Fiction Writing Summer Camp 2023 (8 -10 year olds)

FICTION
WRITING
CAMP
2023

The Authors and Artists:
Anni............................................................................... 4
Daniel............................................................................. 6
Winni............................................................................. 8
Matthew......................................................................... 10
Nora............................................................................... 12
Nancy............................................................................. 14
Kai.................................................................................. 16
Volodymyr..................................................................... 18
Joe.................................................................................. 20
Yurii............................................................................... 22
Elise................................................................................ 24
Neo................................................................................. 27
Sadhbh.......................................................................... 29
Theo............................................................................... 31
Anshelika...................................................................... 33
Kiara.............................................................................. 35
Samuel........................................................................... 37
Julia................................................................................. 40
Alina.............................................................................. 43
Saorlaith........................................................................ 45
Isabelle.......................................................................... 47
Daisy.............................................................................. 49
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Anni
4

The World of Cats
Once upon a time there was a land that no human knew about and that land
was made of… Cats! One day in the world of Cats it was a wonderful day until… a
beam of sunshine flew down from the sky, it was a human!!! All the cats were super
scared, they did not know what a human was, all the Cats bursted into three
houses except one cat and that cat knew what a human was.
He brought here into their house, the cat who knew what humans were asked
how the human got her. The human did not know how she got there. So the human
explained that she didn’t come here you see I was walking on the footpath
when I saw a shop and I remembered it was my friends birthday. I went in to get
a present but when I went to pay I saw a snow globe so instead I bought that but
on the way home I shook it and then I ended up here.
The cat said that that’s no normal snow globe that’s put snow globe. The human
did not understand what the cat was saying so the cat said it properly… That our
snow helps us get here, the person must of thought you were the new boss. The
human understood what the cat was saying now but if no cat knew what a human
was how is the boss a human?
The cat told the human he never told them he was a human. The human asked
but how do you know what a human is and how do you know he is a human??
Because once he was very sick and he told me to be the boss for the day and told
me he was a human and he told me what a human was. The human understood
what the cat meant now but said can you help me get a snow globe but you
have to leave after. I will get you aa snow globe deal the human said so the cat
gave the human a snow globe. But before she left they gave each other a hug and
then the human left.
The end.
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Daniel
6

The Aliendog
Once upon a time there was a boy named Kai. He had an unusual dog, it had 10
legs. How he got the dog: Kai was walking home from school and he saw the 10
legged dog, so he decided to take the dog home. Kai realised the dog was turning
green. This could only mean one thing: Aliens. Kai ran as fast as he could. Soon he
got away and the aliens came and took the dog and Kai lived a normal life.
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Winni
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Double day
Their once was a girl called Lilac. Lilacs best friend is called Julia. Julia has a puppy
named Laika. Laura is a puppy Husky and is very playful around other dogs. The
bully in the story is called Blit. Blit has a dog called Husk. Husk is a chihuahua that
doesn’t like her owner because Blit gave her a bad name and barely feeds Husk.
Lilac is loving and caring. Lilac is having trouble in school because Blit is bullying
her. Lilac will help anybody on the ground. Lilac has a puppy named Tulip who is
happy and Tulip is a lurcher cross greyhound and she is black.
It all starts in NYU High School. Lilac is starting her first day of High School. Lilac is
hoping her bully isn’t at her High School because Blit would bully her. Sadly, Blit is
at NYU High School. Blit looked so cool, she looked like she got a whole new look.
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Matthew
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This is the story of the scribble people. The scribble people are scribbles. Incomplete
scribbles at that, but scribbles all the same. They all look for the
pencil, the item that can complete them all when found. One day a scribble
named. He didn’t have a name. Their world is incomplete too, it looks 3D with
2D elements. One day the scribble named was looking for the pencil and found
it, but he kept it to himself…
The second power of the pencil was that it had an eraser on its back and
whatever it erased would be erased from existence found civilization and he
tried to be a hero by erasing a tiger to save the scribbles in the village, but he
tried too hard to be a hero, and when he was rejected by the other scribbles,
he erased the entire village and became a villain. The king scribble (Kibble)
saw this and became worried about his throne and his heir. “We need to protect
the kingdom,” he said, so he sent the finest knights in the kingdom to
fight the scribble villain. None of them succeeded.
