Anthology by 10s&11s - 4

1. Mary - Abbie Moyle - 52. The Dream - Angelo von Moller - 73. Dragon Stack - Isaac Cecil - 74. Life as... Jemima Tonkin - 85. Moss’s Dream - Moss Bram - 9 6. It’s just your Mind - Ruby Foley - 107. The Hungry Bear - Tom Downing - 108. Poppy and Sammy’s Adventures with Waddles - Amelie Thompson -119. Vanish - Sam Lukich - 1210. Ghosts - Dari Justin - 1311.Witches Brew - Francesca O’Donnell-Young - 1412. Illustration - Jesse Stewart - 1513. Zinntann - Asher Brady - 1614. The Dog - Will Bishop - 1915. Rosie’s Story - Rosie Blight -2016. Lola’s Story - Lola-Rose Versace and Rosie Blight - 2117. Fran and Lyla’s Story - Francesca O’Donnell-Young and Lyla Brown - 2218.The Adventure - Greta Lynch - 2319. Illustration - Plum Talbot - 2720.Cautious Liv - Rosie Blight - 2821. Illustration - Ebony Campese and Amelie Thompson - 3022. Sienna and Stella - Sienna Campese and Stella Holmes A Court - 3123. Numbers - Ruby Marriott - 3224. Lucinda’s story - Lucinda Greene - 3325.Safire - Nichaud Kuti - 3426. Illustration - Kate Golding - 3527.The Robot and the Dog - Fletcher Alderton- 3628. Fred and the Zombie - Max Braund - 3629. Illustrations - Asher Brady and Plum Talbot - 3730. Poems - William Golding - 3831. Cat and Mouse - Arkie Klotz - 3932. The Firefighter and the Paramedic - Griffin Murray-Johnson - 4033. Illustration - Elliott Lusted - 4034. O goes to Japan, M goes to Singapore - Meier Bram and Oliver Addison - 4135. Beauty and the Beast - Annabel Govenlock - 4236. The Hobbit - Hephzibah Fraser - 4237. A Little Poem - Daisy Lloyd - 4338. Hudson’s Slender Man series - Hudson Mackay - 4439. Shoes and Socks - Stella Holmes a Court and Eve Macri - 4640. The Day the Farm Flooded - Tilda George-Murphy - 4741. Ben’s Story - Ben Brosnan - 4942. Jakob and Samson - Miranda Routt - 5043. Shadow Fear - Seb Forsyth - 5244. The Forest - Taigh O’Donnell-Young - 53

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45. All the Colours of the Rainbow - Amelie Justin and Tilda George-Murphy - 5546. Mr. And Mrs. Perry’s Adventure - Ebony Campese and Acorn Holmes a Court - 5647. Doggy and Miss Bird’s Adventure - Imogen Welsh - 5648. The World - Lucia Varrosso - 5749. Ghost Eating Brains - Orson Brady - 5850. Unlucky - Dean Diamond - 5951. Everything is Beautiful and Pretty - Clementine Rose - 6152. The Lost Diamond - Mia Harrison - 6253. The Metal Man - Grace Lee - 6554. Mr. Jelly - Harley Lucas - 6655. Jack and the Beanstalk - Oscar Wilson and Orlando DiCiero - 6756. Dynotopia - Lyla Brown - 6857. Sangar - Elkan Brady - 7058. The Random Story - Seb Xipolitou - 7359. Anja’s Story - Anja Margach - 7460. The Mysterious Holly - Louis Dowse and Ziggy Grambas - 7961. Riley’s story - Riley Bowen - 8262. The Luck Dragon - 8363. Ezra’s Story - Ezra Justin - 8464. The Lightening Magic - Charles Lewis - 8565. The Climb - Max McCafferty Clark - 8766. Illustration - Sasha Arnold-Levy - 8967. Sam Heep’s Story - Sam Heeps - 9068. Candyland - Phoebe Talbot - 9169. Not meant to be - Sasha Arnold-Levy - 9270. Sebastian’s Story - Sebastian Forsyth -9571. Fairy Rapunzel - Ruby Rose McCarthy - 9672. Things that I always wondered - Elkan Brady - 9773. Illustration - Plum Talbot - 9774. Poem - Sam Heeps - 9875. Why Did Sally fall off the swing - Lily Blight - 10076. The Magical City - Felix Stewart and Max Braund - 10677. A Way to Freedom - Ollie Addison - 10978. The on going war of the upset old people - Allegra Holmes a Court - 11079. Round 23 Carlton vs Fremantle - Andrew Thompson - 11280. The Blacksmith - Moss Bram - 11481. Ten Unfortunate Children - Clementine Rose - 11682. The Ghost Story - Preston Mckay - 11783. Traveling - Carmen Moschietto-Fransa - 11884. The Chinese War - Liv Carlisle - 12385. Pompeii - Lucy Boyce - 13186. The Artifacts - Lillian Lucas - 13587. Should have expected it - Stella Crawford-Rust and Juliet Marzella - 13788. The Artifact - Cassius Musiatowicz - 13889. Nonsense Poem - Stella Crawford-Rust and Audrey Robinson - 13990. The Cup and Plate - Tuscany Taylor - 14091. Illustration - Tove Gomes-McConnell Tove - 14192. Facing the Truth - Laura Pryor - 14293. Kaya and Sparrow - Bella Moyle - 14394. The Heist - Dante Kuti - 14495. Lost - Tove Gomes-McConnell - 15096. The Tracks - Ethan Cassar -151

