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Aidan Alt4-12-19ELAMr. Lamison

Creative Writing/Fiction

Story Title: The Next Three Chapters of the True Confessions of Charlotte DoyleFirst chapters name: Zachariah’s Last Voyage

“What do you mean Charlotte?” Zachariah asked me in confusion.“What I mean Zachariah,” I said, “is that the SeaHawk is my home.”Once I made out Zachariah’s head in the darkness, it appeared to be looking at me in disbelief.“Charlotte, but what about your family?” Zachariah asked.“They don’t know I’m here.” I said.“Charlotte, you know you can’t just run away from home right?”There was a silence among us, then Zachariah said, “Charlotte, I was needing to tell you something.”“And that is?” I asked.“This will be my last voyage,” Zachariah said.“Well, where will we be traveling to?” I asked Zachariah.“Africa.” Zachariah replied, “I intend to go back to where I came from.”“Zachariah,” I said, “I must come with you!”“Charlotte,” Zachariah said, “Don’t make the same mistake I did by running away from home.”“Zachariah,” I said, “ I am coming with you.” “Alright then,” Zachariah said. And with those words I bordered the SeaHawk for the second time.

Chapter Two: Captain Jaggery’s Attempt of Revenge

Without a cloud in the sky, the SeaHawk was flying through the mid-Atlantic at a steady pace.“Charlotte,” Zachariah called me.“Yes,” I replied.“Would you care to join my me in my quarters for tea?” He asked.“Yes,” I said. As I walked into the room, I heard a distant chant, that seemed to be yelling Jag-ger-ry.“Charlotte,” Zachariah said in a panicking tone, what I heard he must have too, “Charlotte you need to

come with me this instant!” “What, why?” I asked him, starting to feel uncomfortable.“We hoped this would not happen, but do you recall what we told you when you climbed the bow

spread?” Zachariah said.“Yes, you mentioned that if I fell I could either fall down to the deck, or be lucky and land in the water,

but no one could turn the ship around in time to save me.”“Yes Charlotte, we could not save you.” He said.“But who could’ve saved me then?” I asked Zachariah.“Pirates,” he said.“Are you saying that pirates could have possibly saved Captain Jaggery when he fell into the water?”“Yes,” Zachariah said, in a frightened tone.“Did you hear the distant chant of Jag-ger-ry, shortly before I entered your quarters?” I asked

Zachariah.“I’m afraid so Charlotte,” Zachariah said.“So, Captain Jaggery could be heading our way right now, with a boat full of pirates?” I questioned

Zachariah.“Yes Charlotte, and I am afraid they are the very ones that are about to board our ship,” Zachariah said

frightened.

I turned around, and to my surprise saw three black pirates boarding the SeaHawk, and still on their boat was Captain Jaggery, a pistol in his holster.

“Charlotte,” Captain Jaggery said, “I am a man who does not stop until I have accomplished my deed.” The words made me shiver, as him informed me in a particular way.

As the pirates stood on the deck of the SeaHawk, keeping me and Zachariah hostage, the crew came out, with Captain Jaggery’s muskets at arm.

“Morgan,” Captain Jaggery said, “give me my musket.”“No,” Morgan said fiercely, “why do you want this musket anyway?” Morgan asked. When Captain Jaggery did not answer, he took his pistol from his holster, and said again to

Morgan,“Give me my musket.” This time more furious.“No,” Morgan replied again.And with those very words, Captain Jaggery raised his pistol, aimed it right at Morgan’s chest, fired,

and missed. At least everyone thought it missed. But after a while when Ewing started to walk to the forecastle, I realized something was wrong. When I walked over, the crew was huddled around a body. When I looked closer, I realized that Mr.Keetch was lying on the ground, blood spewing out of his chest. When Ewing came back out of the forecastle with a hammock, I realized that Mr.Keetch had died.

“He didn’t matter much anyway.” Captain Jaggery said.Everyone huddled around Mr.Keetch, said a prayer, and tossed him into the mid-Atlantic. While we

were giving Mr.Keetch his memorial and sayingare prayers, we did not realize that Captain Jaggery had bordered the SeaHawk, and was standing right behind us, his pirate crew by his side.

“Charlotte,” Captain Jaggery said, “I see you have joined the crew permanently.”“In matter of fact,” I started, “I did.”“According to your father, I am to bring you back home.” Captain Jaggery said.“How did you come in contact with him?” I asked him.“Your father thought this may happen, and he instructed me to correct it if it did,” Captain Jaggery said,

“so you are coming with me.”“No, I am not,” I said to Captain Jaggery.Captain Jaggery raised his pistol, pointed it at me, pulled the trigger, and a pistol shell backfired at him. When the crew realized that Captain Jaggery just tried to kill me, they raised Captain Jaggery’s

muskets and pointed every barrel right at Captain Jaggery’s chest.“Leave,” I said fiercely to Captain Jaggery.I did not expect Jaggery to listen, but he gestured toward the pirates, and they all left without a word.

But again, in the distance, I heard a soft, distant chant. This time it sounded like brother.

When everyone thought Captain Jaggery and his pirate crew left,

Captain Jaggery bordered the SeaHawk,

“I will not come with you!” I shouted at Captain Jaggery.

“Leave her alone,” Zachariah yelled to Captain Jaggery

Captain Jaggery raised his pistol,

“Zachariah!” I screamed.

Chapter 3: Zachariah

It was a time of despair. Seeing Zachariah’s family, walking up to his coffin and saying their prayer. But, I knew that I needed to say something also. As I walked up to the plank, chills ran down my spine, but I knew that in the end it would be worth it.

“Zachariah taught me everything I know about sailing.” I started, “It was sad when he passed away, as me and the crew,” oh, and by the way the crew was here, along with Zachariah’s three brothers, that I learned were the three pirates that bordered our ship, “tried so hard to keep him alive, but just as we reached the coast of Africa, Zachariah was no longer, die to a pistol wound, fired by Captain Jaggery. But I am to alert you that Captain Jaggery has also passed away. When Captain Jaggery had died, Zachariah’s brothers joined us to try to keep him alive, just so he could see his family, after 30 years of harsh, dretcheres work of a sailor. He was my friend that I will never forget.” And with those words I dropped Zachariah in his hammock, into the ocean off the coast of Africa. “This is the ship that he worked so hard on, the ship that he taught me everything I know.” As teardrops streaked down my face, I managed to say, “ I guess you were right, I was after all, your final friend.”

I am writing this documentary after chapter 2, but sorry about the page tears, Captain Jaggery wanted that documentary destroyed so that no one could see how guilty he was, I guess he did his part of what he wanted to do, well at least the part with Zachariah’s death.

After two days of writing this documentary, I have decided that I will rewrite the part where Zachariah died. Oh, wait, I was just asked to come with a detective about, wait I need to write this down, about Captain Jaggery washing ashore alive, soon after the detective arrived he fled. Ok, I need to go with the detective know and and tell him about Captain Jaggery.

Gabriella Balzano4/3/2019ELAMr. Lamison

Creative Writing/ Fiction

Story Title: the last breath.

Chapter 1

As I ran through the the kitchen I saw the door to the basement I threw it open and ran down, the crash of thunder and the flash of lightning had startled me, I ran into the tiny closet it was pitch black. I tried to stay calm but my tears were like a I heard the creeking of the stairs and as I looked at the door I saw the knob starting to turn I quickly grabbed the sharp metal coat hanger and when the door opened…. it was a sunny morning here on the countryside. The bright sun woke me up. As I was getting ready I heard grandma yell from the kitchen “Aria breakfast Is ready hurry down to eat” I quickly put my long hair into a ponytail and my white shirt with my old jean short overalls and as a 15 year old girl I don’t want to be rushed but I rushed down stairs to eat. And there was grandma preparing my plate.once I finished eating I had went out back I heard behind me the worst most horrible voice “ha is that little farm girl playing in the mud.” It was Mitchel we used the be best friends but once he did what he did to my neighbor I had never trusted him. I rolled my eyes and walked away something I knew Mitchel hated.He didn’t like to be ignored. He wanted to follow me that 16 year old leather clad maniac, but instead laugh and walked away. The clouds had rolled in a couple hours later and

grandma said she was going on a trip to London for the rest of the month. Once she left I had heard my phone go off and it had said “always keep your eyes open you don’t know who’s watching.” As the chills creeped up my body I didn’t know what to do I sat in the kitchen wondering who could of sent that. I heard the doorbell ring it was my other best friend Mia when I told her about the text message we heard a loud screech from upstairs even though the house is over a century old we never heard that noise, as me and Mia quickly ran upstairs we saw the window opened and footsteps from the window back “someone tried to break in and they left this.” It was a sharp blade Mia had started to burst into tears and she ran out the door and left. I quickly ran to very window every door to make sure they were locked like I was in a race and wanted to win. Suddenly I heard my phone go off again thinking it could be grandma to checking in but when I looked it had said “watch your back Aria.” As I thought it would be mitchel I knew if he did something to me that everyone would know it was him but I could be wrong I was questioning my friends. I decided to skip lunch and just go outside and take care of the animals. When I saw decided to go to Ryan’s house he was my age kind of like me once I got there I told him about the texts and the window being open. Time had passed and it was about 7:30 pm I had started to walk home when I got this weird feeling in my body so I started to walk a little bit faster than ran 3 blocks home. Grandma had called to make sure everything was going well I had told her that I was fine hiding my feelings from her. After dinner I got into my pajamas and when to bed but kept my light on I was afraid of sleep but then a head peeked through my door I had shut my eyes and hid at the bottom of my bed and had fallen asleep there. Once I woke up I looked at my phone and it said “yOu CaN RuN BuT CaN’t HiDe.” Another round of chills hit my body once I saw a note on the floor were I saw the person and it said “Aria this is my revenge for what you did to me.” I started to think very carefully of what I had done in the past and thinking what I did but couldn’t think of anyone. I didn’t try to think much of the note and text but I felt like there was a signal hitting my brain that someone is behind me but I tried to block it out.

Chapter 2I decided to stay home from school today my head was pounding my my stomach felt Like a deep hole

the chills hit my body I went down stairs with my mascara dripping down my face same with my eyeliner it was raining but the sun still was still shining. I made hot tea and some toast I sat at the table by myself thinking of those text and how I was feeling. My mind was deep with thoughts of people who could have done it. I went upstairs to change and fixed up my hair and face and sat down with my pencil. and appear chewing on my pencil furiously I was writing names of suspicious people. After about an hour I looked at my paper I had nobody I couldn’t think of anybody who could have done it. So I got up got my back pack, my phone, and the blade and went to my mothers tree when she said when she died she wanted to get buried in nature I miss her but I remember I woke up one morning and there she was on the ground in the kitchen. I tried to forget what I had saw but that time keeps on haunting me. I always come to the tree to talk to her and once I talked about what happened I closed my eyes and felt the cold breeze against my body And I heard “Aria listen to your heart not your head do what is best for you” I opened my eyes grabbed my stuff and went home I found another blade in the kitchen were mother had died and saw a not it said “your next” . I felt the chills again. I put the blade in my pocket and rushed into my room found the second blade in my room and put it under my mattress. Suddenly I felt a cold breath on my neck I turned nothing was there I got up opened my window and ran the drops of rain started to hit me I was running as fast as I could with fear in my body my heart pounding I kept on running until a hand touched my mouth I tried to get away but they held me tight I tried to see who it was but not only was it one man it was two men trying to hold me tight I tried to see who they were but they had black masks on I could on see there eyes. I finally pushed out and hid behind the big tree in fear to stay alive. I heard the footsteps coming closer to me my heart said to run but my mind said to fight. Once I heard out “Aria no one can help you you can run but can’t hide.” The rain started to hit my harder I felt the tears dripping down my face out of breath ready to just give up I started to run I could hear someone getting closer and closer to me I had saw my house coming into site I looked up and saw all of the lights off In each house and Mia peeking through the window and could see me I wanted to yell but that would startle her. I saw my currents to my room suddenly shut but without stopping ran inside I didn’t see anyone behind me I ran to the basement and hid there I felt a sharp pain in my back and realized I wasn’t alone it must have been the second guy I stood there and didn’t move but once I looked over my shoulder I could so a smile appearing I wanted to fight but my body was stuck in the same position.once I heard the door starting to creek open I grabbed other blade out of my pocket and the old metal coat hanger and without a flash I saw both men on the floor with big red lines on there face and through there shirt. I had so much fear then ran again.

Chapter 3Right away I grabbed my phone and called the police and told them what happened I was shaking

then next I saw Grandma slam through the door “I heard what was going on Mia had called!” I told grandma

what happened once the police arrived I was still shaking the rain had stopped but the dark clouds were still there staring at me with great danger in its color. Once they got the two men I looked at their faces it was mitchel and he was with this man that I seemed to remember he looked familiar when it hit me that it was the neighbor when mitchel had left he went right next store when I saw the fear on his face almost every day walking to school and realized he was forced to do this but looked like now he wanted to kill me. That night we shut every shudder and hid a blade under my mattress and the other one under grandmas. I went to bed feeling scared I could feel like something was finished my eyes started to shut and the next morning I saw grandma pacing the floor I had put on my yellow sundress and my white heels because we were going out to eat I wanted things to go back to normal and be how they were before.but there was fear in grandma's eyes she told me to follow her as she slowly opened the basement door we walked down the creaky steps shaking she opened the closet there was a note on old paper it said “you thought we would end here haha this isn’t the end of your nightmare.” A tear went down my face me and grandma looked at eachother and ran upstairs we put our stuff into suitcases packed everything and left we were off the london were we are going to be safe at least hopefully. As we were driving I saw mother’s tree and said my final farewell and suddenly there was a strange man on the side of the road there were two and both had orange jumpers on I told grandma to go I scream and cried they knew were we are. The panic in my voice as I said “we are going to die…” my body starting to tremble grandma returned her answer and said “we are fierce and strong we will live but we will hide and be prepared for whatever happens.” As we kept on driving the sun started to shine which made me happy. Everything was going well until my phone buzzed it was a text another text and it said “you are strong like you mother was but how do you think she did die?” grandma saw the text and she called the police right away.i tired to stay calm when I started to breath heavy feeling like I was losing air I started to panic I turned pale as snow and my tears coming down and Suddenly everything went black.

Chapter 4When I woke up I was in bed with a hospital gown on. grandma by my side her face was red and when

I woke up I was wondering what had happened when the doctor came in and said that I had a panic attack and stopped breathing for a couple seconds and was lucky to still be alive. After two week we went home to the house in London I looked around the house was very nice and clean everything was put together and when I went in my room my eyes grew it was huge but there was something strange that I had felt. the sun was shining which made me smile after about an hour I had still not gotten a text didn’t see any notes nothing I had the feeling that I was living a normal life grandma had sold the animals to the new owner of the house. “they are deciding to knock down the house and rebuild it” my heart sunk because of all of the memories that had been engraved into the house. My eyes starting to burn but I wiped them away there was a park down the street so I went and sat on the bench I missed Mia and called her and asked how everything was going and how she was and I heard her say “me and my mom are in the basement” she was wailing. I tried to calm her down and then she said “there are coming for me I saw one of them glance up and knew I called the cops” and suddenly the call ended I started to cry she was my best friend and I didn’t want anything to happen to her I so I got up ran home packed suitcase and told grandma I was going to see Mia she tried to stop me but I refused to stay until she was ok I got a taxi to get to the countryside once I got there I ran right to the basement and saw Mia on the ground covered in red eyes wide open I dropped to my knees weak I started to cry and just stared at her. When I looked around her mother wasn’t there anymore I cried even harder then a tightrope went around my wrist getting tighter and tighter more pain had hit my body until I dropped to the floor struggling to stay alive I tried to see there face but they ran a loud with a sudden loud BOOM! And my heart started to beat slower and slower my thought started to vanish my eyes shutting then I took a deep breath and my mind took over my body and captured the moment I was stuck in forever.

