanted the butterfly to sit on them so that people may notice them as well. The black butterfly added to the beauty of each of them. People loved the combination of black with red, black with violet, black with yellow, black with pink and black with blue.

The butterfly felt happy as he had so many places to rest and it loved everyone equally yet the love it had for white lily made them look the best together.

***

 

Check the published work by Author Ayesha Marfani on this link:

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Pakistanis can place their orders for the books on this link:

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Filed Under: Learners' Treasure Chest, Words Shaker Tagged With: children stories, illutration, Pakistani blogger, Pakistani children, Short stories, young talent

Children Books by Ayesha Marfani Featured on Dawn News

June 1, 2019 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

Today I see this video teary-eyed. Never in my life, I thought that my books will influence this way. The storytelling session is conducted on the chapter from my book “In the Light of Seerah.”

The channel is none other then Dawn News and the program is Ronaq e Aftar.

Today the words are failing me.

I would like to thanks Samreen Fawad and Shafaq Irfan Khan for giving me this pleasure. My words cannot show gratitude today.

Samreen you have done a wonderful job!

May Allah accept this! Ameen.

https://youtu.be/laK92aSVlKk

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Link for international buyers:

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Books by Ayesha Marfani:

Filed Under: News Feed Tagged With: children books, children stories, diverse books, diverse books for children, muslim children books

Cover Reveal – Fairy Tales of Ordinary Children

September 18, 2018 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

Cover Reveal for my first local title:

Feast your eyes with this amazing piece of art.

This is the cover page of “Fairy Tales for Ordinary Children.”

Isn’t it awesome?

A big thanks to Isha Aamir who seems my soul sister and knows how to paint my stories.

Target Age: 6 to 13 years

Price: 650 excluding delivery

About the book:

Fairy Tales of Ordinary Children tells the stories of a group of friends whose life problems were remarkably similar to the characters from famous fairy tales.

A beautiful girl as white as snow had to cope with a beauty and status-conscious mother and a poor starving boy had only a cow.

A girl with long and blonde hairs was stuck up with her aunt who made potions and a pretty girl faced so many hardships because of her stepmother.

The children waited for the magical turning point in their lives but things got even worse and they lost hope in the term ‘happily ever after.’ One of them located what they lacked in bringing a change in their lives. Soon they knew the secret to live a’ happily ever after life.’

 

Filed Under: Diverse Characters, News Feed Tagged With: books, children books, children stories, diverse books for children, fairy tales, multicultural children books, muslim children books, pakistani children book, we need diverse books

A Young Reader Deserves many Gifts

May 16, 2018 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

Miss Never Pleased is a book that has amazing gifts for kids at the end. Let us see the snapshots of those gifts.

Moreover, each of the book buyers from Pakistan will get these beautiful bookmarks free.

Filed Under: Learners' Treasure Chest, News Feed Tagged With: book addict, bookish, books for libraries, children activities, Children book, children stories, let's learn together, multicultural books, we need diverse books

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