Story Pirates

In this bonus episode, Story Pirate Eric interviews Frankenstein to help him decide what Eric should be for Halloween. Featuring one of our favorite spooky stories from the archives, “Zombies Ate My Homework!!!!!,” by an 11 year old from California named Paxton.

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The Story Pirates Podcast is back for Season 6! Coming October 19th, listen to new episodes wherever you get your podcasts.

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We’re off this week getting ready for Season 6, so here’s a taste of a series we’ve been releasing on the Creator Club feed. It’s called Idea Storm, and in it we give you ideas to try out in your own writing! Today’s idea is about how to introduce an exciting problem in your story. When you finish your stories, we’d love to see what you come up with! Grownups can submit stories at storypirates.com. And remember, we respond to every single story we receive!

Show Notes: If you want to listen to any of the stories we played clips of today, go to Season 5, episode 11 for the story “The Dangerous Plumbers,” Season 5, episode 19 for the story “The Town of Snake Therapists,” and Season 5, episode 6 for the story “The Magician’s Accidents.”

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We’re so excited to announce that the new season of the Story Pirates Podcast is coming October 19th! We also have two of our favorite deep cuts from last season: “Now We’re Cooking With Butter” and “Cicada Party.”

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Labor Day is here, and you know what that means: worms all around the world are headed back to school! Luckily, DJ Squirm-a-Lot has created the perfect playlist to help worms, and humans, get ready to learn. 

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Waiting can be hard, especially if you’ve been waiting all year for an amazing trip to a theme park. Today’s brand new story, by Oscar and Miles from Colorado, shows just how painful that kind of waiting can be.

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Trees: we love them and we need them. But could it be that we underestimate them? In this brand new story by Wyatt, a 9 year old from Vermont, one tree does something that no one thought was possible.

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In today’s brand new story by 8 year old Orion in Colorado, a boy reflects on his relationship with his own reflection. 

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In today’s brand new story, by 11 year old Zaley in Oklahoma, a family finds house hunting to be way weirder than they expected.

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Have you ever heard of a ‘tall tale,’ a fantastical story about folk heroes like Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyon? Well, today’s new story, from an 8-year-old in Colorado named Arthur, is a new kind of tall tale, about a folk hero who just happens to be a kid.

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