Zach clewell 4-3-19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: the sunken charter boat July 27th, 2018, annapolis harbor. A charter man named Paul was getting ready to go out fishing. Once he had gotten all the gear ready for the trip all 10 passengers had arrived. So they all got on the boat, and they set off down the Chesapeake bay. As they were heading down they bay the had started to noticed a lot of boats hurriedly going the opposite way as them and they were all wondering “why is everyone rushing back?” As they were heading to their spot the wind would pick up for a little bit and the water would become really choppy then it would calm down. When they finally made it to were they wanted to be the water was calm but it almost felt to calm. So they threw the anchor and casted some lines out. They were catching so many fish like mahi-mahi, yellowfin tuna, and Bonita. Then all of a sudden something big had hooked on the line so they were fighting it and fighting it. As they attempted to land the big fish, clouds began to roll in and the winds picked up. Then the boat started to get tossed around, and it started to rain really really hard, and thunder was striking all over the place so they had to cut the line and rush in, but the line would not cut so they kept on trying and trying and trying till it finally worked. The water was so rocky and they were going up and down splashing all around and then they had finally realized why everyone was rushing in Because there was a massive storm coming in that they had not heard about coming in. There were times when the bow of the boat almost went under, and times when the bow of the boat would go under. There was water everywhere on the boat, but all of a sudden a massive wave came crashing down right onto the boat but they did not sink and there were so many more big waves and the boat was soaked and so was everyone else but then there were waves after waves after waves after waves, then they had realized that they were close to the harbor, but then one huge wave came in crashed down onto the boat so hard that it broke in half. when the wave crashed down onto the boat it came down so hard that it had killed everyone on the boat. Except for one.

Name Kassidy FrevertDate April 4 2019ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: who??

Who?My name is Elly May, I’m 13 and I live in a small town off the coast of New

Jersey . My mom works in New York, she says if she leaves her job then we would lose everything we have, but there is nothing to lose . We live in a one room apartment with nothing. We have nothing but my mom thinks it’s not too bad here. So I’m left alone every Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday and Friday every week every year all the time, but what I did not know is I was never left alone. My school is not the best it’s only a little school in the corner of town, not much to learn here. My school will never be a fancy, no school uniforms, there’s only 15 kids in the school, there is only one flight of stairs with only 5 classes and bet every kid my age thinks I can’t wait to go home but I’m not interested in going home . As I walk up to the little apartment I live in I held my nose as I walked through the building it smelled like the oil from the gas station next to the apartment. After I walk through the door I layed flat back on the floor that was covered in dust. Then I heard a large bang it was so loud it made my heart skip a few beats and I left me for a gasp of air. A woman screeched LEAVE, LEAVE it was so high pitch it was ringing in my ears: LEAVE, LEAVE again another yell desperate for help it became harder to hear LEAVE, LE before she could let out that word it got cut off. Then it was silent, the silence lead me to think help has I picked myself off the floor. I shuffle back from the door I heard the trudged footsteps run down the hall but the black boots stop by the door that I lived in. The boots circle the door but then after a few seconds the the black trudged boots sweep down the hall, I found myself finishing the words the woman

would of yelled and I whispered leave . But I did not have time to look back my one job was to get inside I closed the door fastly but trying not to make a noise then all off a sudden there was a deep voice that say don’t

A few days passed and found myself scared of my own apartment. I was ready for school waiting till I could leave my home and I walked out the apartment door, my heart racing to get out, but then I heard the sound that made me cry. BANG, I ran inside tears running down my face, the last time I heard this ear ringing noise was four doors down but this seemed closer. But I had no time to look just to run back up the stairs and lock the door to my apartment BANG echoes in the halls I finally got to my apartment I held my breath scared for my life my faced turn a purple color then BANG then I started to breath again then all of a sudden the air became hard to breath and easy to see I wanted open the window to get air but I could not the windows because to fog up so I tried to open the door but the door Handle was to hot it burned my hand where I wanted to scream but I could not the room started to hurt my head and my ears started to ring I was dizzy I could not stand straight I wanted to scream but I could not I was to scared but then I had no choice but try to yell but it came out so quite so hard so pitiful of me trying just to say help.

Jayden Herman4/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Golden life

3 am: Knock Knock “open up” “ what do you want Mr Tim.” said Tyler “breakfast now” “ok ok” Tyler woke as heard mr Tim wake up all the other inmates. Jimmy is another inmate, him and Tyler are good friends but anything could happen At anytime. Jimmy and Tyler are sitting at a table by themselves “did you hear mr Tim is trying and start a football team” suddenly out of nowhere a fight broke out “Ahhh” “take that” people were screaming. 3:34 am: mr Tim and all the other guards called a group meeting “here we go” said Tyler “so I gathered you all here today because I have some news, so I want to start a football team” Immediate silence. “Woo hoo let’s go” said inmates“I’m just kidding” said mr Tim “get in you cells now” said Tim everyone was very mad

Chapter 2

“That’s it I’m done with this prison, I’m going to Escape” said jimmy “wanna escape with me”? “No” said Tyler with a deathly look on his face “why not”? “Because if we try to escape you want to be along for the journey” “what are you trying to say Tyler”? “I’m going to kill you” he pulls out a knife and no one ever saw jimmy alive again. A week later the guards found jimmy dead with 15 stab wounds, “we have to figure out who did this, let’s go look at the security cameras” they went back to look at the cameras and found out it was Tyler so they went looking for him and they found Tyler hiding in the vents and they said “get down from there” so he got down and now he’s getting the death penalty Tyler is laying down for the death penalty and he knew he got to request a food so he requested KFC bowl of chicken side of steak and fries and some strawberries and some

water. He ate all the food when he was done his final words were “LET ME SEE THE LIGHT AGAIN!” And the light shines bright on his face he smiles and says “Thank you” and the gets electrocuted and dies.

Chapter 3

My name is ty Lawson and my dream is to escape this maximum-security prison. I’ve been in this prison for 33 years and I’m 48 now I have Been in jail since I was 15 and now it is my time to escape. I planed to call my mama today for her help I called her and I said “I need your help” “ok, anything for you honey” “I need you to send a box cutter in the spine of a book” “for what”? “No time for Explaining I just need you to do it” “ok?” said mom 3 days later “knock” “knock” “open up I have a package for you” He got the book opens it up and boom box cutter this is my time to shine. While there is a security camera watching me there was a blind spot right behind it and that’s when I knew I could cut a hole right behind the camera. When I first came to this prison I scouted out every place I could get out like vents, and how big walls were, and so on I knew it took three buzzers for the guards to get through each of the three doors so if I was in the vent I would have 15 seconds to get back in the box. The ceiling was pretty hard so if I tried to cut myself out it would be loud. Ty knew a friend that he could call to be his pick up person he went to go call her “Hey Sharon I need you to pick me up at this address at 11:54 sharp” ok? Ok said Sharon. Since I knew the ceiling would be loud to get out so needed to start something with the other inmates “yo Zach carter said something about you today” then carter and Zach went at it and other inmate went with it and then I started to cut and finally I finished I needed to make a dummy out of my pillows and use the sheet to get down from the big walls 11:53 I was in the vent and I cut the vent and saw the car in the parking lot and It was my escape car I threw the sheet down and slipped of the edge from a 50 foot wall and fell on my head and died and my perfect escape failed and Sharon was arrested for trying to be the escape girl.

Brenna HorgerApril 3rd, 2019ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: The True location of Charlotte Doyle and the crew.Prologue

After storms and fights, Captain Jaggery has been washed away. We are throwing his journal off the boat now. We shall let the voyage’s continue...

Zachariah.

Chapter 1“Be back before dinner”, I heard my mom call to us. “Okay we will”, I call back, eager to

get to the beach. “Come on Zachariah”, I tell my little brother. We start the long walk to the beach. It’s right near the boat docks, and me and Zach (Zachariah) always like to look at the carving in the wood from Charlotte Doyle. Charlotte is my hero, not just because we have the same name, but because of all of the amazing things she’s done. While I study the carving, Zach is always making snow angels in the soft, white sand. “Charlotte!” I hear Zach call to me. I turn and see him probably about a mile down the beach. I start to run, knowing if I hold it off any longer we won’t be back in time for dinner. When I finally get there out of breath, I see him holding what looks like a soggy, ripped journal. “Look what I found”, he says, holding the book

out to me. I take it, being careful it doesn’t fall apart in my hands. “It’s probably nothing”, I tell him and toss it on the snowy beach. “But…” he starts to say, but I cover his mouth, and pick up the book. I listen. I heard a noise, like a splash and a storm.

Chapter 2“Miss Doyle”, “Miss. Doyle”, I hear the familiar voice of Zachariah. As I start to rise, I

notice my surroundings, leaves, the broken boat. “What’s the matter?”, I ask Zachariah. “The book, the book’s been found”, he tells me. “I know, their names are Charlotte and Zach”, he says, remembering the dream I was just living.

I open my eyes. “Whoa, you just like starting talking about Liverpool”, Zach says to me, astonished. “Let’s just go home”, I tell him, but before we can start walking, Zach stops. “You, Zach have found my journal, bring it to the CREW, they will know what to do”, “And if you don’t by next Friday, you and your family will be hanged!”, we turn around frantically, looking for the source of the voice, but find none. “Come on!”, Zach calls to me, “We have to eat dinner!” I turn around, staring at the book sprawled open on the and. Quickly I grab it off the ground, shaking the sand off. I tuck it in my coat and chase after Zach.

Chapter 3“Nobody is going to come on a journey to ‘find’ Charlotte and the crew of the SeaHawk,

Char”, Nick tells me after I told him the story. “I was thinking”, I start to tell him, “Maybe I could bring you”. “Oh, no you don’t understand. I have to go to school and get good grades”, Nick says, looking for an excuse. “Christmas break starts tomorrow”, I tell him annoyed.

That night I opened the book. Inside I read, “Today begins a new voyage. Taking Miss. Charlotte Doyle to Providence, Rhode Island. I do not usually decide to journal my thoughts on a voyage, however this is a very important. Her father is a big part of the company that owns my boat, The Seahawk. “Rise the sails!”, I yell to my crew. They do as told, looking just how I want them to, miserable and sad, and the voyage hasn’t even started yet! I chuckle to myself and walk to my cabin. A few days out, I can tell that this is going to be a great voyage, the crew is miserable and I’ve already met Miss. Doyle. She is very proper and is getting along just nicely.” “Charlotte, you better be in bed, or you don’t even what to the know the consequences!”, I hear my dad call to me. I quickly close the book and toss it under what used to be Charlotte Doyle’s sister, Evelina’s bed.

Chapter 4“Charlotte, wake up”, I wake to Nick and Zach at the foot of my bed. “Jaggery’s at the

door”, Zach whispers to me, a little loudly. “Here take this and climb out the window with us”, Nick says, trying to be as quiet as possible, as he throws me a big, green bag. “I’ll hold the door”, Nick calls to us, now trying his hardest to not let Jaggery in the door. “It’s open”, Zack calls to us. “Quickly, out!”, screamed a very tired Nick. We all quickly jumped out the window on to our trampoline. “Come on let’s go”, Nick, now looking very relieved, told us. We started to walk, but after hours, Nick showed no sign in stopping.

Chapter 5“When do you think they will get here?”, I ask Keech. We have been waiting for these kids

for about three hours. “I have no clue, but after they get here and we destroy the journal, maybe they can help us fix the boat”, Keech suggested. “Or we can use this boat!”, we hear Morgan call from the back of the cave. We run to the river running in our cave, and we saw a huge boat. “That’s great, just can you move it to the exit of the cave after we help these kids”, I call down to him. “Yes!”, he called back up.

After three days of running from Jaggery, we saw a cave with parts of what looked like a boat. “You two go in the cave, I’ll get wood for a fire”, Nick reassured us. We entered the cave. It wasn’t much different from a normal cave, rocks, damp, dark, and running water. Wait! Running water. “Zach do you hear the water?”, I asked him. “It’s from the ocean outside”, he replied, looking eager to get back to watching Nick. I didn’t think it was from outside. As I started to inch forward, I heard a crunch, like a stick. Quickly I swung around, but saw nothing. It was getting darker and darker, so I began to hug the wall. About five minutes after of walking, I decided I should probably start to head back, but as I turned and put my hand to the wall, I touched what felt like a face. Startled, I jumped back and screamed, but only fell into someone else’s arms. That was all that I remembered.

Chapter 6

My eyes darted open. I scanned the room I was in. It still looked like the cave I was in, however I am now not on solid ground. When I looked down, I noticed my feet dangling. It was then did I start to feel the rope around my neck.

“Go find Char”, I call to Zach. I watch him skip into the cave. I was probably sitting there for about half an hour before I went looking for him. What I saw that day in the cave was very interesting. Zach had found the crew and Charlotte Doyle! They claim they’ve only been in here for three days, but we told them it’s been 256 years! “Hello, fellow shipmates”, we hear a voice sounding like Captain Jaggery. “You’re alive”, we all exclaim at once. “Oh, of course I’m still alive, when I fell off the boat that day, another ship picked me up somewhere on the coast of Rhode Island.”, he explained, “And by the way you have one hour before you all get hanged”.

So Zachariah, and Fisk started doing something with the journal, to me it looked like they were destroying it. The rest of us got to work fixing their boat. “Five minutes!”, we heard Jaggery call. The journal was destroyed, but it was already too late. “Zachariah, and Cranick, come forth”, Jaggery beckoned, a smirk on his face. Nick and Zach walked forward, preparing to be hanged. By now the crew was long gone. At least we would die with our family.

Epilogue We never found out what happened to those nice children, but we know what happened to

us. After we left, another porter told us the year and, to our surprise, we had traveled to our own time, and are still continuing the voyage’s that were meant to happen. Keech is now the Captain, and I still journal, always careful to use good grammar, in case my Father ever reads this. Let the journey continue!

Fellow crew member,Charlotte Doyle.

Sami HussELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: The Girl

One summer morning in 1990, a beautiful baby girl was born in a palace, the baby was born into royalty. The baby’s name was Bella.

Bella was a pretty young girl who always put other people in front of her. Bella’s mother was so happy when she found out she was having a baby girl, but her happiness didn’t last so long.

About 2 weeks after Bella was born, her mother put her in her crib to fall asleep, when the mom walked out of the room and shut the door behind her, a man dressed in all black with black hair came into the mother and father's room where Bella was sleeping, he grabbed Bella and jumped out the window without making a sound. The mom came back ten minutes later to check on Bella and she screamed as loud as she could. The mother screamed so loud, all the birds on their house flew away into the pine trees near the window. The father came rushing up to the mother to find her on the floor passed out.

When the mother woke up fifteen minutes later, she started to ball her eyes out. The father had no idea what was going on at this point. “What’s wrong dear?” The father asked. “Bella, she is gone, someone stole our precious baby.” The mother said while she was crying. The mother was crying so much, the father had to soak up the tears from the floor. “We will find Bella, I know we will.” The father said while trying to comfort his wife.

Years had passed and Bella was still nowhere to be found. The father and mother had everyone in their kingdom look for their precious little baby girl. Every night, the mother would cry in her bed and dream about Bella being with them again, which made the mother cry even more. The father hated seeing his wife like this, he was determined to do something about it. The father decided to open the palace to visitors only on Bella’s birthday, he hoped Bella would come through those doors one day.

“Papa, When will I be able to visit the palace for my birthday?” Bella asked. “Never, That palace is full of cold hearted people who care about no one but themselves.” The man said. “I must leave now, stay in the house, if I find that you have left the house, you will have to deal with the consequences.” The man said.

The man went out of the house and slammed the door behind himself to give Bella a scare. The man locked the door and didn’t come back for a long time.

Finally the man came back after 6 hours. “Papa, I wanted to talk to you about the palace.” Bella said enthusiastically. “No, we don’t talk about that dreadful place.” The man said. “Papa, I’m 3, I just want to go through the two front doors for a minute to see what it’s like.” Bella said. “I thought I said NO.” The man said angrily. Bella ran went up the stair to her room, while she was walking upstairs, sadness filled her face and tears began to flood her eyes.

Down at the palace, things were not good. The mother became anxious, Bella’s birthday was tomorrow, every birthday they had the palace open, Bella never came through the doors. “It’ll be okay.” The father said. “What if she doesn’t come through the doors tomorrow?” The mother asked her husband. “We can’t think about that. Now, let’s go eat dinner.” The father said.

“Bella, go fix me something to eat, Papa has a long day tomorrow.” The man said. “Yes Papa.” Bella said depressed. The one thing Bella didn’t know, was that the man she called Papa, isn’t her actually father, he is a wanted cereal killer.