Then one singular scribble came up, he was the last knight in the kingdom. He
asked, “Should I fight the threat?” King scribble said, “You are only one knight,
you will not succeed, but you can try anyway.” Then the knight walked out of
the kingdom and stood outside the gates for several days. Then, on the horizon,
the threat appeared:, and everybody got inside their houses to hide. “One measly
knight,” said. They fought and fought for three days. Eventually both were
tired, then the last knight in the kingdom took the pencil and erased. Then he
drew back all the people who were erased, including all the knights and the
village. Then he looked to the spot where he erased then he drew him back as a
good scribble, but left him as a scribble and completed everybody in the city, all
the knights and villagers.
The moral of the story is that it’s your story, you can draw it any way
you want.
THE END
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Norah
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The Zombie Hairdryer
The hairdryer stood in the window of the charity shop. Every few weeks, somebody
bought it. The next day it would be returned in a box with some of the other
possessions of the now dead owner.Again and again, it was sold, but it always
came back the next day. And the owner always disappeared.
The shopkeeper was the only one in the shop when the bell tinkled, indicating
that a customer had entered. She hobbled to the door to see a young couple
holding hands.
They were probably only 25, and they told her they had recently got married and
moved in together. They were just looking around, they said.Ten minutes later the
shopkeeper had managed to sell a stool, a clock, and the hairdryer.
It was raining that night, and the moon was hidden behind the clouds. Anyone
out for a walk would be hidden in the darkness. The shopkeeper waited outside
the couples house, watching her watch. Tick, tick, tick. The hands hit midnight
and the old lady looked up and smiled. A scream echoed through the neighborhood,
and another one followed. Then silence.
The old lady pushed them down into 2 chairs. She had left the hairdryer. The
family would return it tomorrow, crying about how young they were. She would
pretend to be sympathetic. The couples glassy eyes stared straight ahead as the
old woman buckled them in. She checked the straps and, satisfied with her work,
pulled a lever. The chairs slid forward and went through a door and out of sight.
The woman licked her lips. She would have a feast tonight…..
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Nancy
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Strawberry
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Kai
Alex
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Once upon a time there was a boy called Alex and he had a problem. He kept hearing voices
in the middle of school. He told his teacher about the voices, and his teacher told him to
tell his parents. So when he got home he told his parents and they said, “Tomorrow tell your
principal if you hear them again.”
The very next day he told his principal, and the principal told him, “Don’t think about it, and
maybe visit a therapist, now go back to class.” When Alex was back at class he heard them
again, so he told his teacher and she did not appreciate it this time. She screamed, “Sit down,
boy!” He sat down and got back to work.
When Alex got home that day he told his parents again and they said,”Did you tell your principal?”
He replied, “Yes I did, and then I went back into the classroom and I heard the voices
in my head, and my teacher yelled at me.” His parents told him to go upstairs and sit down
for a while. When he went upstairs he heard the voices again. The voices were ghostly and
they mainly said, “Hello Alex,” and, “We’re real, Alex.” Alex felt scared, and he started shivering
in fear.
Tomorrow was a weekend. He was looking forward to a relaxing day of no voices, no school
and no nothing. He went to bed early that night and slept only until midnight, when he was
woken up by the voices. He ran up to his parents’ bedroom and told them about the voices,
today and yesterday. His parents told him, “Go back to sleep, we’ll talk about it in the morning.”
So he went back to sleep, and when he woke up in the morning, he heard the voices
again, so he ran downstairs and told his parents about the voices. They told him, “It’s probably
just in your head.”
Monday morning, he went to school and told his teacher that he had heard the voices again
at home and at school. His teacher told him to go to the principal’s office for the second
time. But when he got to the principal’s office, he wasn’t there. Instead, there was a ghost!
