Noah started typing this story in October, 2014 with the help of his TSS Rebecca. He came up with the story and dialog all on his own. He uses the on-screen keyboard on his Surface Pro 3, and gets help with capitalization and punctuation. He doesn't like looking for the keys and often clicks on the wrong letter. For each letter entered, Rebecca holds up a yes/no card and asks "do you want a K?" and backspaces over the letter if he points to no, otherwise she gives him a food reward. One sentence may take an hour or longer. He is not given any suggestions for words or the plot.
Starting in March 2015, he uses a text input program his Dad wrote, which has a larger and simpler keyboard, prompts to verify each key, and avoids strange characters.
Other notes:
Noah has refused to give a name for the story, unlike another one he started but didn't get to far with, "On Halloween I Stole Your Finger".
His Dad has added new line breaks and blank lines in places, and fixed a couple of misspellings, but Noah spells most words correctly.
Art, added in October, 2017 is by Angel Zheng with help from Lisa Li.
Plain Text -- the text from the file Noah has typed in with Notepad on his computer, and, as of March 2016, his special text input program.
Here it is formatted and broken into chapters. Noah's Dad made up the chapter titles and made punctuation and spacing changes and a few spelling corrections.
Illustrations by Angel Zheng with help from Lisa Li.
Chapter 6 -- A Tail and a Tale