Later that night, the man told Bella that he was going out and wouldn’t be back until the morning. “Bella, I’m leaving in ten minutes, I will not be back until ten in the morning tomorrow. Don’t leave the house or else…..” The man was cut off by Bella finishing his words. “I have to deal with the consequences. I know, you tell me everyday you leave.” The man was proud of Bella for remembering, he was also very worried that she would go to the palace in the morning.

At four in the morning the next day, Bella got up, made herself some breakfast, and watched some cartoons. One the other end of the Mountain they live on, was the castle, things were going okay over there. The mother and father opened the castle doors for visitors to come through. Bella became sneaky and decided that she wanted to go see the palace. Bella left the house and locked the door behind her with the house key in her hand.

Bella was headed up to the castle when she saw her Papa come down the mountain to her cottage. Bella ran as fast as she could back to the house. Bella ran behind the house to get in through a window so her Papa doesnt know she left the house. Bella couldn’t find any windows that were unlocked. Bella decided to go through the front door. When Bella went to the front door to unlock the door with the key, she saw her Papa. “What are you doing outside of the house?” The man yelled. “Uh, um, well, NOTHING.” Bella ran towards the palace. Bella didn’t stop to take a break because she knew that whatever was going to happen, wasn’t going to be good.

When Bella reached the palace, she stopped to look at it, then opened the door. Bella went through the door and saw a puppy. When Bella saw this puppy, she ran towards the puppy. The puppy started licking Bellas face and jumping up and down. Bella was laughing so hard that she forgot that her Papa was chasing her up to the castle. “Bella, what do you think your doing??!!” The man asked angrily. “Papa, can we keep the dog?” Bella asked like nothing happened. “Bella, your coming with me and the dog stays in this dreadful castle.” The man told Bella. “But Papa, I love this dog.” Bella said convincing. “I SAID NO!” The man yelled. Bella and the man heard footsteps coming toward them. “We have to go now.” The man said scared. “No Papa, I want to look around.” Bella refused. “WE ARE LEAVING NOW!” The angry man yelled. The mother and father were walking towards Bella when they heard that man's voice. The man grabbed Bella by her arm and threw her on his back and ran. “HELP! PLEASE HELP ME!” Bella screamed. The mother and father were

determined to help this little girl. “Stop!” Said the mother. The man did not stop. The mother and father sent two of their guards to go find the girl and the man.

The guards followed the man and the girl all the way to their little cottage. The one guard mentioned that it looked like the lost princess and that wanted cereal killer. The guards became frightened by that. One guard went to spy and the other guard went back to the palace to inform the parents about their discovery. “We are leaving this dreadful town, do you understand me?” The man asked Bella. “Yes Papa.” Bella said very sad. “It was a mistake to bring you here.” The man said. “What do you mean Papa?” Bella asked so kindfully. “Nothing, I have said too much.” The man told Bella with a frightened tone. “Papa, I want to go out more often.” Bella said. “You can When we move.” The man said cheerfully. “Why can’t I now?” Bella said worried. “It’s too dangerous.” The man made up an accuse. At the palace, the mother and father had become frightened with their new information. The mother and father sent two more guards to go to the little cottage.

The two guard eventually came to the cottage and knocked on the door. “Hello, is there anybody in their?” The one guard asked. “Don’t say a word.” The man said to Bella. “You can’t tell me what to do.” Bella said. “I can hear you.” The guard said. “Now open this door before I open it myself.” The guard insisted. Bella ran out the door and up to the palace. The man went after her, but the guard stopped him, put handcuffs on him and took him to the palace.

Once they reached the palace, the guards let the man out of their little car. When the man was let out of the car, Bella looked at him and asked this one question, “What did you do this time?” The man looked confused, “I know what you did Papa, or should I call you Denis?” Bella said concerned. “This man...I mean Denis, is a very much wanted cereal killer.” The guard told Bella. “I know, that’s why I ran here when you weren’t home.” Bella said. “I wanted to be safer and away from you.” Bella said. “Your smart for a 3 year old.” Denis said. The guards took Denis into the palace and showed him to the mother and father. “This is the man who kidnap your daughter, Bella.” The guard said. “You shall be put in jail for the rest of your life.” The mother said. Bella walked through the front doors of the castle very slowly hoping to find the puppy again. “Excuse me your majesty, do you know where your dog is?” Bella asked. “I certainly do.” The mother said. “Spots is right over there behind the bench sleeping, you may go see him if you wish.” The mother said once more. “Thank you.” Bella said. Bella went over to see the puppy. The mother and father came over to Bella no more than two minutes after Bella went to see the puppy. “Bella?” The father asked. “How do you know my name?” Bella asked startled. “I’m your mother, this is your father.” The mother told Bella while tearing up. “You mean, I was stollen?” Bella asked. “Yes.” The father said. “We can get more into detail later.” Mother said. The three of them just stared at each other for a minute, then Bella got up from under the bench and hugged her parents. “I knew this palace felt familiar.” Bella said. “You were born here and everything.” The father announced. The puppy wanted to join their hug to, so the puppy went through the middle of the parents and Bella and laid down. They lived happily ever after since.

Marie KateuszApril 3, 2019ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: DaydreamerPrologue

This is a story about Julianna Parkinson. Julianna was a very intelligent girl and was born March 3rd. Julianna’s teachers wanted her teachers wanted her to pay attention in class but she daydreamed a lot. It was

June 17, 2008 and Julie was just finishing up 6th grade. Next year she would be going to a private school, and hopefully she would fit in with the other kids.

Chapter 1

So school is finally over and I have to spend a whole summer with my snotty little brothers. I just remembered that I told Reed and Jenny that I would ask my mom if they could come over to my house for dinner… mom said that she would ask their parents. Oh I forgot to tell you, Reed and Jenny are my best friends. My mom said that they would be over in about half an hour. Yay they’re here.

While we were eating dinner Reed hit his plate by accident and got pizza sauce all over himself. Then Jenny hit her glass and spilled that all over herself and then I had to give Jenny new clothes so that she wasn’t all sticky and Daniel my 11 year old brother had to give Reed new clothes because Reed is small enough to fit into my brother’s clothes, I have to admit it’s pretty sad. After dinner we played tag in the backyard and then we got bored so we played Marco Polo next and then when we got bored of Marco Polo we went inside and we made sundaes I think mine was the best.

About four hours later Reed and Jenny left and now mom has to clean up dinner and I should probably go help her.I thought that cleaning up dinner would’ve taken about five minutes instead it took like ten minutes. Well it is about 9:00 so I will stay to tell you about this one girl. Her name is Alex and she bullies me a lot and by now I’m used to it. Oh hold on I’m getting a phone call… okay now I’m scared because I just got a phone call from someone I don’t know and he said that if I didn’t go to the park now that he would come hurt my family so here goes nothing.

Here we are at the park oh no it’s Chad, Alex’s older brother, and even worse he’s got his friends.Well I’m on my way home and he beat me up for no reason at all. I think he sprained my wrist, it hurts

really bad and it is starting to swell up. I should go have my mom look at this.

So when I get back upstairs I was startled RIIING RIIING RIIING! *Gasp* who is calling me this late at night?

“Meet me at the river at 6 am sharp don’t be late or your family is in trouble.” From the sound of it this person did not seem to happy.

What why would anyone do this?!?! I thought to myself.

5:45 am

Well, I’m heading to the river and I’m pretty scared……………………………… AHHHHH! What’s happening Next thing I knew I was underwater. “Come on Brad” someone said the rest wasn’t clear but now I have the name. When I had woken I was in the hospital I saw my mom and my brothers talking with the doctors.

After months of visiting hospitals summer was finally over, and today was the day that I was attending the new school. When I got there I was looking around seeing the new faces and they were all new but one. The familiar one was the from the river I walked over and asked what his name was “Bradley Cooper, my friends call me Brad, hey you look familiar where have I seen you?” “I’ll give you one word, river.” “You’re the girl that almost drown in the river “by mistake” see…” “you’re the one that drown me” I said as I started walking away “You’re just as foolish now as you were that night” I mumbled. “What was that little girl?” He snapped, “I said you’re just as foolish now as you were that night. See you in class.”

When he walked in the room he was passing my seat, so I stuck my foot out and tripped him. His books went all over the floor, “What was that for.” His face red as his shoes, “What was what for?” I asked “You tripped me.” He said “Prove it.” I snapped back. “Uggggghhh,” he groaned as he walked to the back of the room to take his seat. On Thursday we had and assembly and Brad was getting awarded for who knows what and when he was coming past me he tripped over his own to feet and he face planted, I smiled a great big

smile the biggest smile anyone has ever seen and as he walked away he gave me a sarcastic smirk. After a week of fun and games (for me at least) I got home and my mom and my brothers were at the door waiting for me to walk in like a bunch of hungry hawks watching its prey. I told them how I saw the kid who almost drown me and how he was mad all week and how I tripped him in class and how I smiled when he tripped over his own two feet.

“Serves him right.” My mom said almost choking on her breath as she laughed. “This is true.” I said laughing hysterically. The rest of the night we spent talking about Brad and school and if I had made any friends. The next day was Saturday and well… it was pretty boring just kidding mom was making arrangements for me to stay home on Monday we went to lunch with Reed and Jenny and then we went out shopping I got stuff to make slime and so we went home and we made slime, but other than that I kind of just played outside or made a run to the lemonade stand because it was 84 degrees out. When it was finally time for bed I went upstairs, brushed my hair, and teeth, got my pajamas on and read a little, next thing you know is me lying in bed bored out of my mind, then I heard mom talking with my principal on the phone but I was too tired to listen in.

It was Tuesday and finally I called a truce with Brad. Now he wants to be friends but he also tried to drown me so I’m kind of in between options. I guess I’ll give him one chance, and one only. But I’ll give him a chance.

So he’s finally being nice I wonder why maybe he feels bad for trying to drown me, who knows what he’s going to do. I also can’t believe that we’re already in 2nd trimester. And my birthday is in a week should I invite Brad… should I not? Well I have to decide soon because I’m making invitations Friday when I get home. Eh, who cares I’ll invite him to my party I’ll obviously invite Reed, and Jenny to my party and well I’ll see who else to invite.

Andrew Lehmann4-3-19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: She who Prays

Chapter 1 My Daughter Hannah always had a fascination of bugs from all kinds. She collected them and kept them in a empty Terrarium, she insisted I buy her one when she was six, it was a constant rotation as her interest changed. When she was younger, it was ladybugs and caterpillars now that she’s a teenager she’s got into more unusual things, like mantises and stick insects, most of the time I thought she related better to them than she did to me and her friends at school. Not that she had many of them, but she never gets bullied, she just kept it to herself. My wife and unborn son were lost at childbirth and when I adopted Hannah, I never really tried giving her any girly stuff. So her going out and collecting bugs in the woods never really struck me as odd. What did strike me as odd is that her terrarium was currently empty, I found a shoebox and asked her about it and she said that it’s for a project. And as she reminded me they don’t have cocoons they have ootheca it was something that looked like a cocoon but sounded more like Dr. Seuss creation than a real thing. Still, of all the bugs I found mantises were the most interesting to me, the way they stood, with those close in the air. Hannah and I watched one on the front porch once, stand still just to wait for something to walk by. She said they eat other bugs and sometimes each other. Without missing a beat, she said sometimes the larger female would eat the smaller males, or if unlucky Sometimes before leaving nothing but wings and legs behind. That was around the time I stopped asking questions. Despite how odd the shoebox was I put it out of my mind, because what was most important to me was the annual town chili cook off.

Chapter 2 To close out the summer our little town put on a big fall festival, and besides beer, donuts, and local bands who couldn’t make it big anywhere else, we had a chili cook off. I knew this year was my chance to win something. I have never placed, but this year I had a recipe I was sure was going to make everyone stand up and take notice. I especially wanted to beat out Harris Bolls, if nothing else. Harris usually won first place, but got dethroned last year, and had spent the better part of the year telling the winner, Ellie Hopkins, that she cheated every chance he got. He tried to pass it off as joking, but everyone knew he was just being bitter and an butt about it. As I worked on my recipe in secret every night, perfecting the recipe wherever I could, life in the house went on as usual, with Hannah taking her little trips out the woods to collect and catalog all her little specimens. Thing is, she would come in fairly late at night, mostly around dinner time, and except for the shoebox, I didn’t see her doing much of anything else.I wasn’t completely stupid, I felt like there was more to it than she was letting on, but hey, at least studying bugs was a better hobby than smoking and skateboarding around town like most of the teenagers around here did. But I couldn’t help the feeling that she had found someone, and just didn’t want me to know who it was. She probably would think I didn’t approve, but hanging out with anyone was a step up in my book. On the day of the festival, I was sure my recipe was going to be a winner. Harris would never even know what hit him. I got up around the crack of dawn, only to find Hannah was already up. Now that was certainly strange, she barely woke up at all unless I went in to get her. Still with that shoebox at her side.“Hey Dad, just wanted to tell you your chili tastes great. You should make sure you have some later.” I was flattered that she even cared. But, despite her kind words, I had tried so much of my own chili trying to get it ready that, to be honest, I was kind of sick of eating the stuff. I didn’t say that to her, but I did thank her. Amazingly, she wanted me to give her a ride to the festival, when I didn’t even know she had planned go. I was so happy, I didn’t even remember to buckle my seatbelt on the way there.I was actually one of the earliest, as more and more shuffled into the tent. Harris and Ellie were actually among the last to arrive, and gave each other dirty looks as they set up on opposite sides of the tent. I was just happy to see Hannah come in right when the tent opened. She came by, smiling, and said, “I think the competition is going to be really fun this year. I’m really hoping you win.” With the shoebox still under her arm, she started going to all the other tables. I hoped she wouldn’t ruin her dinner trying absolutely everybody’s, but again, just the fact that she was here made me feel on the top of my game.

Chapter 3 As the day wore on, I could swear most of the town came through. Most of them complimented my chili, but when the judges came by, they all wore their best stone faces. I couldn’t tell where I stood, but I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. I just hoped that nobody cared that I went and got a couple of hot dogs from one of the food trucks outside for lunch. They were some kind of teriyaki/Korean barbecue-style things. Really wish I had thought of those, they were pretty good.Finally, the time came when the judges reached their decision. Near the entrance flap, the judges stood up, and announced third place: Ellie Hopkins. There was a nice round of applause, and she took the award with a smile.Then second place: Me. More applause, and I raised my arms in triumph. Sadly, though, even as I grinned and accepted my little silver cup, I felt a twinge as I could guess who the first place winner was.I was right. Harris had claimed his crown once again. He acted as you might have expected a five-time champion with no sense of class would act, yelling like he was so surprised that it had happened and high-fiving everyone, even if they didn’t have their hands up. He took his gold trophy, cleared his throat, and began delivering his victory speech, which sounded like he had been practicing the night before. He got three lines in when he cleared his throat again. He got one more line before he gave a horrendous cough, and then made a sound like his chili was coming up again.It would’ve been hilarious, if everyone in the tent, other than myself, hadn’t started doing the same thing.Harris clutched at his throat and retched one last time, and this time I could see his throat had something terribly wrong with it. It was swollen, and reddening with each passing second. His whole face was turning bright red, in fact.I looked around for help, but the EMTs on hand in the tent were also grabbing at their throats and falling to the

ground.I ran to Harris and, assuming he was choking, got in place to give him the Heimlich. I gave one quick thrust.It was the worst thing I could have done. In that moment, I felt something underneath Harris’ skin, at his stomach, squirming and wriggling, and when I applied that pressure, it made it all press up and out.Something greenish fell from his mouth in a wave, and then his nose, and then his throat. It split open like a sausage that had been squeezed. The greenish wave, I saw, started writhing on the ground in a thick mass. I stepped away from Harris as his body fell to the ground, as more and more of those green things emerged from his throat and his mouth, and then, to my growing horror, his eyes. I looked around the tent and saw the same thing happen to everyone else there. Green insects forcing their way out of their bodies, and when they couldn’t get out they made there on way out. Soon every tent was covered in them. Covered in small praying mantis. And they started to feed on everyone they landed on. They even started coming for me, some landed on my bare arms and started biting. I brushed them off and I heard crunching every step I took. I ran to my car and looked for Hannah I started screaming her name, I called her phone. No answer. I didn’t wait around. I ran as fast as I could to my car, to chase the cloud. I didn’t know what I thought I would do, having gotten such a late start trying to catch it, but I finally saw where it started to dissipate. I pulled my car up in my driveway as I saw the last hints of the cloud vanishing into the woods behind my house. Weeks later, when the police sent me video someone had on their phone, catching Hannah pulling something from her shoebox and dropping it into a pot of chili in the cook-off, I can now say I was not surprised. I also wasn’t surprised when a noted entomologist stated that these things weren’t pure mantises, because mantis nymphs can’t fly.

