Creative Stories
Here are some creative stories written or told by David Guthrie.
Novel: Walk the Edge
Available for the iPad, Kindle and all other ebook sites
Short Story: Sunset in Eden
Set 500,000 years in the future, the story is in the form of an academic paper describing the fate of the world prior to the Great Ice Age that separated their world from ours.
Tales of Three Snails (children's stories)
Here are some creative stories written or told by David Guthrie.
Novel: Walk the Edge
Available for the iPad, Kindle and all other ebook sites
David Guthrie wrote this novel originally in 2003-4 at a time when he had been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer from which he was not expected to survive. The novel became a vehicle through which he worked through the issues of confronting death, and in the process of writing he rediscovered his faith and a meaning to life. The progress of the characters through the novel, as they come to terms with an approaching death, records, in fictional form, a parallel development that was taking place in the author as he wrote.
Short Story: Sunset in Eden
Set 500,000 years in the future, the story is in the form of an academic paper describing the fate of the world prior to the Great Ice Age that separated their world from ours.
Tales of Three Snails (children's stories)
These snail stories are not 'read', they are told. There is no text: when I tell the stories, even as recorded here, the stories just happen as they are told. I never know, until the story comes to an end, where it is going to end up or what will happen in the course of the story.
The stories always begin with a formula - "Once upon a time....and they lived in a house in the woods," and many a time I will be starting the formula not even knowing how the story will even start. The formula conclusion is about going to sleep because they are so tired.
What is fantastic about this formula is that the children listening quickly cotton on to the fact that they can tell stories too. My story telling sessions usually end up with the children telling stories alternately with me and even as young as five will produce the most amazing stories of imagination.
Do enjoy some of the sample stories. There is an infinite number of them.
David Guthrie
May 2009
The stories always begin with a formula - "Once upon a time....and they lived in a house in the woods," and many a time I will be starting the formula not even knowing how the story will even start. The formula conclusion is about going to sleep because they are so tired.
What is fantastic about this formula is that the children listening quickly cotton on to the fact that they can tell stories too. My story telling sessions usually end up with the children telling stories alternately with me and even as young as five will produce the most amazing stories of imagination.
Do enjoy some of the sample stories. There is an infinite number of them.
David Guthrie
May 2009
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