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
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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THE<br />
UNLUCKY PENNY<br />
By Aleeza Qureshi<br />
Once upon a time, Jose walked down the street when,<br />
all of a sudden, he slipped over a banana! And it<br />
looked like it hurt, but luckily there was a penny under the<br />
banana peel, so Jose kept it for “good luck.” Or so he<br />
thought…<br />
When he got home, he ordered food for dinner and it was<br />
super filthy and gross! It had maggots, worms, and a halfeaten<br />
burger! So he decided to make his own food, pasta.<br />
And it wasn’t too bad, so he ate it.<br />
He finally went to sleep (with the penny still in his pocket).<br />
He fell off the bed three times that night! Oh, poor Jose.<br />
It was pretty hot the next day. Jose thought that maybe he<br />
could go get some ice cream. He went outside to the ice<br />
cream truck to buy vanilla ice cream. And then a bird<br />
pooped on him! Jose thought it was ice cream, and well…it<br />
wasn’t what he thought it was!<br />
Afterwards, he wanted to wash his penny to maybe give it<br />
more luck. So he washed it and washed it as much as he<br />
could. He wanted it to be air dried so it got a very nice<br />
shine, so he went along with his day.<br />
Everything was going pretty normal, and that’s when it hit<br />
him: It was the penny that was giving him bad luck! So he<br />
marched home and tossed it away. Somehow, it bounced<br />
perfectly back at him and into his mouth, and he<br />
accidentally swallowed it!<br />
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