Chapter 4I can also say they’ll never catch Hannah. Because what I found in those woods, I haven’t revealed to anyone, until now.In the woods, I saw flying mantises thankfully they ignored me. I saw things carved in the trees, they were like hieroglyphic language. When I saw the words I could make out some of the writing. It had phrases like, He who Prays written all over. There were other phrases like, coming of age, and Return. And then I saw a trail leading into the woods.I followed discarded clothing. I picked them up. It was the clothes Hannah had been wearing that day.They led to a large, brown, shape, attached to a tree. It looked like a sleeping bag, but larger, with a large hole in the middle, like it had split on the inside. Something ichorous dripped from it.But there was something else inside. Something brittle. I pulled it out.A skin. A shed skin, like a snake. But not a snake.A human skin.Hannah.But there was more.I followed a trail of strange footprints to another small clearing. And that was when I went to go get a lighter and some gasoline, to destroy everything in those unholy abominations of those clearings.In that clearing was the largest set of wings I had ever seen. Along with several pairs of unnaturally large insect legs. They all looked like they had been chewed.

The end

Siena Lo Piccolo ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: When bad things happen

After mrs. Peterson died Mya, Aaron. Aaron my best friend and mya had disappeared. And that hole in Aaron’s bedroom window is still there with glass shattered everywhere.what was happening to raven brooks. Mya ran away into the woods. At the old Golden apple amusement park were Lucy had died. Myas best friend. Mr.peterson had gone Crazy.and I don’t think that anyone could fix it. I always knew that there was something in mr. peterson's basement because he was always keeping it like it was a secret. But I could even see it. And there was something in there. I’m pretty sure that’s always were the weird scream came from. Now I think it was just my turn to find out what’s down there.

CHAPTER 1I could not believe that the street light went out on me at 1:00 in the

morning, I held the note in my hand and squeezed it. I still could not believe this is what Aaron had wrote. With blood, I had wondered it had came from. It was not wet but dry. I could feel it even if I was in the dark were I was. I started to walk around and make sure I would not run into a pole or anything like that. But then I heard a sudden meow. I thought it was just one of those random cats that just walk around. But then I felt it walk past me like I was a scratching post, then it meowed again, but much louder. I felt as if it was trying to take me somewhere. I placed my hand down very gently on its back, as if I was trying to pet a soft pillow, the cat started purring, I could tell that it liked me. “Hmm.” I said to the cat as if it could understand me. “What should I name you.” It meowed. It was a boy, “ahhh.” I said. After that I followed the cat and it brought me to a place with light. Now I could see that this cat was very big, and furry, I had never had a pet and I didn’t know much about them, but I knew that this cat was a Maine coon, because it had a fluffy neck and it’s big body. It was a light brown and had very big blue eyes. Then the cat started walking again, so I followed. “Wait…No…” it was my house! The cat had brought me all this way to bring me safe and sound back to my house. I looked at it. And then looked at the cat. “Wanna come in?” I said in the way that I knew he could understand me. He purred and rubbed against my leg one more time and then meowed. “Shhh…my parents are sleeping, let’s go in.” For some reason as I was walking into the house with the cat following me, Cody had much reminded me of Aaron but I don’t know why. When I walked up the steps before I got into my room, I noticed my parents room door was shut. And it was always open. So I went to check. “Stay here.” I told the cat. “Meow.” I heard back. When I opened the door very slowly I heard a loud creek from the door, that I certainly thought would wake my parents when I looked in I did not see my parents.”we’re are my parents?”

I looked around the room and then shut the door, but before it was fully shut the has slipped through the little. I thought i was gonna cry. We’re were my parents. Before i reached the end of the steps i heard a scream. It was not loud but it was not quiet. It sounded like a girl. Could it be mya? I thought to myself, i had no idea about what happened to the peterson’s mrs.peterson had died. Mr.peterson had gone crazy. But how about Aaron and mya there to two kids Aaron my best friend, my only friend i walked slowly into my room. I slipped my

pjs on. Got into bed, and dreamed. I woke up in the middle of the night because cody had fell asleep right between my legs and i was sweating so badly. I turned on my bed room light and looked at the cat he yawned and stretched but then i looked at my alarm clock. I had only slept for 4 hours. I need more sleep but i could not fall back asleep i was thinking about the dream i just had, i was walking into a ride at an amusement park, and then in the corner i saw mr.peterson crying. When i stepped onto the ride mr. peterson grabbed me and then i woke up. After that i ended up falling asleep again. And i woke up at 9:30. I felt good that i at least got some sleep. When i got up it looked like beautiful day out. Cody even thought so too. He was sitting on my window seal looking outside. Then cody looked at me and then gave me what i thought was a smile. I had remembered the first time i moved to raven brooks and about that cat who left a scratch on my arm it was still there. But that cat looked nothing like this cat. Then i got up got all my things ready to go and find out what's going on in raven brooks because all the people seem so quiet like they are keeping a big secret. As i walked down stairs i heard a man and a women talking it sounded like my parents. “Mom, dad…” “Hey narf.” dad said. “Hi Nicky.” mom said. “Good morning. I said. I was so confused….was i dreaming last night i mean cody is still here. “Meow.” cody said. “Nicky…” both of my parents said.” I know i know….” “he is so cute” my mom said. “What?” my parents hated the fact of me ever getting a pet.”what its name?” Hmmmmmm. I said “cody.” i said in reply. “Hey mom,dad i need to ask you a question.” “go ahead Narf.” my dad said back. “We’re were you…” “Oh look its 10:00” my mom said interrupting me..”Mom..” “let me talk where were you guys last night?” “Narf.” my dad said. “Tell me.” my mom just kept making the pancakes on the stove acting like me did not know anything i was saying but i could tell she was listening to me out of the left ear. For some reason my mom was wearing a bright pink dress and her hair was curled she looked very nice but why? My dad was wearing shorts and a very nice white shirt. And me...Well I was still in my pjs. “where are you going Narf?” My dad said in the way he knew something was up. ”Oh me?” I was just going around to adventure raven brooks.” “Don’t get yourself into any trouble young man.” “And don’t you dare bother mr.peterson.” “Me?? Bother mr.peterson.” the crazy man that I saw in my dream crying. And then the man who I saw squeezing his face at his wife’s funeral. Then after his face was red. Just liked it was burned, it sizzled. I ran back upstairs as I was I heard mom say “you want some tuna Cody?” Then I changed into a clean shirt and my nice new pants and then I grabbed my bag ready to go. Before I left I sat on the stairs and started practicing my key locks. I got the first two done but third would not budge. Then mom called. “Nicky aren’t you hungry I made pancakes.” “I guess I will have one.” I said not very hungry. As I sat down at the table I saw Cody eating tuna out of moms new bowls I thought that was a little strange because she always said she never wanted theses bowls to be used in non-Properways. As soon as mom handed me the pancake I noticed it was rainbow colored. Mom also always told me that food coloring is bad for you. But I still ate it anyway. And then said “thanks.” Then I asked mom about the dye. “Mom.” “Yes Honey.” “I thought you said that food coloring was not good.” “We’ll just for today your fine.” Then I stared at my dad. He looked mystrable. And I

wondered why. Then my dad said Ho Ho’s and that was the treat that meant he was exhausted. And I could tell.

So then I got up and actually got him Ho Ho’s.

CHAPTER 2As I shut the door behind me Cody meowed, and I knew he was not happy I was leaving without him, but I did not want anything to happen to him. So I pet him gently, hugged him and said. “Be a good boy.” Then I took off. I brought some cash with me so I could buy some food. First I wanted to take a look around the Peterson’s house they lived right across from me so when I looked straight I saw there house. The first move I had made was when I was walking to there front door. But then I turned around and ran back to my house because I could see mr.peterson right In front of the basement door. And I knew that he knew someone was watching him. Then I slowly ran to the back of the big weird looking house. Looks like mr. peterson had changed his house up a little bit. II grabbed a rock and threw it at the window The window shattered and made a loud glass sound. I was afraid that I would get caught so I quickly ran through the broken glass window and hid in a closet. I looked through the little crack in the closet door and then saw a key. It was in a box right in front of me. I slowly opened the closet door and grabbed the key it was a neon blue. It said Basement door key 1. It was like the house wanted me to go in the basement, then as I slowly walked around the corner past the living room I heard the tv, but mr. peterson was not in there, “phew.” I said. I saw another key and this time it was red. But glowed, and was a little bit larger than the other, it said, Basement door key 2. “Again?” I said to myself. I heard footsteps right behind me….I ran as

Kelly McErleanApril 3,2019ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: The Hunger Games: If there was no Rebellion

Prologue“Prim!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. “Where are you? Prim!” I heard the canon, as I turned around, I saw her on the jungle floor. Dead.

Chapter 1I woke up in the bed by myself. Prim slept with my mother last night. No surprise, today’s the Reaping. We all know that Prim has no chance of going to the Games, but nonetheless she’s scared. When I went hunting on the walk, my friend Gale met up with me. We supply our families

with food in order to survive. When we get there Gale talked about the Capitol, he always does. “Wouldn’t it be great to run away, away from the Capitol, the Games, and the society?” “Prim in the woods? Please.” I replied snooty. “Think about it, no more risking our lives for others entertainment, no more President Snow.” He said.When I get home Prim is already to go to the town square.“Mom laid out your outfit on the bed.” She sounded like she was crying. “Hey, you have no chance of going. Me and Gale, our names are in 20 or 42 times. You’ll be ok, I promise.” I said to calm her down. As I got ready I knew, that if Prim was called I’d volunteer in a heartbeat.

Chapter 2As we were getting check in for the Reaping, the District 12 escort, Effie Trinket, showed a video that “came all the way from the Capitol.” “Now for the tributes, ladies first. Our District 12 female tribute is…Primrose Everdeen.” Everyone objected this. The people hate when a 12 year old is reaped. She started walking to the stage slowly. I run out of line screaming,”I volunteer, I volunteer as tribute!” “It looks like we have a volunteer everyone.” Effie said. Gale had to pry Pirm off of me so I could climb the stage. “Now for the boys. Our District 12 male tribute is…Peeta Mellark.” No volunteers. We were immediately taken to our goodbye rooms. My mother,Prim, and Gale came. As he was pulled away, I said “Don’t let them starve please.” “Never in a million years would I let them starve.” He promised.

Chapter 3My prep and training went by in a blur. Even Haymitch our mentor was sober enough to give us advice. Haymitch even found a way for the star-crossed lovers from 12 to work out. It has been a week since I’ve been in the Capitol. Now for the Games. Cinna, my stylist, said goodbye as I prepared for launch. So soon I would be in an arena with 23 tributes who want to kill me in a minute. As we rise to our platforms I hear Claudeth Templesmith say,“Let the 74 annual Hunger Games being.” 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BONG! The gong went off. I ran toward the Cornucopia like my life depended on it. I knew I would have to fight people for the simple things, but not a backpack. Suddenly blood came flying at me. Clove the girl from 2 killed the boy from 5. I ran from her soon after because I could see the attempt to kill me in her eyes. When I got into the woods I climbed a tree as fast as I could. I can only hope to make it out of here alive. The thoughts of my thirst distract me for a long time. I had a restless night, finally into the second day I was certain that I would die. Then I saw it, a glorious pond filled with water. Oh, how I longed this. That night as I settled in my tree, a fire took place. Not a normal fire, the kind that is artificial. The gamemaker version. I leaped to my feet as soon as possible. Balls of fire were thrown at me. I ducked left and right. Then one large one hit my leg.

Chapter 4The next things happened so fast I cannot recall them. My leg was in so much pain. Luckily, Haymitch was alert enough to acknowledge this. I heard the soft ding,ding,ding of the parachute. A ointment was inside a metal container. It soothed my leg instantly. That’s when I heard a noise, it was the little girl from district 11. She pointed to something in my tree. I froze as I realized that it was a tracker jacker nest. Then she pointed to below me. the Career pack was down there. I got the message and started to cut the branch that held the nest on it. As I was cutting the tracker jackers noticed me. I was stung three times. The nest buzzed as it collapsed. Careers started screaming. Soon there was the boom of the canon as I’ve heard it multiple times today and yesterday. This one signified Glimmer’s death. At last my bow and arrows came to me. I wanted to thank Rue, but she had already left.

Chapter 5Then I started to hallucinate. Tracker jackers. When I wake up, I see Rue. She filled me in on what happened. After that I asked her, “Do you want to be my ally?” We both know that eventually we would have to split up. Alliances in these games don’t last forever. We were talking and decided to blow up the career’s food supply. The people are probably bloodthirsty by now. Then we realized we’re in the final eight. Our families and friends are getting interviewed now. District 12 hasn’t had a chance like this since Haymitch won 24 years ago. I think about how close I am to getting out of here. I will get to see Gale, my mother, and Prim. Oh how I miss Prim. It’s the next day, me and Rue are ready to blow up the food. No food means the careers have to hunt, careers hunting means a battle. Snow is practically giving us instructions. A while later I’m finished with my part and I wonder about Rue. Then I hear a bloodcurdling scream.

“KATNISS!” I run to her. To save her. Too bad District 1 is already there. I shoot him instantly. Boom goes the canon. I look at Rue, there is no way she will survive this. “Sing to me.” She said. I’ve only ever sung to Prim, but I see Prim in Rue. I start singing the Meadow song. I stop when her eyes glaze over. I cry and cry while I cover her in flowers. When I leave the hovercraft picks up the bodies.

Chapter 6“There have been some minor adjustments to the rules”, Claudeth Templesmith says, “both tributes from the same district can be crowned victor.” This is a huge change in the rules. That doesn’t stop me from calling to Peeta. When I didn’t hear him call back, I got worried. While I walked back to my tree, someone said, “don’t step on me.” Peeta. “Peeta where are you?”I shout. “Under your foot.” He says. It takes a while to coax him out of hiding. Then I see it, the gash Cato’s knife left in his leg. You can see right down to the bone. After, I drag him into the water and clean him. I see that it is worse that I thought. We find a cave because trees are no longer a option. But this provides space and we’re concealed from the outside. Finally after we settled in Caesar Flickerman shows up with the announcement of a feast. Yep bloodbath. “The bag with your district's number on it contains something you need” He pauses, “desperately.” Peeta’s medicine comes to mind. We argue for a longer part of 4 hours. Finally I “give up”. I go out to hunt for dinner,ding, ding, ding. There is a note from Haymitch, Go get that medicine Katniss- Gale. Gale, sent the note, Haymitch got the sleep syrup. “Oh, Gale I’ll try my hardest.” I say into the night. I rise at four and prep my pack in case I don’t make it back in time.

Chapter 7The cornucopia isn’t far from the cave, so I get there in five minutes. I wait until Foxface from 5 gets her bag before I get mine. When I get there so does Clove. We fought for a good ten minutes. “You are pathetic. Crying over a death in these Games? How is Rue, good as gone?” Then all of a sudden she is lifted by human force. It was Thresh. He killed her by hitting her head against the cornucopia but, let me go. “Only this time 12,” he pause. Tears glistened in his eyes, “for Rue.” He left. I took my chance to run. When I get back to the cave, Peeta is up. “You went to the feast, didn’t you.” He said matter-of-factly. It was no use to lie to him. “Yes, but look,” I held out the medicine,” here let’s put it on your leg.” That night we had a great dinner, so good it knocked us out for three days. We woke up and immediately I checked Peeta’s leg, it was so much better. That is when I heard the scream. Before I knew it, we were up and running. They’re pushing a fight, I think. The mutilating screaming came from Cato. The mutts looked like the dead tributes. Glimmer, Clove, and the smallest one, Rue. They wouldn’t go away, then I saw Thresh in the sky. I didn’t know the anthem started. I didn’t know he was dead.

Chapter 8The fight lasted for hours. But finally, Cato dropped from the cornucopia. Dying a slow painfully loud death. I finish him off with an arrow in the throat. Suddenly the mutts disappear and night turns to day. “Ladies and gentlemen, District 12 tributes, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, are the victors of the 74 Hunger Games” Claudeth Templesmith boomed. All I can think about now is going home to Prim, and Rue.

