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Stellar Stories edition 2

A collection of writing and art from Toronto's youngest authors created during our Young Authors workshops with special thanks to Ontario Trillium Foundation for their support

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Update: I have been thinking for hours now, and right when<br />

I ran out of ideas a few mules came along, and there was<br />

someone or something saying “Voowelveh chicos!” as if<br />

they were chasing the mules. I went outside and saw a man<br />

with a handlebar mustache and a perfecto cigar, wearing<br />

some sort of colourful cloth over his shoulders and a wide<br />

brimmed straw hat with red and green tassels. I walked up<br />

to him and said I needed a mule or two. He didn't<br />

understand so I said it again slower and with hand motions<br />

and he seemed to understand better.<br />

He asked for what I understood as some form of payment,<br />

so I gave him the lump of gold I found in the cave and a few<br />

shots of the rum I had. He let me use the mules for moving<br />

my things. While we were going to the cave I asked him<br />

where we were. He said we were in some place called<br />

“mehico”, which sounded an awful lot like Mexico. I found<br />

one of my crewmates at the cave and he told me that when<br />

Blackbeard looted the ship he dressed him up as one of his<br />

men and took him with him to Mexico. He took me to his<br />

house and taught me some Mexican words and phrases<br />

that I might need, but just then the pirate and his new<br />

Mexican friends shot my crewmate dead and I got a chunk<br />

of lead in my ribcage. I played dead until the pirates left.<br />

I went to the doctor and asked him to help with the lead<br />

gunshot, and reported the pirates to the locals. The<br />

authorities said they couldn't do much about it since there<br />

wasn't much evidence. I showed him the body, and my<br />

injury as proof. He asked why it wasn't possible that I just<br />

shot him and myself. I saw that there was a parrot in the<br />

room that would have seen it all unfold. We asked the<br />

parrot and showed him sketches of the pirate and his<br />

accomplices. Then we showed him the body and asked him<br />

about what he saw. We laid out some sketches, a gun, and<br />

the body, and told him to show us what happened. He<br />

showed the pictures pointing the gun at the body, in order.<br />

The police realized what this meant and asked for<br />

descriptions of what the men were wearing and any<br />

defining features. I gave him the descriptions and he called<br />

for a police chase. Update: the men and the pirate have<br />

been found and are being locked up in prison. Where I<br />

come from, the normal sentence for murder and attempted<br />

murder is execution, but the judge said solitary confiment<br />

for 5 years, and then death.<br />

I convinced the judge that where I came from, the sentence<br />

for murder and attempted murder are execution. He said<br />

that the legal system of my country must be a lot better,<br />

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