Once Upon A Time...

...there was a little girl who loved to create stories. Most of them she kept hidden in her young head but a few she unleashed onto paper. She herself, being such a youth and unable to write, penned the tales of the little friends that dominated her world through her mother. Unfortunately, at five years of age she knew nothing of copyrights...this was her first written work....

Mickey's Golden Sword

Once upon a time there was a Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. The city where they lived was name Persia. There was a handsome prince named Mickey Mouse. There was a pretty princess named Minnie Mouse. There was also a dragon. He was a giant green dragon with burning fire coming out of his circled nose.

Micky Mouse put on his army stuff and the princess was glad that he was going to fight the dragon.

Mickey Mouse fought the mean dragon with his golden sword. the dragon faked he was dead. Minnie's yelled, "Watch out, watch out!" Mickey looked behind him and the dragon fell down again. So Mickey didn't stop looking behind him. Then the dragon opened his green mouth to bite Mickey's head off but Mickey stabbed the dragon in the stomach. The dragon screamed and cried, "help!" He yelled so loud that the walls of the King's castle fell down.

Everybody ran out of the doors but Minnie couldn't get out. The lights went out and Minnie's couldn't see. Mickey rescued her because his golden sword led the way. Meanwhile. the dragon climbed over a tall wooden gate but he got 31 splinters on his stomach near where he got hurt earlier. Mickey's father the King of Peria. borrowed Mickey's sword and stabbed the dragon 32 times. The dragon crashed sown into the thorn bush. He was dead!

Hooray! Mickey and Minnie's got married and had a wedding party. They had a baby girl and named her Mary Mouse, another baby named Timmy Mouse, another baby named Tommy. Copyright 1992

Laugh as you might, you must admit that this story has all of the pillars of the most complex chronicle or tragic tale: character development, double climax, even a satisfying ending! I'll concede, it may not bare an exact resemblance of , say, today's famous Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I am pretty sure that when Tolkien was five, he wrote about Mickey Mouse too!