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97. Man on Mars - Hugo Wilson - 15298. Gabe’s Story - Gabriel DiCiero - 15799. Illustration - Tove Gomes-McConnell - 158100.Round 6 Hawthorn vs Freemantle - Will Govenlock - 158101. The Ghost - Mia Harrison - 160102. Illustration - Plum Talbot - 160103. Massimo’s Story - Massimo Mecchi - 162104. I am a sketch - Ruby Foley - 163105. Gun Toting Pelican’s - Finn Brunton - 163106. Matthew’s Story - Matthew Tucker - 164107.Bums - anonymous - 166108. Illustration - Milly Lusted - 167

Anthology Week is a celebration. The children take over the Hall and fill it with pencils and pens, paper and laptops, pastels and paints and everyone has complete freedom to write and draw whatever they like. In the weeks leading up to the event people have already started thinking about what they would like to write about. They seem so eager to begin.There has always been a rich tradition of story telling at Arlington. The children have been encouraged to tell their stories since the 3s and 4s and they are practiced in expressing their ideas for others, in drawings and paintings and imaginative games with their friends.They are completely committed and engrossed in the process, barely coming up for air. They need to be reminded to eat and take a break outside in the garden.They sit in groups and discuss their work, helping each other with spelling and scribing for those whose hands are tired. They are eager to read their work to the group, or have someone read it for them if they feel shy. They listen attentively and are supportive and helpful when someone stumbles over their words.When the 3s and 4s and 5s come in to join the throng, many people want to help them record their stories. They work together as one community. Class boundaries no longer seem to exist and they all relish in the feeling of autonomy and ownership of the task.The stories, poems and illustrations in the Anthology are amazing.Well done Arlington!!!!cal

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ANTHOLOGY

I saw paper piling high,I saw time flying by;I heard pencils writing fast,I heard ideas soaring past;I felt happy to write and write,I felt my hand get oh so tight;I heard book worms reading stories,I felt my eyeballs getting sories;I felt bored, some ideas went,I forgot how much time i spent;Anthology was fun, fun, fun,I can’t believe so much got done!

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The Dream

“Help Help Help Help!” I heard from downstairs - from the living room.I stop. I hear a BOOM. I keep on going and I see a shadow.The shadow forms across a curtain and it has a top hat.At first I think it’s my dad. Then I stop again and wonder.I say to myself, ‘Its not a ghost, its not a ghost, its not a ghost.”Then it disappears in a puff of smoke.I walk into the living room. I see a lump under the carpet.I go to it. I get really scared. I run to the stairs. I go to the bedroom door. I realise there’s no room. I’m on a train. I realise we’re going through the country.Its World War II. I see castles. They have guards out the front of them. A king and queen get thrown into a volcano.I was scared. I run to go to the stairs but I realise there’s no stairs. A voice says ‘You are not alone.” Then I see a dead body.All of a sudden I died. Luckily it was a dream.

Angelo von Moller

Dragon Stack

Once upon a time, a dragon called Puff the Magic Dragon was walking down the the street in his suit and tie. When Oh No! He got stuck in the mud!He tried to get out but he couldn’t!When Isaac was walking down the street, he tried to get him out but he couldn’t.So Isaac went away and so Isaac went back to his house.

By Isaac CecilRecorded by Bella

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Life as...

If you could do anythingDream up anythingBe the hero of your imaginationIf you had a million dollars.

