Synchronicity: The Story of Wishes on a Clock

Let me tell you a secret,

In case you didn’t know:

Every time the clock

Has numbers that show

All the same at once,

Like three thirty-three,

You get to make a wish,

And your wish is free.

The same is true with

Two twenty-two,

And four forty-four.

So, wish out of the blue.

By five fifty-five

Or ten minutes past ten

You have more chances

To make a wish again.

By eleven-eleven or

Twelve minutes past twelve,

You can pull out the wishes

That you put on the shelve.

Keep your eye on the clock

And wish throughout the day!

By the time you go to sleep,

You wished the bad away,

And all things are good,

As good as can be.

Wishes are child’s play,

And wishes are key.

Copyright 2019 Jennifer Waters

PEANUT BUTTER MARSHMALLOW synopsis

LOGLINE

A lonely little girl makes a new best friend from her favorite foods—marshmallows and peanut butter.

PITCH

Ten-year-old Bethany wants to make new friends. She sneaks into her father’s marshmallow factory, leaves the machine on all night, and turns out a huge marshmallow. Once Bethany makes a peanut butter face on it, her dad can’t destroy it. The marshmallow wants to be Bethany’s pal, and he’s accepted into her home, becomes her new best friend, and even wins her more friends at school.

SYNOPSIS

Bethany Buttercup, age 10, wants to make new friends and gets the bright idea to leave the marshmallow tube on overnight in her father’s factory, creating a puffy white friend as big as a snowman. Bethany creeps through the window into her father’s factory and turns on the machine, which creates a marshmallow larger than human size.

In the morning her dad finds out about it and says she was caught on video, so don’t deny it. Bethany suggests that she come with her father to the factory. Upon arrival Bethany jumps out of the car with her jar of peanut butter and runs onto the factory floor. She paints a personality face on her new marshmallow-cotton ball friend. She is in awe, but her father overreacts again in shock. Her father threatens to hose it down with water, but the Marshmallow suggests that he become Bethany’s pal. Her dad reluctantly agrees but says he will roast the marshmallow at a campfire if he causes his business any problems.

The Buttercups make Peanut Butter Marshmallow welcome in their home. Peanut Butter Marshmallow and Bethany do everything children do with their best friends. If anyone bullies Bethany, the Marshmallow rolls them right out of the way. When he comes with her to Best Friend Day at school, Bethany is the most popular girl in her grade. Despite all, Mr. Buttercup comes to love Peanut Butter Marshmallow and even creates a line of special marshmallows with peanut butter filling. Of course, Bethany takes the credit, for without her insistence on creating a new best friend, no one would have ever eaten peanut butter marshmallows.

Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters