Heart & Valentine Bings

Excerpt from Jellybean's Notebook: Bleeding Heart

The barbed wire represents Magic. It glows the eerie blue-white that Magic tends to do. My family plays with Magic. Sometimes it plays rough in return.

The heart is upside down—the intergalactic sign of distress. The heart is mine. It's red and rainbow. These are my colors; the colors of my home-sphere Red Rainbow Minor. They are also the colors of my hair.

The heart is bleeding, not over boys—at least not over the boys that I date, though my dad was a boy once, and I guess I wouldn't have minded dating him if he were my age (it's not what you think). Anyway, he's not here anymore so I guess it really doesn't matter what I think about him and what I don't.

—Jellybean Reds, age 17

 

Excerpt from Jellybean's Notebook: Broken Heart

I drew this picture for my best girl-friend, Bluesy—she of the "fashion-accessory" pets. She likes my artwork, especially the sad stuff. Blueberry—my best boy-friend—likes my fun stuff. Though they're twins, Blueberry and Bluesy are very different.

Here's to you, Blues...

—Jellybean Reds, age 17

 

Excerpt from Jellybean's Notebook: Licorice Love

Every Valentine's Day (Yes, we celebrate Valentine's Day here in Cratersville. Red Rainbow Minor, the protective sphere that encapsulates Cratersville and its environs is part of the FOE Constellation—a collection of Earth-themed worlds scattered throughout the Universe.)

Like I was saying, every Valentine's Day, I get requests from the kids at school for my heart-themed pictures. Sometimes, they want to make holograms and cards out of the designs. Other times, they just want a plasma-print for their locker or to hang up in homeroom.

Anyway, Star Struck High is a pretty cool place (for school). You should visit sometime.

—Jellybean Reds, age 17

 

Excerpt from Jellybean's Notebook: Heart Zings

I created Winged Heart and the Zings for Blueberry. It's a play on an old tune from Earth: Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart. (Don't ask me how I know this song.)

First, I created the Winged Heart. Then I surrounded said heart with rainbow-winged creatures. The creatures reminded me of my Bings. That's when the "Zing!" song came to mind. (Okay, I admit it: my dad was a huge Judy Garland fan, that's how I know the song.)

So I took the creatures that reminded me of Bings and gave them all names that ended in Zing!

Aren't I clever. ☺

—Jellybean Reds, age 17

 

Excerpt from Jellybean's Notebook: Skylark

This is soooo embarrassing. (No, I'm not ga-ga over some guy-guy, though that's part of the story) You see, everyone around town seems to know about my family's ability with magic (no not the techno-magic that everyone uses but the script-your-own magic that only those from certain family lines have access to. It's like the difference between owning a diamond mine and buying a diamond in the store. Anyone, can buy a diamond (if you have the money) but very few families actually own a real mine.)

Anyway, my family "owns a mine" and since my family "owns a mine" I get requests for specialized spells. Well anyway, I got this request the other day for a 'love' spell. Love spells are easy—too easy. This explains why after I scripted the initial spell I filled the rest of the time that evening scripting spells for other people I'd like to see go goo-goo over each other. Anyway, it was just a whim and would have remained so if I had remembered to erase all those extra spells before executing the one 'requested' spell the next day...

Anyway, let's just say that is was real interesting to see my history teacher go all googly eyes over Bluesy's weekles. And before you get the wrong idea a 'weekle' is a small floating creature about the size of a guinea pig that Bluesy 'accessorizes' her outfits with. Anyway, I think the weekles that day were pink and, boy oh boy, was my face red.

—Jellybean Reds, age 17

 

Excerpt from Jellybean's Notebook: Mouse in Pocket

I'm a mouse.

I live in a pocket.

I'm shy.

Too shy to come out.

I have a pen.

And a piece of paper.

That's all I need—

Will You Be Mine?

—Mouse, age unknown

 

Message from the Mascot: Wink!

See-See! Told you my designs would be here. But if the police show up-up asking who spray-painted those designs by the rail-rail lines, don't tell them that it was Me (Me-Me). Tell them that it was U (You-You) instead!

—Sunshine, Official Mascot of The Character Factory®

 

Message from the Mascot: Wink-Wink!

Thank you-you for not squealing! Tessla wouldn't be happy if she had to spring me. You see-see, she's a little worried that people might think she's crazy for talking to someone super (super-duper) imaginary like me. I told her not to worry-worry about that. I'm real (really-real). Though I have suspicions about those birds (turdy-birds) she feeds on the porch.

—Sunshine, Official Mascot of The Character Factory®