Chapter 9As the hovercraft lifted us up, I held on to Peeta because his life really did depend on it. When I woke up, I saw surgeons and nurses pass by me. When I look at my arm, I see no scars, not even the ones that where there for years. When Peeta comes by, I run to him, only to hit a glass door. The next time I wake up, I’m in the training center, with Effie hanging over my head. “Today is a big, big, day.” She reminds me. I long to see Peeta. Haymitch said “You’ll see him at the ceremony, sweetheart.” My prep team talks about the Games from the screen. When Cinna comes in I get up and start to cry. Tears, sobbing tears. I wear a girly dress that I hate. When I see the size of the dress, I frown, I’m to small for it. I think. As I get used to the stage lights I see him. Running at full speed to get to him, like he was gone for so long. Rewatching the Games is awful. Seeing all the others dying for a second time.

Epilogue

When the train arrives in 12, all I see is Prim, Gale, and my mother. All crying happiness. I safely returned home. A couple months until I see Cinna again, but now, the most important things to take care of is, my family.

Cierra McGeeELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: the artist

Hey I’m Georgia and this is the story of when I became famous. (Kinda). As I said I’m Georgia and my best friend Justin and I are both deaf! I have hearing aids and justin does not,I have always been that girl that sits by her locker with a ugly dress , high ponytail, and black crocs, eating at lunch, nobody but Justin wanted to hang out with me, Justin and I have been best friends since 5th grade when we were partners in art class (now I’m in 9th grade). Every day at lunch Justin buys me a burger and fries, sometimes pancakes, and we just sit eat and do art. We have been working on a painting for 3 days now, it is of me and Justin in the woods signing, no hearing people, just us! Justin and I didn’t always know how to communicate, he is not comfortable with talking most deaf people are not, but I am, I used to only read lips, but Justin and his mom taught me and my mother how to sign, it was not easy at first but now it is. I was signing to my mom one day, “hey mom” I signed, “yes sweetness” she signed back , “ I was wondering if I could get a Instagram account, just to post my artwork?” I signed to my mom, “oh honey, I love the idea but no, there could be stalkers on there, people might not be nice!” She signed to me, “It’s just ARTWORK!” I signed back to her, “I get it , but I don’t want you on that app!” She signed , “FINE” I signed while stomping up to my room.

(3 hours later) I was on skype with Justin, “ I think you should get Instagram, I mean it’s only your artwork what’s the big deal, there is no stalkers I promise” Justin signed, “I should? I am” I signed back.

NEXT MORNING: I got my account and I named it @undercoverartist I already posted 3 paintings, one of a dog sitting by a pond in the sun rise, one of a pink sunflower, and one of a boy sitting in the rain. I posted them about 2 hours ago and the one with the dog and of the flower already have over 300 likes! And I have 1,543 followers! “Am I famous?” I asked myself , “or do people just like my artwork” , “but all the popular girls in school dmed me and asked me if it was me! They know, they want to meet with me at lunch! Should I go? I’m going”

MONDAY~ I dressed in my best cloths today, I was going to sit with, Kylie the most popular girl in school, I want her to like me but I’m deaf, reading lips is not the easiest but I’ll try, (4 hours later , lunch) as I made my way to the popular table I was pulling my skirt down, “is it to short?” I thought to myself “yeah it is , I’ll never wear this again.” I walked right over to the table and sat down I said “you wanted to see me?” “O- h ye-ah I wa-nted to ta-lk ab-out your art” Kylie said really slow kinda to slow, “okay, you don’t need to talk like that, I can read lips I just can’t hear you, I can’t even hear myself” I said with a giggle, “alright then, I wanted to say, I found your Instagram! I love your art work it’s super cute!” Kylie said in a good but fast speed, “oh thanks! Also how did you know it was me?” I said back , “ ohh I saw you painting the dog in the hall last week , so when I saw the picture, I knew it was yours” she said, “ok thanks” I Said in a confused voice, “okay let’s just get to it, I want you to sit with me for the rest of this week!” She said while sorta signing but not right, “ uh thanks but I sit with Justin, I want to sit with him he is my best friend” I said “ha but he can’t talk why would you want to sit with him” she said to me while laughing. “Excuse me?” I said , “he ca-nt talk” she said slow again assuming I couldn’t understand. “Um sorry bye I’m going back to Justin” I said , “wait how do you say bye in sign language?” She screamed across the lunch room, loud enough for my hearing aids to pick it up! “Like this” I said while showing her how to say “I’m mean”

MONDAY NIGHT: I told justin about what happened at lunch… he was not happy with me, he had wished he went with me, he frfeels like he should have been there to protect me but I don’t need protection! I’m not 5 years old anymore I’m 15!

FRIDAY: It was a normal 3 days of school nothing really happened! I mean I got 4 million followers in 5 days! I didn’t think that was possible, but turns out nothing is impossible. I posted 3 more paintings, one of a empty cafe! One of me, and one of a fire truck. They all have 100+ likes already.

SCHOOL: when I walked in I saw Kylie, I could see from the corner of my eye she was running over to me, I acted like I didn’t see her. “Georgia?” She said, “GEORGIA” she screamed everyone could hear her! “Yes Kylie?” I said back, “hi, what are you doing today, do you want to hang out?” She said while standing right in front of my face to make sure I could see what she said, “uh, I’ll pas, I am going to paint all afternoon and I’m eating lunch with Justin today!” I said In a soft voice I think, “oh, well if you don’t hang out with me some time then I’ll tell Justin you like him!” Kylie said like smiling, “what no I don’t, isn’t that blackmailing? That’s not nice at all” I said while nervous.(i think)

Saturday: I said goodbye to my 4million fans and said hello to my real life, I didn’t like the fame and I didn’t want my face on the internet

Name:Ameilya Myrie Date:4/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Bad scene

Swwwwoooohhh, it was a gloomy day outside. Natalie,Jayden,Kieran,and Jenny, went on a trip to Paris . It was Jayden’s birthday, it was February 2. Natalie’s car is not the best which is really bad because her driving sucks. While she drives she is always swerving.

Natalie was a horrific driver she got into 5 car crash and still has the same raggedy car. Natalie got a blueberry smoothie and didn’t even realize and is allergic to blueberries. Jenny got a fruit salad with the blueberries. While they were in the car Natalie’s face felt numb. She looked in her mirror and her face was swollen,red, and huge. Natalie was freaking out going MAD. She was swerving the car all over the road she went into the side of the woods and BOOOM. There were branches, leaves, and pine cones all over the car. Jayden was so so scared that he passed out.

On the other hand, Jenny was perfectly fine she was eating her fruit salad like everything was fine. Everyone was panicking, Jayden was done, Kieran was flipping out Natalie was crying. They all stopped they heard trembling in a brush and slithering. They saw, they saw a rabbit. Then a snake jumped out of nowhere ended up on the car window. Jayden finally woke up look to the right and saw a the snake then passed out again. “Why won’t we just get out the car already” when Jayden finally woke up from his his 15 minute pass out. They got out the car, Jenny saw something black in the fog.

Jayden yelled “hey umm can you help use” “now why would you tell that thing to come over here now we probably gonna die” says Kieran. The mysterious thing started to walk forward, every time it moved forward they all moved back. The shadowed creature started to run. “Guys I think we should run,run run,RUNNNN”. The mystery thing caught up to Jayden, it hit him in the head with a bat. Then… “AAAAAHHHHHHH” jayden fell to the floor with blood coming from his head. The thing was still running after Natalie,Kieran and Jenny.

When he caught up to them he was about to hit Kieran in his head. But soon enough Jayden came and jumped on its back. Then Jenny swing around and hit .Natalie in the face she started to cry. “Cut, cut, Natalie you need to cry harder this is the best scene and you better not mess up this scene” barked the director. He went up to Natalie and slapped her right in the face , then Natalie punched him in his face and kicked him in his leg.“You are so fired” said the director sobbing in tears.

Abigail Nadolny4/3ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Darkwater’s Loyalty Chapter 1 _______________________________________________

I crept along the leaf-littered ground, slithering like a snake to avoid the bramble bushes. There it is! A large, plump squirrel was digging into the ground near the roots of a large tree. I sure hope it won’t notice me, cause there’s no way I’m climbing that tree! I continued to creep closer, until I was at the perfect distance to pounce. Crouching as low as possible, I wiggled my hindquarters, bunched up my muscles, then…..

BARK BARK BARK! The squirrel whipped around to face me, then tried to scurry up the tree. Luckily, I managed to leap far enough to catch it while it was still at the base.

“Darkpaw!” I looked up at my mentor, Frostflower, who was hiding up in another nearby tree. “We should probably head back to camp. If there’s dogs around, we don’t need them picking up our scent and thundering through the forest to find us.” She said, and I didn’t disagree. We set off back to camp, unburying the rest of our prey along the way.

“Hey Darkpaw! You’re back!” mewed a familiar voice. “Hi Stormpaw. Is Silverpaw back yet?” I asked, looking around. The two siblings, Silverpaw and Stormpaw, had just recently been apprenticed, two moons ago. “Yeah, he’s just over in the medicine den. Stepped on a thorn. You’d think he’d learn to be more careful after the whole fox incident.” Stormpaw replied. I laughed a bit on my way to the medicine den.

There, Cloudshine was coating Silverpaw’s paw in a green mush looking substance. “Hey Silverpaw. Stormpaw said you’d stepped on a thorn.” “Yup. I was only trying to hunt this really juicy looking mouse, but then, as I was stalking it, I stepped on a thorn! It really hurt.” “Poor Silverpaw. I just wish you’d be more careful.” I said, a hint of worry in my voice. “I can take care of myself, you know. I mean, who are you? Stormpaw?” “Well, sooooorryyyy.” I said sarcastically, but his reply had hurt a bit. I only want you to be safe.

“Dogs! There are dogs at the WindClan border!” Amberpaw’s voice rang out through the clearing. I ran out of the medicine den, and stopped by my mentor.

“Are they inside our border?” asked Berrystar. “Yes! The rest of the patrol is helping to fight them off!” “Alright then,” said Berrystar, “Frostflower, Mousetail, Sunshadow, and Ivyleaf, Come with me to the border. The rest stay and defend the camp in case the dogs get here.”

“Can Ivyleaf and I bring our apprentices?” Frostflower asked. I held my breath. “Yes, just make sure they stay near you.” My heart leapt. Yes! My first fight with a dog! The patrol raced out to the border, and Silverpaw and I ran side by side. As we neared the border, the barking of dogs grew louder and louder. Then, I crashed through some bushes, and saw three, huge, monstrous dogs, snapping their jaws around the body of…….Oh no! Nightrain!

I raced forward and slashed the muzzle of the nearest dog, then whipped my head around to bite its leg. However, my teeth only sunk into air as one of the other dogs picked me up and swung me around like some kind of toy. Pain pulsed through my entire body, and I could barely move to defend myself. I could hear the screaming, hissing, and yowling of my clanmates as they fought the dogs. The last thing I heard was Silverpaw screaming “Darkpaw!!!”

Chapter 2 _______________________________________________

I opened my eyes to see my mother, Nightrain, curled around my body. I tried to move, wincing as pain shot through me. “Shhh….be still, my brave little warrior. You need rest.” “What….happened..?” I asked, confused. “You tried to save me remember?” Then it all flooded back. “Am I….am I gonna be ok?” “As long as

you rest.” I closed my eyes once more, and this time when I opened them, I saw the glittery coat of a Starclan cat.

“Who….who are you?” I asked, shaking. “I...I’m not dead...am I?” “No no, little one. You are still alive. I am Snowflame.” Her reply was gentle and soothing. “Do...do you know what happened to me?” “When you fought the dogs, you almost died. Luckily, you were saved. However...I’m afraid you’ve been badly scarred.” “W-what do you m-mean….?” I stammered. “Take a look.” I was led over to a pond. My face!

The left side of my face looked to be ripped off, my left ear and eye gone, with scars and tufts of fur missing all along my body. How did this happen?

It was time for the gathering. “Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase can I go?” I begged. “Are you sure you want to, with what….you look like?” Berrystar asked, and his hesitance stung. “Yes! I want to go see Lilypaw!” “Alright then.” Yes! I had recently heard that there’d been a battle between Mistclan and Branclan. I bounded over to join the rest of the clan as we started walking down to the Hollow. I watched as Berrystar leaped up into the Great Elm and took his place with the other leaders. Lilypaw walked over me, and told me alllll about the battle with Branchclan. Chamomilepaw joined us, and told us how her sister, Frecklepaw, had died in it.

Suddenly, Adderstar started the gathering with a yowl, and everyone went quiet. “Mistclan has two new apprentices, Lilypaw and Applepaw.” All but Branchclan chanted the names. I looked over at the pair and noticed Lilypaw move closer to Applepaw, and the two exchanged a few brief words. Cloverstar, the Branchclan leader, started to give her news “ We have lost Railfur, our beloved deputy, and Willowfern will be taking his place. We also have three new apprentices, Violetpaw, Rosepaw, and Daisypaw. There is also a new warrior among us, Rainfur!” The Branchclan cats echoed the names, but the others did not. Instead they gave Branchclan hostile glares. As Berrystar, the Snowclan leader, stepped up to give his report, Darkpaw listened intently.

“Snowclan has two new apprentices, Stormpaw and Silverpaw!” I cheered the loudest of all. “Crazy Darkpaw.” I heard Lilypaw say. “Maybe he’s sick.” “I am NOT sick!” I said. Berrystar went on, “One of our elders, Fallowfern, just recently passed away.” “Mistclan will mourn for Fallowfern as well.” Adderstar told the Snowclan leader. “Thank you, Adderstar. Now for some good news. Applefern has just kitted.” Everyone turned to congratulate Dustcloud, the proud father. “Other than that, we are all good in Snowclan. Prey is running, and we are full of new life.” Berrystar nodded at Snakestar and she started her report.

“Prey is plentiful in Bushclan and we have new life in the clan. Petalnose has five new kits, Redkit, Orangekit, Yellowkit, Greenkit, and Bluekit. Adderfur is the proud father.” Mistclan and Snowclan congratulated the new father, who was tall with pride, while Branchclan stood stiffly and gave him hostile glares. Suddenly, Fuzzyfur of Branchclan launched herself at Adderfur and a fight broke out between them. “THIS IS A GATHERING!” Boomed Ashstar, “STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY!” The scuffle broke up, but Adderfur had a scratch across his face, and Fuzzyfur had a bite on her leg. “I’ll see that my warrior is punished for this.” Cloverstar said sternly while Fuzzyfur had her head down in shame. “Other than that,” Snakestar began again, “Our elder Longleg died.” “We will mourn for him.” Ashstar said solemnly and said, “The gathering is over.”

I noticed Lilypaw talking with two Branchclan cats, Leaftail and Boulderfur. I started to approach, but she walked away to join Ashstar. I followed her. “....i’d pay for killing Railfur.” She said she just as I walked up. “Don’t worry. I won’t let anyone hurt you.”

“Why do you care? You’re not from my clan.” Lilypaw tried to walk away, but I followed her. “Cause you’re my friend, Lilypaw.” “I don’t even know you. For all I know, you’re crazy!” Just then, Silverpaw came. “Rude! Don’t call him crazy just cause he only has half a face! C’mon Darkpaw.” Silverpaw led me away. “It’s ok, Darkpaw. You’re still ok in my eyes.”

I walked out of the apprentice den, ignoring the stares. It had been five moons, and I was about to go out for my warrior assessment. “Alright, so we’ll have Amberpaw with Darkpaw, and Stormpaw with Silverpaw.” Ivytail said. A look of despair washed over my face. Great. I get to be stuck with Amberpaw.“Sunshadow and I will monitor Darkpaw and Amberpaw. Leafstorm can go with you.” Frostflower said, already heading off into the forest with Sunshadow. Ivytail and Leafstorm soon followed her, and so we followed them.

“Okay, soooo, where do you want to hunt?” I asked Amberpaw. “The lake!” Amberpaw squealed. Great. This is why I didn’t want her! “Yeah no thanks. How about we go to Owl Tree instead?” “Yeah, Owl Tree! I like it there!” I raced off, and Amberpaw followed right behind me. As soon as we made it to Owl Tree, I found a mouse, hiding in a bush. “Ok, you go on the other side of the bush and scare the mouse, so it goes towards me.” I told Amberpaw. “Okay-Dokay!” “Be quiet Amberpaw!” “Sorry….” Amberpaw slowly made her way towards the other side of the bush, setting her paws down as lightly as possible, till……

CRACK! Amberpaw had stepped on a twig. The mouse whipped its head up, then raced off to the left. Luckily, I was fast enough to catch it. “Amberpaw! You should’ve been more careful. However, I will say, you did well setting your paws down lightly.” “Thanks!” Then, I spotted something.

