Ocean Monkeys

 

By Glen L. Bledsoe 

Now you can have your own Ocean Monkeys! This kit gives you everything you need: water purifier, instant live eggs and super-growth food. Ocean Monkeys are the easiest pets to care for. Aquarium has a ventilated lid which opens easily from the inside.

• The original, amazing live ocean monkeys.

• A classic set to care for your very own adorable Aqua-Pets.

• The stainless steel and quartz glass aquarium is equipped with a glowing light which acts like a night light for your child’s bedroom allowing them to watch these scamps swarm and play as your child falls asleep in pleasant dreams.

• Ocean monkeys will keep your child’s room free of spiders, rodents, and any other unwelcome guests!

• Your Ocean Monkey pets may grow up to 12 feet (about 4 meters) in diameter and live up to two hundred years!

Get your Ocean Monkeys today!

Emma and the Tangerine Men

 By Glen L. Bledsoe 

"Emma, are you eating in bed again?" her mother yelled from the kitchen.

"No, Mama," she said hastily shoving an unfinished tangerine under her blankets. "Thomas," she whispered, "Hide it." Thomas also pushed his food under the blankets.

Their father opened the door to their bedroom. "Two pieces of fruit are missing from the plate in the kitchen. Do either of you know anvthing about that?"

"No, Papa," Emma lied.

"You are welcome to have it, but please eat it at the table. And whatever you do, don't swallow the seeds. Tangerine men will grow inside of you and crawl out of your mouth during the night."

Emma shivered, felt with her hand under the blanket and pushed the tangerine deeper under her covers. "We would never do such a thing, Papa." But she had. Both she and her brother had swallowed seeds when they were startled by their mother's call.

At the stroke of midnight Emma woke to a sound. She opened her eyes to see her brother crawling into the terrarium they kept on their nightstand. More frighteningly she saw the tangerine men and tangerine roots growing in their beds. Her brother was trying to hide, but there was no room for Emma in the glass box. She backed herself against the wall.

The tangerine men, however, showed no interest in Emma or her brother. They stood from the beds, gathered their roots and left the bedroom through the door.

Emma and her brother never swallowed tangerine seeds again. And they only ate food at the table.

A Study in Reds

 By Glen L. Bledsoe

In this illustration we see famous detective Stanislock Lenin (far left and Dr. Hanson, his assistant and biographer, (center) receiving a report from agent Svyatopolk Jones on the latest machinations of Stanislock's evil twin brother Vladimir Lenin. (Yes, another evil Vlad!) The epic struggle between the two brothers will come to a head when they struggle on the edge of a swimming pool in downtown Los Angeles where they both will plunge into the deep end and disappear until the next book.

Aquarium Dreams

 By Glen L Bledsoe

As the hour grows late, and all is still,
The tanks take on life that's dark and chill.
The water fizzes with eerie sound,
As creatures inside become unbound.

Moonlight through the glass so clear,
Reveals a scene that's ever weird.
Their eyes of gold twist and stare,
As if to say, "Dreamers better beware."

Children sleep, roam in their dreams, 
While in the tanks, with dripping seams.
Creatures swim and swirl with eerie grace,
In this water world, they haunt the place.

So, in the night, when we all sleep,
Fish wriggle near with webby feet.
For though they seem so calm and bright,
In children's rooms at night, they be a fearsome sight.