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The Land of Scarborough Adventures

Talking lizards and shipwrecked sailors. Witches, ninjas, and everyday kids. In these pages, you'll journey with these characters to lands imaginary and read, including the home city of these 24 young authors: East Scarborough. An anthology of stories, poems, comics, and art, The Land of Scarborough Adventures is the culmination of a program called 360° Stories, which brought together students from the Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park in a month-long series of online creative workshops.

Talking lizards and shipwrecked sailors. Witches, ninjas, and everyday kids. In these pages, you'll journey with these characters to lands imaginary and read, including the home city of these 24 young authors: East Scarborough.

An anthology of stories, poems, comics, and art, The Land of Scarborough Adventures is the culmination of a program called 360° Stories, which brought together students from the Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park in a month-long series of online creative workshops.

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Origin Story: <strong>The</strong> Wreck<br />

Once upon a time there was an egg that was protected by a creature that humans<br />

could never see. This creature was called Arsh and he lived a very lonely<br />

life. If a human looked into the eyes <strong>of</strong> Arsh, they would immediately turn into<br />

stone. Arsh never did any harm to humans. All he wanted was to have a child—a<br />

son, to be specific—so he wouldn’t be lonely anymore.<br />

A titan called Buzagoobaba drained away Arsh’s powers and then laid eight<br />

eggs. <strong>The</strong> Buzagoobaba forgot to destroy the egg that Arsh had been protecting<br />

and it mixed in with her eggs without her noticing. And from that egg, a<br />

thing hatched that no man had ever seen…<br />

From that day on, Arsh’s son learned an ability: to use atomic breath to destroy<br />

whatever he wanted. But when he looked down on the people, he noticed<br />

something in them. <strong>The</strong>y couldn’t harm any titan, and all they wanted to do was<br />

live a happy life. <strong>The</strong> creature—who would come to be known as <strong>The</strong> Wreck—<br />

grew sad. <strong>The</strong> creature was sad because <strong>of</strong> the people that were dying because<br />

<strong>of</strong> the violent titans.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Wreck looked at the humans from his secret hiding place, and suddenly, he<br />

started to shrink. He became human! He didn’t know how he became a human,<br />

but it was actually because he’d been born next to the eight eggs <strong>of</strong> Buzagoobaba<br />

and had inherited the power to transform into a human!<br />

Although JTT (<strong>The</strong> Wreck’s human name) had a lot <strong>of</strong> powers, the titans he was<br />

going up against could still easily one-punch him to the ground, so he hid in his<br />

human form in a land called <strong>Scarborough</strong>.<br />

On the day <strong>of</strong> our story, JTT went to a Starbucks on Lawrence Avenue East.<br />

When he got there, he realized that this was where his father—the creature<br />

from the beginning <strong>of</strong> the story—had died. He asked the barista for the blood<br />

<strong>of</strong> his father.<br />

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