A hawk?! The hawk was just sitting up there, in the tree. “Okay Amberpaw, I’m going to climb up the tree, and knock the hawk off the branch, then jump on its back when it tries to fly. You wait here at the bottom and be ready to attack when it comes close enough.” “Got it!” I slowly made my way up, till I was on the branch right behind the hawk. I crouched, then launched myself right into it, pushing it off, but still managing to stay on to the branch. As soon as the hawk spread its wings to fly, I dropped down and landed on it. Amberpaw leapt up and slashed one wing, then the other, and helped drag it down while I dodged its snapping beak. After some time, we manage to kill it.

“Good job you two.” said a voice behind us. It was Frostflower. “I never thought there’d be a hawk here, but you two skillfully brought it down. I think we have enough to make our decision.” She said, looking over at Sunshadow, who nodded. “Let’s go back to camp, then.” And that’s what we did. I deposited the prey onto the prey pile, and took two mice, giving one to Amberpaw. Soon after, Silverpaw and Frostpaw came back with Ivytail and Leafstorm. The two mentors disappeared into Berrystar’s den, with Sunshadow and Frostflower following.

Chapter 4 _______________________________________________

“...I name you Darkwater. I hope you serve your clan well.” I had just received my warrior name, along with Ambernose Stormstripe, and Silverheart. Yay! I’m so happy! I’ve waited so long for this moment! “Come eat over with us, Darkwater!” I looked over and saw the other three new warriors eating together and sharing tongues.

David DateELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: The Mysterious Baker

Chapter 1I’m Danny. My life is kind of mysterious but also a bit interesting. Some of the stuff that happens I can’t really believe. I dream so much that sometimes things that are in my dream, I can’t tell it is if real or not. One of my very weird stories in my life was about this suspicious Baker. There I was. Sitting in the middle of my bed. At 3:00 am. There is nobody else living in my apartment. It is scary. Eventually I fall back asleep, and wake up at 8:00 am. The newspaper boy wakes me up yelling about some dumb news. “New bakery grand opening today at 10:00 am!” Boo hoo, I thought. What’s so great about some dumb bakery? I can just go into the kitchen and make a bagel. That is what I do. I put my bagel into the toaster, but it doesn’t heat up. “Man! The toaster isn’t working. So I go outside for a walk, missing my breakfast. It was a 55 degrees day, and the wind was a bit strong. A pink flyer hits my face. “Come for the Grand Opening Now! On Baker rd. 43. I see a bus load of people enter into a pink building. What the heck, let me just TRY it.

Chapter 2So, I tried the bakery, but one thing about it irked me. One the food was a bit dry, and it had a suspicious taste. Now myself, I’m a self taught Baker. The man who worked their seemed very suspicious also. He was always nice, but in a weird way. He always would pronounce a food wrong, then quickly corrected himself, then smiled. So here is what I did- “Hello.. um.. mister may I come in? I am a professional Baker. “Wh-y Su-re!” He Said. I went in, and nothing seemed suspicious at all. I saw a room that said “staff only” with a skeleton head. I

was curious. “What is in here?” I asked. He ran to the door and stopped me from opening it. “do not enter there!” He cried. I was wondering why there was a skeleton head. So I asked. He said, “oh um.. the place that used to be here was a haunted house so… we forgot to um.. replace it!” There was never a haunted house here! All lies. Somethings up. “Anyway, um thanks.” I said. “Okay bye” he said. But as I walked out he said one more thing. “never look back.” I froze. Then walked away. Then ran.

Chapter 3I’m super suspicious about this Baker. I need to get word out that he has something in his food. It is 2:30 pm. I need to make a plan to get into there. I start looking In the couches and under my bed for a tool than can go

through a key slot. I found a nail, so that’s first on my list. I need a disguise also. Some kind of black jumpsuit. As I was getting ready, it was already 7:00 pm. I went downstairs and made some soup before I went to “bed”. I say “bed” like that because I’m setting my alarm to 3:00 AM, so I can go and break into, you know where. In my sleep I fall into. It was hard to fall asleep, because I’ve never done this before. I’m just a 20 year old boy, living in an apartment who watches aTV all day. Is this a ream mission? Before I know it, my alarm went off! I

go into my jumpsuit and bust out. There are about no cars. Although one is parked out of the bakery. The lights are off, so how can anyone be in it? I open the door, walk into the kitchen, and into the warning room,

nand before I can describe it, I hear a voice. “Hello!” It had a tinge sound of evil when he said that.

Chapter 4The baker, who seemed like such an innocent guy, was holding a chainsaw, as he grabs my neck toward it. Before he can give me a cut, I kick him right into the wall. He falls on a box, full of toxic wasg/te. “I knew the

food was dangerous.!” I blurted. As I was done saying that, he grabbed something sharp from his back, a knife. He hit me once, which caused blood I ran as fast as I could to find an item to attack back. He was right behind me. He yelled “never look

back.” As I turned back, he started to run at me. Faster and faster he ran, I woke...up. I woke up? So this was all a dream. I guess I imagined the alarm in my dream. This morning the toaster started working, so I made a quick bagel. I didn’t even bother going over to the Bakery. I went into the living room and turned on the TV, and turned it to the news. The news reporter was giving the Baker a interview. Here is a brief conversation

they are havingNews reporter: Mr, please give us your recipe on your, delicious!, Amazing! Pastries!Baker: one ingredient, love! ha haNews reporter: what inspired you to make this bakery? And do you recruit?Baker: well I am starting to recruit, but I am also—

I shut off the TV, grab my coat and run down to the bakery. As I see the news van packing up, I run into the bakery, I scream “This bakery is evil!” He puts all sorts of stuff in his food!”. Everyone looked at me like I was

crazy. They just went back to their food. There was gotta be someway to get The Whole town to see how suspicious this man was. First I would need to to some investigating. And I would have to get a job.

Chapter 5I went back home, and plopped onto the couch. I did some research on the bakery. Turns out the man made

his own website. It said he was recruiting and if we wanted the part, we needed to fill in a survey. The questions were a bit easy, like your age, what you can do in the bakery, and done. I already got out of bed, so I’m just going to wait for tomorrow. As soon as it was 9:34 PM, I started to doze off. Until I heard knocking at

my door. Which is really odd because nobody ever comes to my apartment. So I went down to answer it. I was walking down slowly. I opened the door and it was the baker! “Well hello Danny!” I think (how does he know

my name?). “Um hi… why here so late? “I saw your survey on my website, and I accept. Come with me to the bakery and we will practice.” I thought this was a great opportunity to expose him, so I was up for it. As we

went into the car, there was a box in the back of the car. And it had a skeleton on it. I thought, there is totally something up with this guy.

Chapter 6So remember in my dream there was a skeleton door? Yeah it was real. “First we will begin. I will get some dough. Stay here and do not go into any of the doors!” He said. It took him awhile to find some dough so I

helped myself. I opened the door, and there was more boxes. So I decided to open one of them. And you some believe what I found. It was a jar of green juice, that has a logo saying “POISON”! I knew this. I took the

jar, and waited for him to come back. “Look what I found here! I’m going to expose you to the whole town!” “Hopefully you can”, he said. “Hopefully your not dead!” He grabbed one VERY sharp knife. I am a self tough fighter, so I looked for objects around the room. He chucked his knife at me, but he tried to hit me. We were

fighting through out the dawn, and we both had some cuts. I eventually pinned him to the floor, and I told him, “you give up all this poison and throw it into some sewer, or it’s the end of your career. Everybody started

hearing loud noises so they were banging at the door. Eventually the cops come, and had key to the door. “Sir what is going on?” I did all the explaining, and before you knew it he was in cuffs. “Thank you kid” he said. “No

problem officer.”

FIVE DAYS LATER…..After that huge incident, I got to start a new bakery. Everyone loved it I’m town! I make everything fresh

homemade, and I even let people watch me bake sometimes. I get a lot of tips to help childhood cancer. This is what I will be doing for a long time! Right now at this moment, I must go because I must make a jelly donut

for table #5. My name is Danny, and this is my story.

Henry Peterman4-3-2019ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Killshot

Chapter 1...

Tears were falling down my cheeks as I saluted Tony Barrow’s casket as it was being carried by other soldiers. Tony Barrow was a great soldier, great husband, and most of all, a great dad. Tony had 17 kills in Iraq, and 36 in Afghanistan. As I stood there, saluting, I thought about all the great moments we had together. The tank we blew up, the sniper we killed with our M4A1’s, the plot to invade Jordan that our platoon foiled. My name is Matt Kingston, and I am here to tell you about my time in the United States Army. I have been through thrilling times, times I was proud, sad times, and everything in between.

June 26, 2009, Rutba Iraq

I was sitting in my chair at my computer doing work when all of a sudden, I heard someone yell, “GET DOWN!”. I was confused while I was hearing a small whistling noise coming from outside. In a split second, I knew what it was. I jumped out of my chair and flew myself to my right, toward my bed. While I was jumping toward my bed, I heard an ear shattering BOOM! I was still in the air when it happened and I got thrown from the shockwave onto the side of my bed. I sat there for a few seconds, regaining my composure. I was hearing screams from men in agonizing pain outside. My stomach felt like it was just shot with a 50 caliber bullet and the screaming didn’t help. I got up with all the strength I had while clutching my stomach. I was walking outside and I saw blood and what I thought was a liver. I knew that men had been blown apart by the missile and I tried not to think about all the body parts on the ground beside me. I knew that the Iraqi army was invading our camp, so I turned back and I grabbed my M4A1 and ran outside at the ready. My sargeant yelled at me and said, “ grab the trauma kit and find the medic, and when you do find him, or if you do, tell him there are men at the back who need major help. Matt, you go to the front where the missile hit and find anyone that needs help

and tend to them.” “Yes Sir!”. I ran to the medical tent and grabbed the trauma kit and ran to the front of the camp. There was so much blood on the ground, I could barely see the cobblestone walkways. In front of me, I saw another soldier without a leg and he was hemorrhaging profusely out of the wound. I ran to him and immediately started to wrap the giant wound in his thigh while finding a pulse.

Chapter 2...

July 30, 2009, Zakho Iraq

A few hours after the missile strike, trucks and helicopters came to pick up what was left of my platoon, which was not a lot of men. The trucks came from the Rutba 3 station. The trucks took us to the Zakho station where we slept for hours while the Zakho soldiers were on watch.

September 4, 2009, Dohuk Province, Zakho Iraq

The General wanted to deploy what was left of my platoon and other soldiers from the Zakho platoon out to Baghdad at 0400 hours the next morning. BANG BANG BANG! I sprang out of bed at 0000 hours and was so tired, I felt like I was drunk and almost fell back onto my bed. The other soldiers sprang up as well and we all stood at attention while sergeant Patterson was explaining to us that we would be having breakfast and then getting into gear. “Guys, and gals, you are going to have breakfast for 45 minutes and then you will work out for 30 minutes. You will get into gear at 0215 hours and then file onto the choppers.” “Yes Sir!”, we all yelled. I got some coffee and breakfast and chatted with the others and then went to the gym tent and worked out. I looked at the clock and saw it was 0200 hours. I wiped the sweat off my head and took a shower for 2 minutes. 0215 hours…..

We were in line and filing into the 7 Black Hawk helicopters we were going to be using to be flown down to Baghdad.

Chapter 3…

July 31, 2009, somewhere over the Saladin Province, Iraq, 0330 hours…

My stomach was churning while we were flying to Baghdad. I couldn’t believe that we were about to invade a small town. We were told that Iraqi terrorists were hiding in houses and that they had a gun shop in town. Our objective was to find and kill all terrorists and blow up the gun shop. We had 2 Apache helicopters as air support coming in from the Wasit 1 Air Station. At 0400 hours, Sergeant Patterson yelled over the communication system, “Everyone that is asleep, wake up!!”. A few guys next to me sprang up in surprise and I laughed.

July 31, 2009, Baghdad Iraq. 0400 hours…

We jumped out of the helicopters, rifles in hand and at the ready. We were crouching low but moving fast toward the houses. A few of our snipers lined the rooftops along the outer edge of town. A few big guys with fully automatic SAW machine guns stood by. When we got to an intersection, our teams split up and went different ways. We went straight, toward the house with the most terrorists. In the distance, I heard the chopping of 2 helicopters. I knew it was the air support. We didn’t want to go toward the gun shop because we knew the Apache’s would fire missiles at it and blow it up. We moved toward house number 1, silently, fast, and stealthy. To our left, we heard 3 gunshots. Then another, and more. Soon there was a gunfight to the left. Suddenly, 6 shots popped off to our right and we whipped around and fired.

Chapter 4…

July 31, 2009, Baghdad Iraq

I fired 2 shots at the Iraqi soldier and popped him in the chest and arm. He collapsed. I walked over to him and kicked the gun away from him. He was mumbling something that I didn’t understand. Probably a plead to not kill him. I didn’t care. I pulled my Glock out of its holster and fired one shot into the middle of his forehead. “Now he’s dead”, I thought. We continued to the house but this time we ran because we knew that the terrorists heard the shots. We got to the house and proceeded to the second floor while a few men surrounded the house with rifles at the ready. A mother and her child were in the front room and we yelled at them to get out of the house while a soldier escorted them with his rifle pointed at her. We found the terrorist and we told him to put the gun down. He didn’t. I fired 4 shots at him. While he was falling, he fired 8 shots at us. 2 of them hit Tony Barrow….

Chapter 5…

September 7, 2009, Arlington Virginia…

I felt as though Tony’s death was my fault. As I was saluting his casket, I couldn’t hold back the tears. Tony was an amazing soldier, dad, and husband, and he would never be forgotten in our hearts. As his American flag draped casket was being put into the grave, my platoon, family, friends, and veterans saluted him as we said one final goodbye. Rest In Peace Tony Barrow. You will not be forgotten.

The End

Sarah Quigley

4/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: The Runner Prologue.

Once there was a girl named Li. She was in 8th grade, she was living a normal life until one day…….

Chapter 1As Li was finishing her homework and doing her chores she was interrupted by this random

phone call. When she answered it all she could hear was this very unfamiliar raspy voice. At the end of the call she could finally hear strait…… all that she heard was “ If I were you I would stay

on the lookout, because I am always watching you.”

She started to freak out, but she decided that she wasn’t going to tell her parents because she thought that it was all just a trick. That night she was excited because she knew that over the

weekend, her and her family were going to an amusement park and they haven’t been to one in so long. The next day when they were at the park Li saw something suspicious and she still

hadn’t told he mom. She overheard the voice and she thought that it sounded like the one from the phone call from the day before. After they had rode some rides and, go something to eat

they went home. Li said “I’m going to clean my room.” To her parents.

Chapter 2As she was cleaning up her room she had gotten another phone called she hadn’t learned her lesson from last time because she still,had answered the phone, and it was the same number that it was from the day before. She could hear whoever was talking so clear this time. As she was listening to the man, she discovered that it was a different man speaking that’s the one before. She was really freaked out. She wanted to go and tell her mom, but she was just too

afraid to tell either of them what it’s going on. She then heard “ Well we see that you have been cleaning up your room from the mess. I would watch out for you brother tonight.” After she was done cleaning, she took a quick nap. When she woke up she was trapped underneath all of her blankets. She was screaming for her mom and dad, they had come up and they didn’t see or hear anything. Since they didn’t see Li they just went back downstairs to feed the new baby.

They hadn’t even noticed that the window was once again wide open. When it was time to eat dinner they were wondering where Li was. They went back up to her room and had finally

realized that it was super cold in her bedroom. They had figured out that her window was wide open. They went to look out the window and to close it and there was nothing there. Then her

parents were trying to figure out where Li was, and they finally decided to go out on a walk to try and find her.