It was a very cold nightIt was rainingI saw a lightA shineI saw very dark cloudsBut most important I saw my familyI fell down a very deep holeMy family faded in the darkness of the nightI saw the sun and I saw iceAnd me in my homeAll very niceI saw my family againI even saw my bunnyMy whole family was back together.

Jemima Tonkin

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Moss’s Dream

I’m in a room pitch black and I am stuckWhat do I do?Noooooo!!!!!!!!!Not a zombie!!!

You wake up.You hear a noise.Then a scream!!

RevoltingUmbrellasNope!!!!

I see a signMore screamingThen I know what I must do!!

RUN!

I said, “RUN!”Away and away!!!

The End

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Its Just Your Mind The heat seared my face, I looked around, nothing. I had been stranded there for days, and the sand was hotter than ever. I turned around, A TOWN! No, it was one of my hallucinations, NO, IT HAD TO BE A TOWN! I ran towards it. As I got closer, it disappeared. I sighed, turned around and continued walking.After about half an hour of walking, I saw another town and...and...THE SPHINX! No, “It’s just your mind,” I said. I walked towards the town. As I walked past the town, I could hear voices. “IT’S JUST YOUR MIND!” I yelled. The people in the town starred at me. Little did I know, they were real. Suddenly, I had a plan. I started to run towards the sphinx, I mean, it would disappear anyway....or so I thought.I got closer and closer to the sphinx, “C’mon!” I said. “Disappear already!”Suddenly, I hit the sphinx and fell to the ground with a blood nose.“It’s just your mind,” I squeaked “It’s just your mind.”

END Ruby Foley

The Hungry Bear

The Hungry Bear

“I’m hungry. I feel like I’m gonna die soon,” said the bear.So the bear died because it didn’t have any food.It came back as a ghost. But before the bear died he gave all the food to the Hungry Caterpillar.So the caterpillar gave some to the ghost.

Tom Downing

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Amelie&Thompson

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Vanish

The&morning&sun&wakes&me.&I&slip&my&hand&over&the&alarm&and&push&the&button.&&It&shuts&down.&I&slip&into&some&fresh&clothes&and&close&my&door.&I&call&the&elevator.&&I&walk&in&and&wait.&The&doors&close&and&I&start&moving&down.&There’s&a&loud&BANG!!!!&“What&happened?”&I&think.&I&look&up&and&see&the&vent.&I&push&it&and&start&to&climb.&Halfway&up&I&here&a&noise&and&look&down&and&see&the&elevator&coming&up.&“Oh&no!”&I&jump&backwards&and&close&my&eyes.&I&open&my&eyes.&I&vanish.&My&name&is&James&and&this&is&my&story.

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Once upon a time there was a boy called Sam. He woke up and he saw a ghost. He went through him. He ran up the stairs and he got a knife. He ran down the stairs. He stabbed the ghost. The knife went right through him.Then 5 ghosts were in front of him. He went through them. He ran through the door. He was in his garden. He ran out the gate. He ran on the road. He ran through the park and he was out of puff.He saw a hut. He went in. The ghost went through the wall. He was stuck. The ghost was making a whirlwind and he threw the whirlwind in at him. Sam ducked. He ran out of the hut. He climbed up a tree. He was safe for a second. The ghost flew up.Sam found a sword in his pocket. The ghost died. But the ghost turned into a zombie. The zombie was easy to beat normally but this one as the master. He felt scared. He ran back home. He locked the door.He was safe.

The End

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A long time ago, in the Valley of Dawn there was a small dragon called Zinntann. From what Zinntann knew, she was a disgrace to the family because she was different - she was small, she was harmless and she wasn’t anything like her mother, father, brother or sisters. She had no friends, apart from Henry the mouse, who lived in the corner of her cave.In her cave she found three lines of runes that she did not understand. When she was little she had pretended that she had written the runes and that they lead to some place wonderful that would make her better. Every night she dreamed of a place that she would fit into and she would be part of of.One day Zinntann decided to go to Tharn the elder dragon. Tharn was the wisest of all the dragons and the oldest by far. Zinntann wanted to see Tharn because she wanted to know what the runes on the cave wall meant. Henry wanted to come with her so she said yes. Tharn lived on the other side of Dawn. When Zinntann and Henry arrived they had a doubt. Would Tharn be able to help them.Zinntann raised her harmless paw and knocked, the sound of talons on rock were approaching from the dark cave. Out of the cave walked Tharn. “Hello little one”, said Tharn. “What do you need?” “I need you to come to my cave and see if you can read the runes that are imprinted on my cave wall. “Runes imprinted on your cave wall eh?”“YAH!” Said Zinntann getting over exited, “They are all these strange markings and dots!” “Okay said Tharn, “Where do you live?”“On the other side of Dawn,” replied Zinntann.“Fine, then lets get going,” said Tharn, while collecting potions, powders and other things that Zinntann didn’t know about.“Lets go then.”

