Welcome to Goop Tales, episode 23, Ink Finga versus Medusa in ancient Greece. I'm Maria Kalinchini,

and I'm the author of Goop Tales. And in today's episode, Ink Finga, who is a little goop,

who has very dirty fingers, and he never wants to clean them. Well, he ends up in ancient Greece,

facing down Medusa, who is an ancient Greek character that has snakes coming from her head.

Who will win in this showdown?

You're going to have to listen to the story to find out.

So listen to the story, and then at the end, I'm going to tell you how you can see all the photos that go

with the story and see the time machine that Inkfinga uses to travel to ancient Greece

and see a photo of Inkfinga and Medusa. So I will see you on the other side.

Inkfinga, a cherubic child, was never rough or rude or wild.

Forbidden sweets, he would not touch, though he might want them very much.

But oh, imagination fails when I describe his finger nails.

Chapter 1 Once upon a time, there was a little goop boy called Ink Finga. He was full of wonder and mischief,

and was well loved by all of the other goops. Infinga always wanted to know how things worked,

so he took them apart and put them back together again, just to see the insides.

Anything he could get his hands on, Inkfinger would disassemble and then rebuild.

Watches, computers, and phones were his favorites.

And he'd love to tinker with anything mechanical.

His grandfather had taught him how to take things apart and fix them.

Inkfinga had recently developed a certain obsession

with an old typewriter that lived in his front hall closet.

The typewriter had belonged to his grandfather,

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