Chapter 3Li’s dad went out to find her, and then out of the corner of his eye, he had saw Li and some other

guys. He went over to get, but by the time that her could get to her the men who had her ran away and didn’t ask anything at all. Then after her dad had seen her he had ran after the men. After awhile he had finally gave up and then he ran home to tell his wife. He was very upset to tell her the devastating news. After all of the sad news, her mom had went on the lookout and then she drove out of the state, since she was so worried about her. Her mom had finally found

her again way back in a restaurant, and then she went back there dressed as a waitress and then she went back and tried to grab her daughter but she couldn’t reach and they got away

once again. Li was worried that her mom wasn’t going to be able to get her back, and her mom and dad were worried that they weren’t going to get Li back to them. Li, the guys, and her mom

all reached the next state and this time they went to a rest stop, but left Li in the car. The windows were rolled down all of the way and then she got out. She found her mom and then they went back to there house. When the man came back out of the stop, they were wondering where Li was so then they went on a hunt. Eventually the made it all the way to virginia. Since they still couldn’t find her they decided to just take a rest. The next day Li and her mom went out so that

they could get some food.

Chapter 4After the doctor's her mom asked what are the guys who have been taking you. Oh you know the guys that drove me out of the state, and you followed us. When they finally got home and

they locked up all of the windows and doors. They were now freaking out. They have been protecting the new baby as hard as they could. Then when everyone was sleeping that night she

got a different random phone call. She answered because it was late at night and she thought that it was her grandmother or something trying to tell her something, but it wasn’t. It was

another group, but this time they were girls. They wanted to know they wanted to try and gang up on the girls. As she was whispering tips he saw some kind of camera move across her room.

Chapter 5

Now she really started to freak out. When she screamed she saw someone run across the room and climb out the window. She was really frustrated with this all “trick” as she thought it was.

That night she told her mom. Li specifically told her mom not to tell her dad. She said that “There is this random camera in my room that I just found today, and I’ve been getting these weird phone calls, and I just saw someone run across my room. Please don’t tell dad or any of my siblings.” She was really scared and her mom. Li and her mom told he dad that they were

moving somewhere else. Li also told her mom, that “ she thought that one of her friends were just playing a “trick” on her. That night when Li went to bed she slept with her parents and then she thought out of the corner of her eye she saw something. Some kind of animal, then she saw it turn into a human. She got out of the little bed that she was sleeping in and she went up to the

man. She was fighting the man until he fell on the floor. Then he started to get and run away. She went to go and check all of the rooms she was so nervous because she was worried that she was going to get taken away again, and then she remembered that she had her powers. Now she

wasn’t as scared so she was about checking the rooms.

Chapter 6She went to check her room first, and then she found two guys in there trying to rummage through all of her stuff. Li yelled to them “If I were I would stay on the lookout because I am

always watching.” She got really mad and they all ran away. The next morning she woke up and then she found herself in her own room. She was really confused on why she was in there. She looked up were the camera was and she noticed that it was gone. When she went downstairs to

tell her parents that the camera was gone. They were happy, but her parents had broken the news to her…….they were all moving. Li asked “Where are we

moving to?”Her mom said that they were moving to North Dakota. She was really upset that they had to move, but she new that she had a friend that was living in North Dakota. She was excited, th

she wasn’t excited at the same time because that meant that she had to leave all of her friends. She didn’t want to leave all of them. As she was thinking of all of these things in her head she remembered that she didn’t watch out for her brother. He hasn’t been gone the last couple of nights. When her mom told her to go and get her brother, and then she walked and he was…..

Chapter 7GONE! When she walked into her brothers room she screamed, “Where are you!”

Her dad ran up to see what was wrong. Li has said “Mom told me to come in and get Ed and now he’s gone.”

He told me to calm down, but I couldn’t. I was really scared I just couldn’t calm down. After I had finally calmed down. We had already started to pack, even though we didn’t buy a house yet. We go everything together and we packed to all away in the truck and we drove on out to Montana.

We were very sad that we had to move so early. L I said to her mom “I didn’t even get to say goodbye to all of me friends.”

Her dad replied and said “It’s ok to will see them again soon. You will be able to talk to them on your phone. I will give you their numbers. I know that you are upset, but you will be ok.”

All of a sudden I got this weird feeling, I looked behind us and then I saw it….

Chapter 8When I looked back I saw it. It was a car that I has seen many of time before I recognized it really

well and I wanted to pull over. I asked my parents, and they asked me why and I said, “ I have this really weird feeling.”

“What is the weird feeling that you have?”“ You see the car that is behind us? That is the weird feeling that I have. I just want them to pass

us so they don’t know that it is us.”We pulled over and we finally saw the car pass us. I was so relieved. When we got back on the

road I was the most relieved out of all of us. I was so happy that they weren’t going to find us, or at least I thought that they weren’t going to find me. They kept on driving to the next state. That

night they had booked a hotel, so that they could stay the night. When they got there Li saw the car again, Sam they went inside. When they went in side the men ran toward Li and Ed….

Chapter 9When the men were running toward Li and Ed, their parents were pulling them away. They were

running after them and they were supper scared. The front desk was calling the police, when they arrived.

Kieran SgarraELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Disappearing World

One day there was a boy who was doing his homework like every other day all of the sudden Justin’s neighbor says “ turn on the news”, Justin sees that some of the world is red. If it is red that means there is a spreading sickness going around. The news guy says “there is the a virus going around the east coast”. Justin rushes to the store to get masks so his family does not get the virus. The news is saying that “ the virus is really bad, people are turning into zombies”. Justin and his dad get food and water, they cover the windows with plywood and nails. The news says “ there is a thing in the sky and if you see it u turn into a zombie. Then Justin and his family start to lose control over their internet and connection on their phones and TV’s in the house so they had to sit and do nothing. Then they heard a knock on the front door a guy says “help they are coming” but Justin saw a bite mark on the guys back. Justin said to his dad “ we will let him in then shoot him” his dad says “why” Justin says “ don’t ask just do it” so they let him in then BOOM the guy drops to the ground. Justin looks down the street he sees a line of ZOMBIES. Justin run inside barricades the door back up. Before Justin put the plywood on the door his dad says “put this zombie outside so we don’t get the virus”. We could hear the zombies getting closer. A zombie gets in the house Justin hits him with a frying pan. Justin found out that if you put bug spray on it keeps the zombie away. So Justin had to to the grocery store. They had to put black paint on the car windows so they could not see the thing in the sky. When they got to the store they took food and water because the store was empty, and they took all of the bug spray.

CHAPTER 2

When we got home there were zombies surrounding our house. We tried to think of a plan to try to get inside. I said “ we should use the bug spray to kill them”. So they got out of the car and used all of the bug spray and we didn’t have any other defense, but I saw a bat outside the gate that leads to the backyard and I used to to hit the zombie and to kill them. Then we made our way inside and then we ate food that we took from the food store. Then we here more knocks on the door and it was a human being. We him inside he told us his adventure on his way to our house. He said “he started on the other side of the country and survived.” Then we gave him some food and water and let him stay with us until the zombies were gone. The next day me and my family ran out of food and all we had was beans and bread but I was allergic to beans, but he had to eat them to survive. 10 minutes later Justin had a allergic reaction . Justin’s mom walked to the basement to find the first aid kit, which had a epipen. Then one day they found this big thing in the in the ground it was a hole, they went down the hole and found people in the hole they said “stay in here it’s safe”. So they stayed there until the zombies were gone. Then they lived there for the rest of their life

NatalieApril 5,2019ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: The Man

It was Friday February 6th, I was running, the wind and rain were whipping in my hair and my eyes. I still saw him, the man,and I thought that I would never escape him. I ran until my heart gave out I looked back and didn’t see him I thought I lost him but…

Hi, my name is Julie and I’m 16 my birthday is tomorrow, tomorrow I get to get my license my parents promised to by me a car if I get straight A's this semester. I’ve studied really hard to get straight A’s let’s hope my work paid off. I’m in highschool I have my 2 best friends Stephanie and Katie we are all BFF we hang out a lot probably because we are all in the same classes. Stephanie,Katie and I are really close we are like sisters are parents are friends where friends are lives couldn’t get any better.

Until this day February 4th we were all on instagram and we were taking photos, talking,and then I look at my phone and I get an anonymous text. The text said “I see you” I start to feel queasy and frightened I tell Stephanie and Katie there shocked and frightened to. I look out my window and I see this man staring at me from the woods in my backyard, in front of the woods is a fence, I saw my neighbor planting flowers while the man was standing there watching me. I close my blinds with a loud “THUD”. I turn to Katie she says I should respond and so does Steph (Stephanie) and I do, I ask the random person how they know me.

They said “ I see you everyday Julie you're my favorite from your little crew of Stephanie and Katie I see you at school and outside of school to”. I was so frightened,terrified, scared,and worried whatever other words mean scared that’s what I was feeling.I told my mom and my friends told there moms because they were scared they would get a message so they told there moms incase they did.

Next morning, I woke up and I looked at my phone the creepy guy said “ wake up, it’s time for you to go to the mall with Katie and Stephanie they're coming to your house”. I was a creeped out of how he knows my schedule for Saturday’s. My schedule/list is really great Katie, Steph and I we made it all together,

Saturday Fun List 1. Go to the mall from 6:00 to 9:00 2. Go to Kiwi Yogurt Shop with frozen yogurt3. Go to the water park, lake,pond,or a beach4. Study for a test or a quiz every Friday, & Saturday

I looked out my window and that stalker guy was correct that my friends where outside waiting to go to the mall and I was frightened. I told my friends what happened and they were speechless.

A couple weeks later I haven’t gotten any texts and I was getting Bs and As on my test and quizzes. On February 5th I stared to get the texts again but this time more and more threatening. I kept looking outside at the woods in front of my neighbors house and I saw smoke coming from a nearby house. I heard the fire alarms sounding, the noise got louder, and louder, and louder. The fire trucks sped right past my house and started to slow down when they got to my neighbors house. My mom came running up to my room in a panic. “Honey, we got to go downstairs.” My mom said panicked. “Mom, what’s happening to Mr. Honeybrooke?” I said to my mom as I was looking out my window while my mom was pulling me downstairs. I couldn’t believe this was happening, it felt like I was watching a horror film and I was scared out of my mind.

The fire department had to find Mr.Honeybrooke in his house and bring him out. He was wearing a breathing mask because his airway was filled with smoke and he couldn’t breath very well. I was scared that maybe the guy that was stalking me maybe had something to do with Mr. Honeybrooks fire in his house. I looked at my phone I asked the anonymous man if he started the fire in Mr. Honeybrooks house and he said “No” I was relieved that it was not him. I was hopping Mr. Honeybrook was ok and that he wasn’t seriously injured. It was a couple weeks after the fire at Mr. Honeybrooks house and he was ok thank god nothing serious happened. It was February 6th and I woke up I got a text on the instagram account saying “ look out your window” I did and I saw this man the same man that I had saw when I started getting the text. He texted

me again I didn’t look at it I ignored him. My doorbell rang and I thought that it was Katie and Stephanie but i was wrong when I opened the door it was the same man that I had seen outside 5 min ago.

I could barely breathe my mom asked who it was and I didn’t answer she came to the door and said this is my coworker John I invited him over for dinner. I couldn’t talk I was just confused I felt like o was gonna pass out and I did. 3 hours later I woke up it was 9:00 it was late and my mom and John were still doing work and my mom said ok John we are done see you tomorrow at the office. I told my mom that I would walk John outside. 10 min later me and John were walking and I asked him why he is stalking me and being weird he didn’t say anything. I realized that his whole face was bright red and it looked like he was gonna burst I stared to run into these woods and he followed me. I kept running the wind and rain were whipping in my hair and my eyes. I still saw him, the man,and I thought that I would

Joseph Toner4-3-19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: i don’t have long

My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and something horrible is happening. I live in a very small town, Haverbrook it’s called, the worst crime is usually someone burning their trash

pile too high and every now and then a robbery from some person with the brain capacity of a goat. So it came as a shock when six people were murdered in one month. The first murder in forty eight years and the first serial murder in a really, really long time. But there is so much more to this than just another episode of your favorite murder drama.

The first who died was a sweet high school girl, she had perfect blonde hair and she was all anyone could talk about before and after death. She had wanted to be an actress and she might have made it too. Instead fate lead her to a shallow grave outside of town just a few days after the missing signs went up with her face plastered on it.

The second one, almost a week later was the mutilated body of Arnold James along the side of the road, his perfect teeth strewn across the damp pavement next to a crowbar. His orthodontist would have been horrified.

Four more murders happened after the first two although the missing signs stayed up, their bodies never were found. It seemed every day a new missing sign went up. They did find the badly scarred body of one more “victim”. That body was my best friend, they didn’t even have time to put up missing signs before they found her body in the creek with slash wounds covering her back. Her name was Aubrey Dunham she may have been my best friend but she was my better half in every way, her curly auburn hair outshining my wild brown hair, her bright green eyes lighting up the room like a candle, and her heart was as big as a bus. She always told me I would make an impact on the world one day, she was right, just not in the way she expected.

As the police did their investigation into the murders one of them tried to console me by telling me that Aubrey must have gotten too close to the murder and found something out the murderer didn’t wan, but I already knew that.

Devastated was the word floating around town although few meant it, people were just glad to have one less mouth to feed. I am the only one who truly understands loss, ever since my brother Copper died a year ago and everyday since then I ask myself why I didn’t do more, but he answers, that man. The man in my head, he took Copper’s place, and the man always knows what to say, and I always listen.

My whole world is falling apart. But I had to do it the voice was getting too loud. My only hope is that this gets out before they find me and take me away.

My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and I think I’m being followed.My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and I did something horrible.My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and I see a man outside.My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and behind this quiet girl facade is a monster

My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and I murdered six people.My name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and they are knocking down the door. I don’t think they’re

here to put me behind barsMy name is Delilah Weaver, I’m 16 years old and I am going to die tonight.

Ashtian Vitale4/17/19ELAMr. Lamison, Period 1


Story Title: Connections

The ship had landed. With it, I came down as well. My name is Jacob Fin and I was a military officer, until August 13, 2020 when a helicopter exploded with me in it. At 6:54 AM I awoke to the sound of a loud siren. At the time, the “bad guys” had planned an attack on our base, and I jumped to my feet and knew it was not a drill as soon as I heard loud cracking noises.

I grabbed my uniform and rushed out. I climbed in to a helicopter on the sideline and when I got up, a bullet shot through my windshield and nearly hit me. I drove over where the artillery shack was but something was wrong, I was flying slow, I looked to my right to find a chunk of my cabin wall and then a loud bang right in the center of the cabin. I saw a surreal bomb ready to blow me out, and all there was left of me was the ringing in my ears and the intense pain across my chest and legs. I awoke to find a nurse working on a sheet of paper and gasped to find me awake. “Doctor!” she yelled and a tall old man ran in and said “Well hello Mr. Fin, we see you had some day!” I lifted up my hands and saw the dirty wounds scattered like puzzle pieces across my chest and hands. It felt like my legs weren’t attached to my body, I tried to sit up but all that came from it was intense pain and an agonizing groan that slid through my swollen mouth.

“Woah, you broke your spine Jacob, you can’t be in the military anymore, is that understood?” “Yes,” I managed to say. “Good, you’ll be in a wheelchair for 5 weeks, it will take time to get used to.” I went home in my wheelchair in the back of the doctors van. My family rushed out and with astonished faces asked me what had happened. “He had a major crash in a helicopter and was in a coma for 8 weeks, make sure he is very careful.” “A coma?” Then the doctor left.

“Oh my gosh,” my family said, and “What happened?” They asked, and then it all went black. I awoke in my bed and leaned up, no pain, I looked at my body, no wounds, “Was it a dream?” I asked myself. I turned on the TV and on the news it said, “Man critically injured in helicopter crash after being attacked by terrorists.” I was extremely confused when someone knocked on the door. They asked if I was Jacob Fin, “Yes, do you need something?” I asked. “Excuse us, but do you know anything about the helicopter crash?” “Yes,” “Well, you sir broke the barrier for internal connections.”

“What are you talking about?” I asked them, “Well, you’re brother Ben Fin was admitted into the U.S. National Coast Guard, and you passed out of a major migraine attack. What was extraordinary was when exactly as you're brother woke up, at 6:54 AM, your helicopter exploded.” I was trying to process all of it, but it was like a puzzle with a million pieces. It just didn’t make sense. “In other words, you had more experience than him with the army, and somehow went into his brain and saved both his life and yours from attack.” “I guess I’m grateful to have the ability to save him, because both he and I would have died without it,” “Indeed you should,” they said. That was the last time I ever saw them. Months then years went on, my life went normal, but the same question stuck in my head, what had I done?