So he ran back to the classroom and told his teacher about his principal being a ghost. His
teacher didn’t believe him, and told him to stop telling lies. So he replied, “But I swear I saw
a ghost!” His teacher screamed at him, “Sit down, or I’ll need to call your parents!” So he sat
down and got back to work.
When he got home that day he told his parents about what happened that day. They believed
him, and went to speak to the principal the next day. But the principal wasn’t there
in ghost form, he was there in normal form. His parents told the principal about what happened
yesterday. He denied that he was a ghost, saying to Alex, “You probably saw something
else.” Alex replied, “No, I saw you, as a ghost! I know you’re the one making the voices
to try and scare me!” The parents called the police and took the principal away.
THE END
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Volodymyr
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His second name is You Mam. His age is 1000000. He won’t eat. He is scared. He
dances. He eats poop. He loves chicken. He is bad. He kills nothing.
Character description: Named DaDe DaDe. He is holding a PlayStation controller.
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Joe
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Fire skeleton and accessories.
The V-gull.
Waffle Earth!
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Yurii
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Captained by Steve, the strongest man in the world who can lift a building with
his pinky finger, the pirate ship sails home after a big adventure. He has brown
armour and is never seen without his trusty pet dog!
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Elise
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Intruder
Lavender sat in her small rose gold throne reading her novel. Her father was sitting
in his iron throne watching the villagers pay their taxes. The only reason Lav
was allowed to read is because it was a study book. History, the most gruesome
book in the library. When Lavender was eleven her father had deemed her old
enough to read it.
Though she’d been given it, she never readily until now. Mostly because it stank
of crusty feet, very musty crusty skin.
Lav closed her bookend and pretended to be interested in her father greeting a
middle aged man in wealthy clothing. He had a fake smile plastered to his face
and a head of straight red hair and steel grey eyes. It took a heartbeat for Lavender
to registered he was. Blitz O’connor, her cousin…
Blitz noticed her quickly, giving her a sky smirk…He was up to something. And Lav
was gonna find out what…
-◇-
Later that evening Princess Lavender was dining in her room when there was a
twin pair of knocks sounded on her chamber doors.
‘C’mon in lads’ Lavender let a small bit of her village accent she had acquired
while sneaking out of the castle,drop a small bit.
‘Hello Lav” smiled Oliver, the wiser of the two. He had red-ginger hair and
green-grey eyes
“Whatcha doing?” Asked Charlie,the braver twin,as he was so good with a sword.
Father had never sent him to school, but rather sent them to a brute war camp.
Only Charlie would be able to come back with his kindness still attached.
Lavender stood and her emerald gown fell to the ground around her. She smiles
‘ Just eating while I study. I’d there something you need, boys?” Lavender gave
them her warmest smile. The boys were really the only ones in the castle that Lav
didn’t resent other than Josh the guard, that dashing savior with his dark hair and
blue eyes.
“Did you hear about the intruder? There are whispers that he’s an alien” Charlie
blurted.
“An intruder?” Lavender murmured.
“Lock your doors tonight boys… just incase…”
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Neo
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The Sunset
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Sadhbh
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A day in the life of the fat lady
I was woken up at 4’oclock by Harry Potter AGAIN! The students are so rude!
I only stay cause of Violet. You know my friend on the second floor, huh? Oh, I
must have had a daydream anyway, password? Correct! I wonder who that was?
WAIT! You don’t know me!? I thought I was famous, no? Well, I am…
THE FAT LADY!
Anyway, back to the story. Oh. Here comes Neville Longbottom that poor kif.
He has a terrible memory. Apparently, his parents were murdered by Bellatrix
Lestrange. When his grandma was in school, I was still on the second floor! Those
were the good old days…
Neville! NO! I cannot let you in! I’m going to bed now, bye!
THE END
Book 2 coming soon.
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Theo
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Homer is driving to Lardlad Donuts and asks for a donut but there is only one left.