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The Dog - Will BishopOnce there was a dog at night time. He lived in a hole in a tree. And in the night the full moon was always up. But one night the full moon didn’t come up and it was scary for the dog that the moon was not coming up.He hid a hole very snuggly. There was a person and he turned into a were wolf. He tried to eat the dog!The dog found a really sharp stick. He poked it in the werewolf’s nose. The werewolf got angrier. But then lightening struck him. Then he was dead.The dog saved his own life.Then there were heaps of bad guys. He got a big bouncing stick and he flicked it up and it hit every bad guy.Then he snuggled up in his warm hole in his tree.And then he lived happily ever after.

The End.Will Bishop

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Rosie’s story

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Lola’s storyIllustrated by Rosie

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Fran and Lyla’s story

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THE ADVENTURE

The Surroundings

I felt my heart. It stopped, I thought. I was dizzy. My surroundings froze.

Two weeks beforeI was driving to my friend’s house. Her name is Lucy. My name is Lila.So we drove and drove until we finally got there. It was four days. It was 12.00am Midnight! I went in there and said “Hi”, went to sleep and woke up on Sunday!So I got up, ran downstairs, had breakfast and after that I went to the garden and ran to Lucy. Then something happened...

I felt my heart. It stopped, I thought. I was dizzy.Lucy was yelling. I couldn’t hear. My throat was dry. My surroundings stopped. I heard faint voices. I thought I couldn’t breath. I started spinning faster and faster. The voices grew louder and louder. I grew more dizzy by the minute.I could hear screams. It grew fainter and fainter.

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Then something happened. I felt my heart. It stopped again. Then I fell from the air and landed on sand. I saw the tide coming. I ran and ran. I saw a village, I thought. I ran near it. Then it disappeared for some reason, and then I saw a fish. It came closer and closer till it reached my feet. Then I ran and ran. I saw a village I thought,. I ran and ran and thinking that it wasn’t real, I ran past and then I heard voices coming from the village. I decided to run near the village and I ran and then it disappeared.I stopped to think.Then I remembered hearing on the news about disappearing villages. Then I realised that the tide came right up to my neck even now that I ran far away from the beach. So I ran and ran but I could only see sand.Then I saw a man with a huge battle axe. I ran nearer to him. He was fake. I kept running.The tide kept on following me.I thought up plans. I ran. Then I had an idea. I was puffing and panting. I thought my plan would work. I decided to try if I wanted to survive. So I dived through the tide. It was a very strong current. I dug a hole out of sand. I got in and covered it up but the water went through.I came up.I swam and swam until I got some breath. Now I ran and ran. The tide stopped and dried up. Now I stopped.And then it was night. I found a shelter and slept there.In the morning I heard voices faraway. I got up and ran nearer. There on their hand it said, THIEF. I ran away.I saw a person. I thought it was my friend, Lucy. She ran nearer but it was a fake.And then she felt something on her back. She got it off and then she saw her backpack. She yelled happily. She ate and drank. There was not much. She kept eating and then it ran out.She cried and then she saw a clean river on a piece of paper in her bag. She saw centipedes and ate those.She marked a spot again on her notebook.Now she kept walking.Then she saw the tide. It turned. I decided to follow it. I ran as fast as I could. I saw the tide. I ran faster and faster. I swam inside. I saw a shark. I was scared out of my life but I kept swimming. I swam and swam. I got out of the tide. It went through a dark cave. I kept running. Then I saw something lurking in the shadows. I screamed. It came closer and closer. I ran and ran through the dark cave. Things leaped at me. The tide was coming at me. The things were fierce dragons.I ran the other way. The tide grew faster than it had ever been.I ran faster and faster till the tide dried out. Sadly I was lost in the cave. I grabbed my backpack but it was gone.I saw some wood and made a fire.

