Category Archives: Winter 2017

“There once lived a man. He picked his nose and saw a booger. It was so magical. It turned into a boy! ‘I’ll call you Booger, Jr.'”

“He decided that he should try to flip a bottle that he had in his bag. He took it out and prayed to God. ‘Please, let me make this bottle flip.’ He got ready to flip. Three… two… one… flip! He saw the bottle in the air. THUD. The bottle laid flat on the table.”

“Christian, a 13-year-old boy, was bored at home because his phone was dead and his PS4 wasn’t working correctly. He watched all the episodes of South Park at least five times. All he had was a water bottle filled up to the fourth line. He held the water bottle by the bottom and flipped it into the air. It landed on the cap.”

“‘Hey girl,’ says my boyfriend. ‘What’s up,’ I say. He says, ‘I’m breaking up with you.’ I love the way he talks, I think to myself. But, then I say, ‘Wait, what?!'”

“This story starts with a little boy named Adam. Adam was a boy who lived in Ireland, in 1845, when the potato famine happened. He lived in a poor house because he was not the richest kid in Ireland.”

“Once upon a Thanksgiving, there was a turkey’s dead friend, who was being eaten on Thanksgiving. The turkey (that was alive) was named Turkusin. He made it his goal to get revenge on the family that ate his friend.”

“‘Where am I?’ I said. I wasn’t in the freezing chamber. I was somewhere else. The last thing I remembered was that I was a servant, and the king was mean to me. I got beheaded for trying to escape and wanting to be a king.”

“First of all, you think that gummy bunnies are soft and harmless, but what you don’t know is that they have a secret weapon. It’s gummy, and it’s yummy, and you can’t resist it.”

“As usual, my dad had to pry my brother out of bed, while I was getting ready. I changed, brushed my teeth, ate my breakfast, put on my shoes and backpack, and walked out the door with my brother and my mom. When I went out the door, I immediately noticed something strange. It was really windy and very quiet. There weren’t that many people on the street.”

“There was a brick named Bobzilla. He was in a mud pile on a grassy field far away from his wall, where his family was. His dream was to fit in with his family. His family made fun of him. They were normal, red bricks, but he was pink.”

“Landon is a boy who wants to go to Colombia by himself. Colombia is like New York, but with houses instead of apartments and trolleys and a lot of nice trees. It smells good because there’s a lot of Colombian food and restaurants. It sounds loud because there are a lot of people trying to get into restaurants.”

“I looked up at the face of a young boy, but he was distorted by some unknown substance. It was evening, so was it just darkness messing up my vision? No, there was some gurgling sound as well. Suddenly, it had hit me. That sound was water!”

“Once upon a time, in Horselandia, there was a very poor horse. This horse’s name was Lucy, and she loved to collect stamps from lands far away from Horselandia. Lucy’s parents were famous explorers back in the day. Now, these days, no one cared about the treasures the explorers found. So the family was poor because the parents had searched a lot of lands for jobs, and on the way, the parents collected stamps, just for Lucy.”

“‘Did you come to visit me, or did you come to chat?’ asked Jackie. ‘Actually, I came here for you to help me plan for my birthday party, which is tomorrow, and by plan… I mean a sneaky idea,’ said Suzy.

“Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring! ‘Hello, this is Super Mouse talking,’ said Super Mouse into an old-fashioned phone. He was a white mouse that never took off his superman costume. He was sitting in his brown living room and calling himself on the phone because he never had anything to do.”

“Everybody ran away because they’re still afraid of the birds. After the war, land animals don’t like them. I don’t mind birds that much, and little Sarah here was born after the war. She doesn’t know anything about it.”

“Once there was an octopus who only had five tentacles. His name was Fin. He wanted three more tentacles, but his parents said he just had to live with having only five.”

“It was Finley’s first day of preschool. Finley was very scared because she had never actually been to school before. She was three years old. She was feeling very scared because she was worried that everybody wouldn’t like her and they wouldn’t be her friends.”

“It was so big. Then it exploded. All over everyone. Everyone except me. So, technically, I was an outcast, again. Oh, hello, I’m Jake. You could kinda say I have special powers, but nobody notices when I use them, so I guess that was an upside to my plan.”

“Opening my eyes, I feel fire swarming my small form. Normal. Then, a jet of magic blasts out of my hand. ‘What?’ I say simply. This is my forbidden power coming out. I forgot about this.”

“‘Why do I have to go to a Jewish school? I don’t even know any Hebrew!!!’ Emma complained to her mom.”

“My name is Lucy. I am twelve years old, and I live in Liverpool, England. I love to write. I wrote seventeen chapter books and five picture books. I like to write fantasy stories. In school, I have no friends. No one likes me, I guess. Whenever they see me, they walk past me like I’m a ghost.”

“It was only the second week that Emy’s Jazz Club was open when I broke the rule. I played the piano. I had longed to use it since opening day of the restaurant, but it was prohibited by all the people working there. The only person allowed to play it was my father.”

“Once upon a time, there lived a puppet named Trump. The girl that owned Trump loved him, but she grew old, and she wanted to be queen. She took the puppet to the graveyard and buried him there. One day, on a full moon, he came out of the grave and said, ‘I will get my revenge on Georgegina.'”

“Hi, I’m End. I obviously have the worst spot in a book… the last page. I mean, who likes a thumb pressing on their face all the time? It’s horrible!”