Torin Whitten4/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Rolland’s Story

“The small town of Rolland, has been run down for years. It used to be a popular tourist attraction, but since the “accident” happened, no one, not even the owners, Mrs and Mr Rolland, went back there. Rolland was known for its harbors and beautiful bays full of fish, and other marine animals. If you saw Rolland today, it would’ve looked completely different. Water was black, houses burned down, and no one around. One day an entrepreneur, was looking for a new space to set up his business. What seemed suspicious, was that he died of a mysterious disease. Other people tried buying the property, and they have died as well, but never the same way. The worlds question was how was this happening? People claim to see a dark, cloaked figure, but no proof supports that this figure is the cause of the mysterious deaths on the property. One of the main people that this case attracted, was scientist, Warner Abtal. He was fascinated with the property, but knew stepping foot on it would result in death. He carefully planned his approach to this by staying in a town a few miles away from the Rolland property, he wanted to document his adventure there, he suspected a few people dead on the ground but when he arrived he couldn’t fight off the smell off rats and bodies guessed to be lying dead since the first victim was confirmed. Prof. Abtal hired a crew to follow him in his expedition to Rolland, though it took him years to find a crew willing to go into, “The Rolland’s Graveyard” the name given to it by, the world. When Prof. Abtal, his crew, and his documentary wasn’t ever found, it was the end of the search for the cause of all of theses deaths, and why and how it was killing humans. Though When the problem seemed over it continued. The problem was spreading throughout the world, and popular tourist attractions where the people or thing behind this knew, there would be people, like the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and they even closed down the Golden State Bridge, blowing the center of it up keeping people from going across. This is affecting the world dramatically, and can result in world destruction, this is so big. This world problem must be stopped.

Charlotte Charles, World 11 News here signing out, oh and there is something I accidentally left out, about…”.

Morgan3/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Grave Of The Undead

Do not just sit their and weep I am not there I do not sleep I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the summer glints but on the snow you may not see me at night or day but I am there anyway. there are little things I get mad over but this one, being alone is not fun. But if there’s one thing I learned it’s nothing at all but I am the ocean when I rise and fall, but you can’t see anything of me at all. I’m a ghost at night but not in your sight but in day I’m nothing I’m not there but here I’m nature I’m the leaves in the trees and the wings of bees, you may not see me but my name is Fred I’ve come to warn you about the grave of the undead. It’s not very nice but you’ll know soon enough from the time I was young to the time I am old but time doesn’t apply to me now I Have all the time in the world. The littlest hints could mean the biggest things I could be in a house but every day is a holiday now this is not any ordinary house something is strange about it all the people there are dull and the two adults they wouldn’t let me call my own mom, they said we already contacted her and she knows that you're here but this place was not of good cheer. Little did I know that every month that goes by here that was one full year in the real world I’ve been here for four months now and to me it’s been a while even though my parents think that I’m not even alive even though I was gone for a while, I’ll be back but in a pile just a heap of flesh nothing to see but a memory of me. The holiday house is not what you think but the sad thing is our worlds aren’t in sync. It’s kinda sad how fast life goes by but we still don’t know why. I’ve come back to the real world and I was confused on where I was at first than I saw my street and sure enough found my “old” house knocked on the door and this grumpy old man answered I told him hi I’m Fred Jones my dad said that “he went missing long ago” and thought this was a joke but I knew in my mind this was than my mom comes to the door and she tells my dad “he looks like our long lost son” and long lost I was but in time I had no clue what year it was. My parents took me in and I still can’t find a way to reverse time but I will just a matter of time my parents are to old it’s sad how fast it went by but this life is not a piece of pie remember me from the day I was dead to now that place was heaven but on earth I was a distressed soul. I should not have gone to such an evil place my parents don’t believe me but my friends do I hope you do to!

Jenny Wu4/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: True confession of Charlotte Doyle: Captain perspective

Chapter 1I was so excited for the new girl on board.Her father was a very high class man just like

me and the girls family was very rich. It was the day before we dock and we were told by Mr.Rummage the dock person at liverpool that the family the girl was suppose to go on with had cancelled. I was happy because this meant I could have a one on one and have a nice conversation with her.

The next day I got ready and got on the boat and then came the passenger. She introduced herself as Charlotte Doyle and she was very nervous so i had to make her comfortable. I showed her to the best cabin aboard which is the cabin with little room she looked shocked. Anyways fast forwards a couple hours I saw the crew they all looked HORRIBLE I was annoyed I gave them orders right away and made sure they had everything in order or else I would amputate their arm if they didn’t do my orders. When I went back to my cabin I hid my key to the weapon safe behind my daughters photo in case the new girl comes to my cabin. I had told her if anything happened to immediately report to me.

Chapter 2 Several months when by without a word then one day Charlotte came on to the boat all

shaking. I was furious with the crew for not making her comfortable but that’s not what happened.

She told me that the crew had a Red Robin and were planning to take over MY SHIP I was furious and told my assistant Mr.Hollobrass to prepare all the weapons and I took the key out of my daughters photo and I started pacing back and forth thinking of an idea.Not only was I furious I was unstoppable with anger but I didn’t want to show what I was feeling.When I walked out of my cabin there stand was ALL the crew members were standing there like they’ve been ready for war all along. Then came Cranik blabbering all the things I was annoyed and it triggered my side I decided enough was enough I shot him. I was satisfied with my things. But of course Zakariah had to check it out.

Chapter 3 “ Leave him” I said Zakarish didn’t listen “LEAVE HIM!” I said again he still didn’t leave him

finally I had enough and told Hollobras to dump the body into the ocean and take all their weapons. I asked the crew who started the Red Robin had to die too. Not one said a peep so I went to Charlotte she didn’t say a word so I got to choose. “Zakariah” I said “Hang him by the arm and whip him unit, he has 40 slashes on his back.” I said to my assistant “Now!!!”So it happened.

Chapter 4But I may have gone to far but I was satisfied but then the little girl Charlotte grabbed the

whip and slashed my face from my left cheek to my ear. It stung but I played it cool and went back to my cabin i felt betrayed . It stung so badly I got my first aid kit and bandaged my wound.I was furious but also in pain. About 1 hour later I heard “hurray hurray” I was confused why in the world would my crew be cheering? So I went to check it out. There I saw it Charlotte Doyle climbed the boat strip I was even more furious than before I said “Why are you climbing it” and she said she wanted to be part of the crew” I was shocked. So I did what the Charlotte wanted I told her to go get her things and go to where the crew members slept. But little did anyone know I had a plan

Chapter 5“Don’t do it” “ I’m doing it” don’t” yes” no” yes” me and Hollobras argued if we Should

drive the boat into the hurricane upcoming “no” yes” no” how dare she betray me like this doesn’t it deserve some sort of consequence you think” no they deserve another chance” Are you crazy!?” I bellowed I decided since I’m captain I get to do whatever I want. So I drove the ship into the hurricane.

Chapter 6 During the shift of the hurricane I was so satisfied but something wasn’t right. I felt like

Charlotte deserved some kind of punishment for joining the crew so I went behind Hollobras back and murdered him now I was satisfied but out of the blue I saw Zakariah. What?! I thought to myself how could this be he died a week ago but I kept quiet and waited until it was the right time to convict her and potentially put her in jail. We had finally made it pass the hurricane and now it was time I told Charlotte to go to trial in the deep hole and wait there. I had told Barlow to bring her down there. 15 minutes later I went downstairs and asked her a series of question and asked the crew to answer. But they didn’t which meant I was on a good track. My plan was i wouldn’t confess until she confessed and keep quiet and told the crew because they were all my slaves. I was so satisfied with my work because she deserved it for slashing my face with the whip, and joining the crew after trial I gave her 24 hours till she had to be hung and die.

Chapter 7I went back to my cabin all happy then all of sudden I heard a person knocking “come in” I

said. Slowly in walked Keech he told me that Charlotte and Zakariah were at the hole and that Zakariah were going to try to save her. “WHAT!” I said surprised this can’t be true I thought to myself my plan was working so well and now Zakariah is helping her? What were they thinking? I decided to do something I thought I would never ever do. I believed Keech and told him to tell me what they were planning on doing. Once he left I heard a little creek. It was Charlotte Doyle. I was now well aware of the situation. After what seemed like forever I gave her 3 choices. Return as a passenger and have your outfits, renounce as a crew, or stand trial. Finally she made up her mind.

Chapter 8It was chaos but I didn’t care I was determined to kill Charlotte Doyle but I lost balance

and fell overboard, and to my surprise Charlotte tried to help but it was to late I fell into the ocean and swallowed so much salt water I couldn’t breath.

Skylar Mcmillan4/3/19ELAMr. Lamison


Story Title: Before

By:Skylar McmillanIntro

I am running for my life. ‘Breathe, Keep Going, Breathe’ suddenly I’m on the ground. It’s always the same nightmare… always the same. I jolt upright and am relieved to be in my bed rather than lying in the dirty alleyway on 23rd street. As I said, it’s always the same, and I always wake up with a start. My name is Trixi, I’m 15 and kind of amazing.

Chapter 1

“Hurry Up James! We don’t have all day!” I keep pounding on his bedroom door and then his face because he rips open the door, “OWW! Trixi what the heck?” “Oops! Sorry James!” We both head to my Super Fast Chevy Pickup truck. Suddenly Hello Trixi. “AHHHHH!” I shrieked “What?” James demanded worriedly, Don’t sound so supersized, now listen closely… I cut the voice off and whisper under my breath, “Listen voice, get out of my head” and get this, it actually chuckled at me. I wish it were that simple, but listen… I can tell you were Jasper is. “WHAT!!!” I half shrieked. Jasper is my brother who was kidnapped by a demon, Clark Allgood to be precise. I whip out my phone and dial my Second In Command Willows number. It rings three times and then, “Hello Trixi.” “CLARK!” I shrieked into the phone. “Don’t sound so surprised but…” I cut him off “Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do!” I snapped at him through the phone. “Where is she!” He said nothing, “Where. Is. She. Clark.” I said again only this time with gritted teeth and now he answers me… “Your it” he said “LEAVE HER ALONE CLARK!” I shrieked into the phone and snapped it shut, then with anger, took out my I-Phone and started texting Ellis. She replied quickly when I asked her to come over

Chapter 2

Minutes later Ellis arrived with the gear, “Hey Ellis, What’s up?” James said casually, and then my cell phone rings, I whip it out and put it to my ear, “Hello, Who is it?” I asked and suddenly wished I didn’t, “Hello Trixi, I’m glad you answered my call.” I hung up. “Should I call over the others?” “Yes that’s a good idea Ellis.” I said, the others are Tobias, Alice, Edward, and Victoria. That’s almost my whole group, Jasper and Willow are the last two and they are now both kidnapped by a Demon. Trixi, you need to take the strongest 3 with you to save Willow and Jasper. “Got it” I said under my breath and then I got a text from Tobias. I read it and replied.

Chapter 3

The rest of them show up later and I get down to business, “I need Tobias, Victoria, and Edward with me, Ellis you Alice, and James hold fort here.” and then my teams racing for my truck, “I drive.” I declared, none of us can really drive, but I’m the best, “I call shotgun.” Tobias says to them. “AWW!” Victoria says, “you got to last time, and the time before, and the time before that, you get my point.” “Guys!” I snap at them, they’re brother and sister and highly annoying when they fight, “We’re on a mission!” I can not tolerate fighting when it comes to them. “This time, Victoria gets shotgun.” Take the highway to the fifth exit and turn right on bashful road. The voice is very helpful and Brooklyn has weird road names. “Ready for a rescue mission?” I ask them and of course I get three yeses in return. “Let’s roll guys!” I shout over the roar of my engine and we’re off to get back my brother. I crank the Country music high and we were all singing along. I did as the voice told me, took the fifth off ramp and turned right on Bashful road and into an abandoned warehouse lot. It’s for Whole Foods Market. “Let’s go guys.” I say and we were ambushed.

Chapter 4

“Hello kids!” Then came the all too familiar laugh from behind and the back window smashed and a large hand grabbed Edward and he was yanked out of the truck. “FIGHT MODE GUYS!” I yelled over the loud laughing of demons. I threw open my door and put a roundhouse kick to the nearest demon and had the satisfaction of hearing him moan then I punched the next in the nose and I broke it. Did I mention we were super strong and fast already, I didn’t? Well now you know. I slapped my palms on Clark’s ears and heard the ear drums blow, he howled in agony and dropped Edward who fell to the ground rubbing his neck. “Thanks.” He said, “No Prob, let’s kick some more demon butt, huh?” I held out my hand and he took it, I heaved him to his feet and it began again only this time I yelled, “Phase!” And all four of us turned into wolves. After the demons were ripped to shreds, we all changed back and went into the safe house. Stop the voice said and I said in a low voice, “Stop” my crew did as they were told, Willow and Jasper raced to us. When both were safe I embraced Jasper. I pulled away instantly as he winced. He has a variety of cuts and bruises across his face and chest. “Don’t you dare ever go after a crazy demon again Jasper, you nearly gave me a heart attack” “Sorry ‘Mom’. Didn’t know I needed your permission.” We hugged again a little softer than before and then I tackled Willow in a big bear hug that on impact, we fell to the ground. “Let’s go home guys.” I said and heaved Willow to her feet again. We got into the truck again and this time Jasper had shotgun, Willow was on his lap, I drove, Tobias his complaining sister Victoria on his lap and Edward had a seat to himself. When we got back, James tackled Willow in a hug, did I mention that they’re siblings? No? Okay, well now you know. Ellis gave Jasper an awkward hug and Tobias swung me in a tight one. Suddenly I heard a blood curdling scream from Willow and then I ended up with my face to the sky and saw a horrific sight, Clark was back from the dead, “Miss me much, Trixi” “Clark, how the heck are you alive?” I almost passed out in shock, almost. They chucked me into a stinkie truck and I past out.

Chapter 5

When I woke up I was sure I had died, wolf kids go to heaven, right? Yes? No? Maybe? I don’t know but I’m sure we do. Then I realized that I was in a cage of silver mesh. These humans still believe silver harms us, ha-ha, stupid humans, no offense reader, but humans are just plain stupid nowadays. Tobias noticed I was up and said, “Morning sleeping beauty.” In a rough voice. He sounded horrible. Like he was choked, maybe he was. I looked around and counted heads, Edward, Alice, James, Victoria, Ellis, Tobias, Willow, Jasper, and Me. We are all here and not in good condition either. James moaned and shifted in his sleep, Willow was sitting to my right and Jasper to my left. Victoria jolted upright and said, “Please make a plan to get out of here Trixi.” She looked as if she was hit by a bus and run over by a tractor. Apparently being a wolf has no super fast healing powers. “I will get us out alive guys.” I said, I sounded horrible. I didn't seem so sure though. A little later a door opened, flooding the room with light and I was grabbed by a rough hand, I bit it as hard as possible and my captor howled in agony, his grip

softened and I wiggled out of the hand, gave him a roundhouse kick for good measure and said, “Everybody out.” They all scrambled out and I had to haul out Victoria because she was weak. Then we ran, it’s like my dream again, running, hard time breathing, shouting and gunfire. Horrible flashbacks happen to me now and again while we’re running. Horrible flashbacks. I shake my head and blow over a demon ripping his arm off in the process in which I used to bar the door we ran through. “Check.” I said weakly. “Okay.” I heard Tobias mutter in my ear. I jumped, say, 5 feet in the air. “Don’t do that Tobias.” I hissed at him. “Good enough.” Jasper croaked to the left. “Perfect.” Victoria said with heavy sarcasm. “Shut up. I’m fine by the way.” James said. “Ellis, Willow, Edward, Alice?” I asked. “Fine.” They all said at the same time. BAM! BAM! They hit the door with some force. “They can’t get in guys.” I said, praying that they couldn’t. Then, out of nowhere, Clark Allgood materialized and Victoria shrieked.

Chapter 6

I jumped him from behind and hissed in his ear, “Your supposed to be dead, you moron.” He didn’t reply. I gripped his arms behind his back. “Got nothing to say?” This is confusing I thought to myself. “Trixi, calm down, it’s a robot.” Tobias said. “Can robots come out of nowhere and

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