Chapter TwoThe way out

The fire was burning. I slept on the sand.In the morning I woke up and saw cobblestone. The tide was coming.Quickly I blew out the fire and grabbed the wood and ran and ran. I ran straight past my backpack. I saw light. I ran nearer to it. It disappeared. I collapsed on the cobblestone.

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The tide went over her. She swam and swam. She ran and collapsed under a broken boat. She didn’t realise that it was completely broken. In the morning she realised that it was shipwrecked.Then something in her surroundings stopped. She felt her heart. It stopped she thought.She froze. She wasn’t dizzy. She felt leaves.She woke up in a hammock in a mansion. Someone said, “Hi” in a cheerful voice. “I am Professor Cupcake.Then thats when she ran out of the mansion. She went to the ocean and swam to the evil swamp. Lucy did this because she knew the Man from Somewhere. He was evil, she thought, but he could have saved her life. She was in the swamp in a day. She went to the dock and got out. She ran through the leaves but she saw a hammock. She kept running. She saw the Sand Land but it disappeared. She fell into the water. She had scratches and bites all over her.

Chapter ThreeThe New Friend

She swam through the waves and tide. She saw the Sand Land. She swam nearer to it. The tide was chasing her again. She finally got there. Then it happened again. Her surroundings froze. She went dizzy. She felt her heart. It stopped. She started spinning faster and faster. She was in the air. Now she landed in the Middle of the Ocean. She saw the tide coming. She swam without seeing it. A wave went over her. She was stranded on the beach. Then she woke up in the Sand Land.She yelled, “HELLO! ANYONE HERE?”Someone luckily heard. The person ran over to Lila and said, “Were you stranded?”“Yes.”“I’ll help you. My name is Sir Maxwell. What’s your’s?”“Mine is Lila.”“Well Lila, I will take you to my house or do you want to go on an Adventure?”“I’d love to go on an Adventure by myself.”“Ok. Bye,” and he walked away.Lucy skipped through the towns. Then she saw a tide coming. She decided to go in it but something bad happened...

Chapter FourThe Fight for Life

“HELP!!! I’M BEING ATTACKED!”No one came. She ran. Dragons ran. The dragon captain yelled, “FIGHT LILA, LINKS SERVANTS!”I ran through the tide until it became too deep. So I swam til my arms hurt. I dived under and hid. I saw the dragons fly above. I swam back. They saw me. I swam faster and faster.I finally got to the beach where I was stranded. They were still following me. Captain Dragon yelled, “SPLIT UP, SERVANTS!” They ran the other way. I saw a house, I thought and I ran to it but I was picked up by the dragons. I struggled free and landed in a lake. I swam away.

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Chapter FiveThe Thief

One week laterI was walking through the sand, when I saw the man with THIEF on his hand. I also saw a Mysterious Box so I followed him all day. At last it was Nighttime. I grabbed the box as soon as he was sleeping in the sand. I ran off!! I opened it. Inside were these eyes. I put a pair on. Nothing happened. I threw them away. I made a fire and had some centipedes. I went to sleep on the sand. It rained on me in the morning. I saw men with a sign on their hands saying THIEF.

Chapter SixRunning

I ran. They must have seen me because they were following me, I ran faster. I decided to get the Mysterious Box. Then I saw a gate and the Mysterious Box inside. I went through and I saw a boy pick it up, locked the gate. And now the men picked up the box and grabbed the gold eyes and transported them to the other side of the gate.

The Men ran at her but she ran faster.

I saw a tide coming/ I ran into it and swam. Luckily they couldn’t swim so I was safe. After an hour they went and I came out.

Chapter SevenMeanwhile...

Meanwhile at Lucy’s house Lila’s parents were singing in the garden:

Ohhh, Ohhh Lila come back todayWe’ve been waitingWe’ve been waitingFor youCome, pleaseCome pleaseWe’re here”

Chapter EightBack

I was running through the sands when a tide came over me. I could barely breather. I swam til I came to land. Sadly it was still sandy.

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Back Home

Something happened. I felt my hear. It stopped. My surroundings froze. I landed back in Lucy’s garden. I saw my parents yell in delight. I cuddled them.