“Give it to me!”, said Homer. The man at the desk says: “Okay sir!”. Then Homer
ate the donut and he could feel sprinkles going through his veins. He felt weird
and then he became Donut Dude! His motto was “Mmmmmm sprinkles”
Meanwhile, Mr Burns was eating a radioactive chilli and he could feel the heat
pulsing through his veins. He became Mr Chilli! Mr Chilli’s motto was: “Brocolli,
we must kill all other foods!” (Brocolli is Smithers).
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Anshelika
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Stop in the main swarms
The girls went to the beach for vacation. They got strawberry ice cream and they
have a party with the boys. The boys got into a fight over chips. The dog who
belongs to to the smaller boy came to fight for him.
“I need you,
I need you,
I need you more,” sang the girls…
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Kiara
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Once there was a boy called John Sweeney. He was 16-years-old. He had light
brown hair and freckles. He wore a blue t-shirt with a dark blue jumper and
brown jeans. Today he was working at his dad’s pub. “Here’s your beer,” he said
over and over again. At the end of the day John ran home. He thought he needed
exercise. On the way home, he tripped over something that looked like a camera.
He decided to put it in a paper bag and wait for the owner to come. A month
passed quickly and no one came to claim it so John decided to keep it. The first
thing he took a picture of was a cherry tree. But it wasn’t an ordinary cherry tree,
oh no, it was a cherry tree that was given to his mom and dad on their wedding.
That hooked John into photography. He read books and books of it and took pictures
of lizards, plants and bugs. A week later, to his surprise, the cherry tree was
dead and half of the wildlife in a nearby park was dead. It was very puzzling because
all the plants that died were photographed by him. He decided not to use
the camera again.
1 year later
Life in Edinburgh was okay. Some of the plants were replanted but the park still
looked empty. John had completely forgotten about the camera. His eight-yearold
brother found it and brought it to his class. When John got home and saw the
camera he told his brother not to use it again. George started crying. “WAAA!”
Said George, who was John’s Little brother. “Ah please don’t cry George,” said his
mother trying to soothe him. “John!” Said mum. “You have to let George keep
this camera! You haven’t used it for a year!!!” “But mum.” Started John. “NO NO
NO I WON’T HEAR A WORD OF IT!” “Oh no.” Thought John. This was bad, very
bad. John had found out that every thing you take a picture of with the camera
died or got destroyed.
Today they were going to Edinburgh Castle. When they got to the top George
took a big photograph of Edinburgh before John could stop him. Buildings started
crumbling and people started dropping on the floor.
THE END
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Samuel
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The tale of the fat,salsa shooting cow (tony)
CHAPTER 1
This book is weird…..
One day,fat Tony the cow went to taco Bell,he ordered a diarrhea inducing taco
with extra salsa “MMMMMM This is SO good,but I gotta get more salsa…” so
he asked the cashier for more and the cashier said “sorry we only got a tiny bit
of salsa but it’s against the terms an-”Fat tony interrupted with “I DON’T CARE
IF ITS AGAINST THE GENEVA CONVENTION!!!!”the cashier murmured “if you say
so………”
CHAPTER 2
toilet.now
Fat tony was driving home when his bum felt weird “ughhhhhh-i gotta go to the
toilet…”so when he got home he ran to the toilet.RIPPPPPPPPL”oh my god why
am I shaking…”
Chapter 3
Blast off!!!!
He looked at his bum “Wait is that salsa?”Fat tony had eaten nuclear salsa that is
against the terms of service and the Geneva convention!!!!! His bum was like a
nuclear rocket!he started going up through the roof,into the sky,he could see everything
then he got higher,higher,higher and now he could not see his house,or
his town!He could see the WHOLE world! “OH SHOOT DADDY DADDY!!!!!”He
had now left the earth’s atmosphere! Meanwhile,a space mission was happening
“this is alpha 432 to rocket,we have picked up a UFO on our sonar,can you
see anything”the rocket captain replied “uhmmmmmmmm………..no-wait a dam
minute is the a cow,WITH SALSA COMING OUT OF ITS BUTT….No I must be seeing
things…” but he wasn’t.
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Chapter 4
ouch.
