“Rusty was always getting into accidents like spilling the water or throwing a ball into someone’s face. A lot of the people and other dogs didn’t like him because he was so small and messy. He was also shy. He really hated when people weren’t loving him but he didn’t know how to ask.”
“4 cups blackberries from a gate in Italy / 1/4 cup granulated sugar from a Mexico sugar cane truck / 2 teaspoons cornstarch from when I first opened my eyes in Israel / 1 tablespoon of water from Malibu beach”
“She dug herself face first into the covers. The covers smelled like lemonade, which she spilled yesterday afternoon. It was the most terrible, horrible, gross first day of school. Melissa is eight. Melissa is frightened because it is third grade, and third grade is a lot of work.”
“This is a series of audio recordings that were uncovered by the FBI while investigating the scene of a crime at Emmie’s house. They subsequently listened to them when they were supposed to be looking for evidence.”
“The cool breeze washing the leaves away / Kids running past piles of snow / And wind pushes against their faces / Wailing to get away from the cold”
“Zeef thought, ‘It stinks! It stinks! It stinks! It smells like rotten eggs, poop, rotten tomatoes, and dead rat bodies.’ He went around the whole table to sniff everyone’s booties. Keef thought it was a fly and smacked her butt, which was Zeef’s head on her butt. And then she farted again. He fainted.”
“King Giant Squid had visited their town and robbed and captured animals. They were Jake’s friends and his parents. It had been one month since he had captured a lot of animals. There were some of the animals left.”
“I woke up at 5 o’clock to begin my training. I was very nervous, but at the same time, too excited for my own good. I am Adam Owl. I am a unique who, like many others, has spent my entire life at Crescent Academy.”
“One sunny day, a cat and her kits went out for a walk with their owners. The mom’s name was Clover, and her three kits were named Fuzzy, Mittens, and Tiger. But as they crossed the bridge over the river, Fuzzy fell into the water.”
“Once upon a time, a dragon was on a field trip with his class. His name was Otto. He was so excited to be on the field trip that he got distracted by the biggest tree he ever saw.”
“Life at home was a mess. Pete was always crying. Mom was always away, and I hadn’t seen Dad in months. The day he left isn’t an open subject, and neither was ‘Him.'”
“Snow falls. Snow, white as the dove’s gentle wing. Snow, like the soft fields of cotton. The cold wonder that proves always to be beautiful as it floats to the ground. It travels down lightly, in slow, poetic movements. Landing, it melts slightly, bright white against the gravel trail it falls upon.”
“Frosty flakes fall from the sky and build up on my windowsill. There’s fog on the window, where the chilly fog has not reached the warmth in my house and the chill outside.”
“I am a twenty-one-year-old guy named Auggie. And I am a spy on a mission. Something you need to know about me is that I am very clumsy.”
“The long summer break lies in front of me. I have so many things I want to do, but I don’t know which one I should do first. Go bowling, go ice skating, go to the movies… But I have to choose one for tomorrow.”
“I was thinking about Julian’s prediction: ‘I am going to turn into a demon, and it’s going to be for one day.’ I’d bet him, and I told him that. But then, when I was going to wake him up, I saw a demon instead of my best friend.”
“Once upon a time, there lived a hobbit named Harold Bipins. He was twelve years old and was 2 feet, 4 inches.”
“Hi, I am Zax, and I am an enormous, brown, furry teddy bear with one eyeball. Why am I a teddy bear with one eyeball? Well, I’m going to tell you now.”
“Blue, the leader, wanted Color World to be safe from the Ghoul Eraser. The Ghoul Eraser is a giant, black eraser that can wipe colors off the face of Color World. There is only one color who knows the weakness of the great Ghoul Eraser… White.”
“Today, I was on patrol outside of the richest bank in Manhattan. That’s when I saw the weirdest man I’d ever seen. He had a suit, jeans, and a top hat on. But that wasn’t the weirdest part.”
“What are dreams? / Are they signals? / Are they foretellings of the future?”
“Can we do a drawing competition?”
“There was a puppet / His name was Suppet / He went on a journey / To get a cat named Ernie”
“1. Don’t die on purpose! 2. Don’t throw knives! 3. Don’t juggle more than zero knives!”
“I don’t know what to think / I don’t know if I should cringe / I don’t know if I should cry / I don’t know if I should be afraid.”
“I was so scared. Where was I going? What was he going to do to me? Will I ever see my family again? All of these things were all jumbled in my head. I did not feel so good. Then the car stopped. He opened the door. That was all I remember.”
“The jungle in the Central Region of Africa has many problems. One problem is that wood is being taken from the trees, and trees are vital to the world. We can stop these wood shortages and other horrible problems. It is important that we save the jungle because of the reasons on this essay and a few more.”
“The magic beetle is a sacred stone. I know it has a really funny name, but it’s sacred to our town. If the magic beetle is stolen, a ghastly magic will cover our town and everything in it. Once Minna Ginna stole it, everyone started doing bad things.”
“I am a totally average person. I was standing at a cleaning station, watching cars getting cleaned. It was raining outside. ‘Hey kid! Whatcha doing out there?'”
“We felt our house being pulled downwards. ‘What is this?’ I called. Richie thought it was a storm. I didn’t think so. We were being pulled downwards. During storms, we were swung side to side. ‘We’re being picked,’ said old, wise Grandpapa.”
“My friends told me about these five amulets that are from China that give people the power to do things. They each have their own special power. One gives you shapeshifting abilities, one gives you invisibility, one gives you strength, and one gives you the power to reach to any length.”
“How has ‘the dog’ become ‘man’s best friend’? Today, we see dogs as a very important part of most people’s lives. They are treated like other humans, almost as equals, and sometimes even better than most humans in the world. People used to think that animals were just for guarding and hunting, and they treated them like regular animals.”
“If you are reading this, then you have to be aware of something. I am not a normal kid. Normal kids don’t wake up in the middle of the night, they don’t start screaming, and they totally don’t hear your thoughts, do they? My point exactly. “
“I, Jasper S. Hirt, student of P.S. 58, think that the sport paintball wars should be a national sport or a sport that you can tune into when you’re watching TV. If it were up to me, paintball would have a chance to be in the Olympics. Imagine tuning into a paintball channel, then liking the sport, so you would want to watch more of it, but you can’t because paintball is not a national sport.”
“There was this kid named John, and he was super strong and he’s going to a dance program that I’m going to. By the way, my name is Greg. I am eleven. I am a nerd. I like to read Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I want to be his friend because he is cool, but I tried, and he didn’t really listen to me, so I want to see if I can do it again.”
“Ryan: Ugh, the school play is tomorrow. What do we have to wear again?”
“One time, it was PSG against Monaco. A person named Jeff had never seen a soccer game in his life before. He didn’t want to miss the soccer game; he didn’t go to any soccer game because he couldn’t afford it.”
“Two girls, one story. One girl has no powers and lives with normal people until she finds out her secret. The other girl lives in luxury because she has powers, but then she goes on a journey to find out her past and why she is so unique.”