Chapter TenHAPPY ENDINGBye people. Read my second book.This one is done.By Greta Lynch

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Cautious Liv

Hello friends and arch nemesis me and and my friends uncle carmen and uncle lily are going to tell you the story of how we met cautious liv.So it all started when ummmmmm “let me tell the story I was the one who stayed up all night practicing it!” said uncle carmen in rude way.“NO! Said uncle rosie.So any way where was I, oh yes it all started when we were going on a trip to Luna Park and there was no one there. There wasn’t even anyone working there! But we took it to our advantage we went right in without paying!Uncle carmen went straight for the corn dog stand but I knew where to go I went for the lolly stand it was heaven there was everything there every lolly that you could imagine!Uncle lily made the wrong choice she went for the haunted house and didn’t come out for about 50mins.But we didn’t really mind we were distracted by the goodness of food.But little did we know that we were not the only ones there.Any way when we had finished eating we went on to the rides (big Mistake we all vomited apart from uncle lily who didn’t eat anything :(Once we finished vomiting we went over to the cafe to eat more but as we were going something stopped us something cold and life less thats right it was cautious liv...We tried to run but she ran almost faster we were getting tired and uncle carmen was having an asthma attack but she kept going. we were like the furious five!And then I tripped on a log and broke my leg :(

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BUT I kept going! I was strong but not for long I tripped on a small ant and broke my other leg!It hurt it hurt bad but uncle carmen and uncle lily did not stop for me they kept going with out me ( I was not to happy about that)Ve your guts for my meal!” I started to crawl away as fast as I could but I was to slow. Cautious liv stepped on my finger I screamed then bit her on the leg she too screamed. it was my time to escape. I stood up I was weak then I took one brave step and hit the ground!Finally uncle carmen and uncle lily came and dragged me away.Uncle carmen burped loudly her breath smelt of hot nachos with a hint of avocado wait! That means they had eaten the hot avocado nachos without me!I was mad! They had messed with me. I even hand made them!But right now we had to handle cautious liv out of no where a hand grabbed a pair of crutches and ran. I ran like the wind until we got home. Then we all just passed out for about 7 days like we do. No biggy.So that is how we met cautious liv. Thank you thank you. if you feel the need to pay us for reading this then please do any way.

*THE END*

By Rosie with some help of Carmen

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Sienna and Stella - Stella and Sienna

Once upon a time there was a girl named Sienna. She lived in a mushroom house. She had a friend called Nicholas and they went on an adventure. They saw a big apple tree. They went through the forest and got lost.They couldn’t find each other.And they finally figured out a way - to wait at the rock stone pool.And they finally found each other. They held hands and went home and then they went out of their house and went for a walk. They came back home and Nicholas cooked a yummy margerita pizza.

Sienna

Once upon a time there was a princess named Stella. She lived in a castle in London. And everything she had was rainbow and her friends name was Sienna. She was also a princess too. And she lived in forest in a tree house. It was not an ordinary tree house. It was like a tree house but a castle in a tree. One day they went on an adventure to the Botanic Gardens. Since there were so much flowers, the bees liked to fly around. The princesses were very scared of bees and so they swooshed and flapped but instead they got stung. Both of them. Then Stella had an idea. She had a bottle of water and poured it on sting. And Sienna had a bottle of water too and she poured it on her sting too. They walked along and their stings started to feel better. Then they went home. Went for a little walk around the park and went home again and had some supper.The EndStella

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SAFIRE

On my dream day sunday the 27th at 2:30 am 2012. Trapped! Nothing to do and nothing to see. The people leave the window open so the smoke will come out and we escape. Me and Grace both got abandoned and sent to this prison where you are in cages with nothing to do and nothing to see. On the 27th there was a big fire and lots and lots of smoke. So they opened the window so all the smoke would come out and me and Grace left. We found a hut in the middle of the bush. Now we call that home.

{4 days later} One of the prison guards came looking for us. We jumped out of the hut and dived into one of the bushes. The prison dogs run right by us and I said “I think they’re gone.” “Shhhh Safire, I think we’ll be ok.” We got out of the bush and they had left. We had to pack our bags and find a new home.

{One week later} We are standing right next to a huge building which says MLC SCHOOL!Grace says “#$$%&*!!!!” We go inside and the principal says “Do you know where Philip is?” I say ‘yes’. So we roam the building going class to class saying “Do you know where Philip is?” and he was in one of the classes, year 12 and we had to take him to the toilet and to go eat something and Grace went mad so she said ENOUGH!!! And he pulled out a gun and said “I am going to eat something.” It took 2 hours to get him to the principle’s office and all he said was “Good job” and we went back to the 2 hours.

{2weeks later} We were sitting in one of the trees and Grace fell I said “Hide!” because one of the prison people came, and took her away . I seriously thought she was gone for ever.