Fat tony landed on the moon,making him the 1st cow on the moon.his first
thought was not how will i get back,no that would be silly,his first though was actually
his will I get taco Bell!remember that’s space program?Well that was to the
moon.Fat tony said “is that a rocket,if so do they have TACO BELL?”They didn’t
but they had a guy on board.the rocket was landing and it was coming in hot,fat
Tony moved so he didn’t get squished “Hey is that the cow from earlier,YAY I don’t
have to go to specsavers after all!”Fat tony said “Hi I got two questions 1 do you
have taco Bell 2 can you take me home?”the guy paused and frowned “answer to
number 1,No answer to number 2 Yeah,I guess.” Fat tony was disappointed but
grateful so,he got in touch they went home and fat tony got taco Bell.the end.
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Julia
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Choo Choo The Chicken
Choo Choo was a chicken. He was called “Choo Choo” because his father ran a
company called Bane’s Trains. Their motto was - not the point of the story!
Continuing…. Choo’s Choo’s father ,Bane, wanted Choo Choo to inherit the company
when he passed.
But Choo Choo didn’t want to. In fact, he had a much stranger dream….
As we all know, Choo Choo was a chicken. ◇ And chickens can’t fly. But Choo Choo
could! At least, he thought he could.
For his whole life, Choo Choo had wanted to fly. He had watched documentaries
about penguins ◇,another bird species that people said couldn’t fly. But Choo Choo
had seen them leap off icebergs into the ocean. They could surely fly! And if they could,
well, why couldn’t he?
He believed that the chickens could fly if they just tried.
I mean, Choo Choo had flown before! He could only make it a few metres into the air
before falling back down again, but it was a work in progress!
(Actually all chickens could do that. They just never wanted to.)
Anyway, after a long day of chickens telling him he couldn’t do it, Choo Choo felt
determined to prove them wrong.
And so, the next morning, Choo Choo jumped of a cliff to prove he was
right!!! It was a really big cliff.
In fact, Choo Choo was falling for so long, he had enough time to eat a sandwich that he
had
cleverly hidden within his feathers.
Just as he was polishing off the last crumb he hit the ground.
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Only to shoot straight back up into the air!
“I can fly!” He shrieked joyfully,”I can fly!”
And so the chicken Choo Choo went on the rest of his life
believing that he could fly But really, it’s amazing what a
trampoline can do. ◇
THE END
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Alina
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Jelly Bear and Santa
I was just an innocent jelly bear but one boy always wanted to eat me. I had to run
away to my home. Once I was home I went to sleep. The next day it was Christmas and
when I stood up there was a big Christmas tree in front of me. Santa had left a lot of
presents under the tree.
One of the presents was a car but there was one problem: the car didn’t seem to work.
The doors of the car wouldn’t open. Suddenly then I turned after feeling a hand on my
shoulder and it was Santa. He was holding out a big set of keys and then said. “ Take
these keys Jelly bear for the magic car. This car is magic because it can fly. Now when
people try to eat you you’ll be able to escape.”
From that day forward I was the happy flying jelly bear that no one could ever eat.
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Saorlaith
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CHAPTER ONE
One day cat girl was bored and didn’t know what to do.
“I am bored” said cat girl.
“Well maybe you could go outside? Said mom. Yeah
said cat girl .
So cat girl went outside.
But when cat girl went outside she didn’t know what to do.
So cat girl went back inside.
“What should I do”? Said cat girl .
“Maybe you could go back outside” ? Said mom.
“I’m sure you would be able to do something outside “ ? Said
mom. “But I tried and there is nothing to do outside “ said cat girl.
“Try again” said mom. “Okay said
cat girl.
So cat girl went back outside
CHAPTER TWO
“a tree” said cat girl.
Maybe there is some treasure in it. I
should start digging
No not evil cat
I am going to take the treasure from you said evil cat No
I will get it
Ha ha ha I got the treasure run from me said evil cat I
will said cat girl I am not afraid of you
I will get the treasure from you
Ha ha ha now I have the treasure You
will never get it now.
