//------------------------------// // (23) // Story: Choose Your Own Adventure: Maud's Education // by Palm Palette //------------------------------// Maud cleared her throat. “Ahem. “The rock stood atop the hill. The sun lit its stoney side. Around it grew daffodil. Beauty ponysonified.” “That wasn't a bad first draft,” Floral Spectrum said, “but it could be improved with just a bit of editing. Take out the rock parts and you'd have a lovely poem.” Edit out the rocks? Edit out the rocks!? Floral smiled and scribbled in her notebook. “Ooh, this is the start of a great and wonderful apprenticeship. I've already gone ahead and signed you up for the semester. Just think of all the wonderful, happy, smiley poetry we'll write and we won't write a single thing about rocks the whole time.” Nooooooo! BAD END. Start over?