CHAPTER 2.I followed the car tracks and it led me to an old house. She was screaming. I ran into one of the rooms and there she was and they were about to shoot her but I said “NO! STOP! DON’T DO ANYTHING! Please she’s my only friend and I’ve never seen my mum or dad.”“Why would I care. She ran away.”“And so did I.”“Guess what my name is... Philip.” he said as he shot Grace in the leg and left.“Grace, Grace. Are you ok?” I said as I ran to get her a bandage. But when I came back she was asleep. I put the bandage on her, she squeaked a bit. I woke her up and took her to a different place called London. Some people called Lucas and Jane have adopted us.

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The Robot and the Dog

The robot and his dog were playing in their house. They lived in a castle. It was summertime, as it became winter they didn’t collect enough oil to keep themselves going.They went down to the petrol station to find som e oil, but there wasn’t any oil there. They saw a car in the distance, so they walked over to it. The car was broken down. The robot got some oil out of the engine.They went back home and had pizza for dinner.

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Fred and the Zombie - Max Braund

My character is a zombie called Fred. He lives on planet 64. His friend is a flying insect with 4 wings and it has a stinger.My mission is to blow up planet earth because there was a terrible catastrophe. The catastrophe was humans were planning to blow up planet Dearth. They were also trying to shoot zombies until they were dead.That was because then they would blow up planet dearth so that the zombies would not respawn.I fix the problem by summoning a horde of zombie warriors to outwit the humans.We succeeded by placing a bomb in the middle of planet earth and by racing away to planet dearth in a rocket. When we got inside planet dearth’s atmosphere, by jet packing down to the ground, we had a celebration! I had stir fry for dinner.My friend the flying insect had a bowl of apple pie.

The EndMax

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Asher Brady and Plum Talbot

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There was an old mule Who was challenged to a duel.And with all his might he failed. For the next three nights he wailed and wailed.

Poem about the chocolate fish he bought me! There was once a Murray River Cod Who was quite a bit of a sod. He was covered in gold And spoke of the old That snobbish gold river cod.

Writing to go with the picture It's just a picture.Trees sway delicately in the breeze.I am going to have to refine this picture a bit more.

It's just a picture.There is only sky around it. I wonder where the eraser is? It's just a pictureAir balloon away to anywhereNheeeeeeeee........CRASH!

William Golding

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Cat and Mouse

Once upon a time the cat was going to catch a mouse but the cat was disappointed.A mouse scurried past and the cat caught it but the cat skipped it and ate sushi instead.

Arkie Klotz

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The Firefighter and the Paramedic

A firefighter and a paramedic were walking and he saw a fire and he called the firefighter. The firefighter saw a robber. The police came and a saw a person stuck on a mountain. The police called the mountain rescue. They all went home.

Griffin

Elliott Lusted

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O goes to Japan, M goes to Singapore - Meier Bram and Oliver Addison

O&goes&to&Japan,&M&goes&to&Singapore.

“Hello”'said'O

“Hello”'said'M

“What’s'one'plus'one?”'said'O

“Three'hundred.”'replied'M

O'said,'“I'think'it'is'four'billion,'three'thousand,'nine'hundred'and'forty'eight.”

M'said,'“errrr,'what'does'one'mean?”

O'and'M'were'in'America.

O'said,'“but'I'want'to'be'in'Japan.”

And'then'M'said,'“ooohhh,'what'does'Japan'mean?”

And'then'O'said,'“I'don’t'know,'I'was'asking'you.”

“eeeeerrrrriiiyyyrr,'what'does'asking'mean?”'said'Meier.

M'and'O'were'siEng'in'a'talk'show.

And'then'M'said,'“zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.”

M'had'fallen'asleep.'O'whacked'M'with'an'imaginary'sword.'M'wouldn’t'wake'up.'O'got'a'water'hose'and'

sent'streams'of'water'on'M.'M'woke'up'and'said'“zzzzzz,'oh'G'I'am'not'a'plant.There’s'a'plant'over'there.”'

He'pointed'at'a'film'editor'on'the'set'of'the'talk'show.

O'said,'“Oh,'okay,'I’ll'do'it'on'him”.'O'turned'the'hose'from'M'to'the'film'editor.

The'film'editor'said,'“*%$#@%^$!!?”

The'film'editor'went'to'jail'for'swearing'on'television.

M'said'“ha'ha.”

O'said'“I'am'going'to'Japan.”

