Long ago while visiting Paul and Laura while they lived in Orlando, Florida and going to DisneyWorld I began to tell stores. They were quite fun to tell. I tried to make each of them fairly unique and interesting.
After a while a character named "Grab" emerged. Grab was a small boy who lived in Ottomwa, Iowa who, like Superman, could fly. He hid the fact he could fly from everyone. When he needed to fly he woud run behind the house or across a field and suddenly he would fly off and have great adventures.
Grab had a sense for the dramatic and like to visit interesting places in between doing chores and time for dinner. Because he could fly so fast he would be able to fly to Egypt and be back in time for dinner.
The only people who ever saw Grab fly were the pilots of Air Force One who saw him waving to them while he was holding up one wing of the plane when the engine fell off on the way home from an important meeting. In that case the Secret Service investigated Grab and decided that it was in everyone's best interest if the identity of Grab remained a secret so that no-one would bother Grab or his family and that the President would not look like a nut for saying a little boy helped land his plane. Of course the Pilots of Air Force One were more than willing to do what the Secret Service told them. They didn't want to have people think they were nutty bars either, so the secret of Grab remained hidden.
Grab had brothers and sisters (unspecified names or numbers), parents without names and a number of friends. In one episode Grab even had a girlfriend. But Grab never got older and always kept having fun. The only detail about the life of Grab that has ever been really specified was where Grab lived: on a farm in Ottomwa, Iowa. The house had a barn and fields that grew various things including corn.
Somewhere there is a tape of Grab stories that I recorded when we were going to be separated for a while. Perhaps mom knows where to find that tape.
