Gettin' Ziggy With It

While a company was on a journey, their leader, Chief H, was standing upon a rock giving a powerful speech. When all of the sudden the rock began to shake and rumble and then Whoosh! The rock lifted off and took Chief H up into the sky. The company waited and waited for the rock to return but it never did. Coyote, a sneaky character, took Chief H's wife and moved away along with the rest of the company. After a long and irritating time upon the rock Chief H figured out a way to get down. He made it to the ground and began to back track from all the places they had camped with before. When a came to the place where the fire had been he asked the fire poker "How long ago did they leave?" The fire poker answered and said, "a long, long time ago" Chief H was frustrated but was not going to give up on finding his wife and the sneaky coyote. When he moved on again he came to the pestle, who seemed a bit spacey but was able to answer Chief H's question. Chief...

This story is short and doesnt have a lot of detail but there is a lot of room for imagination and to add detail in. The main character is the man, I could give the man a name and make him more personal Explain why the man was on the rock and how he got there Make the journey back to his wife more interesting I like the way the man kills the coyote but there is not good imagery involved, I could make this more interesting and not so abrupt. Why was the rock which the man was on raised the sky? I could have the rock crumble and somehow the man survived and nursed himself back to life to go on this journey to find his wife that was stolen by the coyote.  Coyote Steals a Mans Wife, Edited by Pliny Earle Goddard; Link to reading Coyote

The main characters of the story are the Thunder Bird and the Mistletoe I could change the names of the two main characters, maybe make the bird a squirrel and change what kind of plant is in the story. I could give a background about kissing under a mistletoe during christmas because birds would meet there and kiss under the mistletoe The bird could trick the mistletoe so that he could constantly have berries to feed on and that is why the thunder bird put the mistletoe in the tree.  If a seed ever made it to the ground the plant would become bad luck and curse whoever ate the berries of the seeds off the grounded mistletoe.  The plant that grows on trees retold by Florence Stratton; link to the reading Image of the Thunder Bird and Mistletoe