CHAPTER THREE
MOM you will not belive what just happened I took the treasure from
evil Cat
I am so proud of you said mom The end
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Isabelle
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Once upon a time there was a girl, her name was Ella. She had a friend called
Hanna. One day on a school trip they went to the art gallery. They looked at lots
and lots of paintings. There was one that sto od out to Ella and Hanna, it was
the one with the perl earring. There was something we ird about it, the pearl
earring was blue, purple, pink and yellow but in a pearl shape. So at free time
(where they were able to explore by themselves), they went back to that painting.
It was still pink, purple, blue and yellow. They touched it, and all of a sudden
they were teleported to ancient Egypt. They could tell by the clothes and the
pyramids looked very new. They looked behind them and the portal was closed.
Thankfully Ella loved Egypt so she knew a lot about it. They asked someone to
help them, but he said he could not help them, but could only give them a diamond
if they worked. So they knew it was their only hope, so they said yes.
They had to write letters for him, and thankfully Ella loved Egypt and she knew
hieroglyphics, which is what Egyptians wrote with. They look like this: . So they wrote the letters and earned the diamond, by accident
they dropped it and it broke, and out of it came a portal. They jumped in…
They came out of the portal and they were back at the art gallery, weirdly no
time had passed but they just travelled back in time so they thought not much
of it.
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Daisy
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Turning Dog
The day I found out I had superpowers it was a normal day. Amy woke up and got
out of bed. The sun was shining in to through her window. Amy was feeling weird,
she walked up to the mirror, and she saw something unbelievable! She was a
dog! Amy totally freaked when her mom came in. She hid underneath the bed.
Luckily, her mom didn’t notice her, but she did notice that Amy wasn’t in her bed.
“Amy,” called mom.
Amy whispered, “I’m here” and luckily it came out in human so Amy called a
bit louder and said, “I will be down in a minute”. The minute Amy said that she
turned back to a human then she ran down the stairs. Her mom had been making
folded up eggs. Amy grabbed the egg and ran out the door then ran back in and
said, “thank you!”
“Oh, Amy you forgot your school bag!” Said mom.
When she got to the bus stop the bus was just pulling out of the bus stop. Amy
ran after the bus and called out; “Please stop!”
Finally, the bus driver stopped. Amy got on the bus and when she got to the back
and sat down, she took out her phone. She said “meow” and felt a tingle. She
was a cat. She then said “human” and she was a human. Then she went on to her
phone and went into camera. She then said dog and felt a different tingle and she
looked at her phone but instead of a black dog she was a green dog. She totally
freaked and then she turned greener. A few minutes later she turned back to herself.
When she got to school. She walked back down the aisle and thanked the bus
driver on the way out. When she got into the classroom she ran over to her best
friend Alice “Hi Alice” called Amy from the door. Amy walked over to Alice. Alice
pulled Amy over to the corner behind the bookshelves and said, “Look Amy this
might be crazy but I’m half dog.”
“What?” whispered Amy.
“Oh, and I can’t turn back,” said Alice.
“I can shape shift,” said Amy.
“That sounds nice, but doesn’t all your family do that?” Alice asked.
“But yes, but I can do it cooler.” We could stay here until break and sneak out the
back door.
“Venessa is doing the register before break”. Alice said. The student fled out of
the classroom. Annie and Alice followed a few minutes later. They exited the
classroom and walked down the stairs then Amy stopped. She heard someone
sobbing in the cupboard under the stairs. Alice walked over to the door and
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opened it. To their surprise it was the bully, Cathy.
“Cathy, are you ok?” They asked.
“Yeah” said Cathy.
“But I’ve got cat ears and a tail!” Said Annie in surprise.
“Well,” said Alice, “so do I, but dog ears and a tail. Come on Cathy you can come
with us. We will explain on the way.”
When they got home to Annie’s house there was a box on the doorstep Annie
and the girls went in and opened the box. There was an adorable puppy inside.
“That is so cute.” Said Cathy. “Maybe it can help you to control Annie.” Said.
Annie turned in to a dog and said “hello” can you help my friends to control their
powers, yes said the dog and my name is sparkle...
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