M'said'“I'am'going'to'Singapore'because'I'want'to'sing'to'the'poor'in'Singapore.”

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25'Beauty'and'the'Beast'G'Annabel'Govenlock

Beauty and the BeastOnce a boy goes to the castle where the beast lives. There were roses but there was also a beast.'Nobody can pick my roses!'Soon after that though they became friends. They played chess on the biggest chess board in the world! Soon after that they got married and became parents. The baby was called Elambriss. Suddenly a dragon (big and mean) burnt and beat him! After that they rebuilt the castle and they lived happily ever after.

Annabel Govenlock

The Hobbit - Hephzibah Fraser

Hi. I'm going to tell you the story of the Hobbit.

Once upon a time a dragon called Bob and a bat called Flap were friends with another dragon called Bilbo Baggins. All the friends were going out for ice-cream. Bob got mint, flap got chocolate and Bilbo Baggins got rainbow ice-cream. 'Yum,' said Bob,'I love mint!'

Hephzibar

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Daisy Lloyd - A Little Poem

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Hudson’s Slender Man series

Zac and Zill’s Adventure

Once a upon time, there was a man who lived in the woods. His name was Slender. He was very sad because he could never leave the woods.

One day a boy and a girl named Zak and Zill went into the woods looking for treasure. Slender saw them. So he teleported over to them and said, “Welcome to my lair. There is no leaving once you come in.”The two kids started to run but they could’t escape.When Slender Man chased them he fell through the invisible dome that was trapping them and it broke. The kids escaped.

hey were running home. On the way they meet a banana dressed up in a doctors suit.The banana man said, “Run, run kids. Follow me. Quickly.”

They went into this weird shack. Inside Sausage Cowboy and Hairbrain were playing chess. Sausage Cowboy said, “We need to go find the military.”

On the way they meet Annoying Orange playing football. They finally found the military but it was all blown up by a nuke. Only two people survived. They were Batman and Iron Man.

Suddenly the Creeper army came and they had a big, big fight. Annoying Orange kept saying, “Nah, nah,nah.”

Twenty weeks later, Slender came out looking for Zac and Zill. Annoying Orange squirted juice in Slender Man’s eyes and Sausage Cowboy shot him with hotdogs.

“They figured my weakness,” said Slender Man. “Sausages!”

THE END

slender man number 2!! To be continued...

There was this man, He wasn’t like a normal being because he was a weird ancient person. his head was an ancient yin yang and he had three other friends, one of them was Yoda and one of his friends were dead. He was the Dead toilet. The other one was not like the other two, revenge, his name was creeper. on the good side, there was mr sausage cowboy, there was hero robot and the captain of the good side was dr banana and the last friend was retarded batman. they went on an adventure in the retarded batman’s motor-bill. but the enemy took his yodabill.

then they both crashed on the same island. Batman and yoda both threw knives up in the air. when they crashed on the island, there were two people that were on the island but when the knives came down and it hit both of the old people on each side.

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they head off to look for food, but then they realized, they could eat sausage cowboy and in a couple of minutes later, sausage was nothing but a hat!

but the enemy side didn’t have any food so they brought the toilet along and got thirsty. when they got thirsty, they had to drink the pee water. the creeper said, “why don’t i just murder myself right now?” but then creeper got flushed down the toilet!

the next day, they were looking for food to survive but the good side found the enemy, they had a big fight. then who stopped the fight was mr rude finger head. he put his rude finger head at everybody, but then yoda was like “go cut his rude finger off!”. so the yin yang was like “why can’t we just put the rude finger at the good side”. but yoda said “i disagree, now we will kill you yin yang”. but there was toilet next to him and the creeper popped out and blew up the yoda. dr banana said “we need to make a teleport” but they never did. 40 weeks later, the only survivors left were the yin yang and the batman. they became friends.

but batman had a secret, when they were walking together, he had a bat boomerang and threw it at the yin yangs head.

the end lol

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Shoes and socks

Shoes and socks go together. They keep you warm in the winter weather. Until summer comes and you get hot and take your socks off. Shoes and socks.

THE END

by Stella and Eve

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The day the farm flooded - Tilda George-Murphy

Sometime last year we were at the beach for a rainy two weeks. When we got back to the farm and went down to the river to check that everything was ok, it wasn’t; the river had flooded.

I looked to see where all the sheep had gone and they were stranded on a little island surrounded by water. When I looked at the river, it was almost up to the tops of the trees. I just kept gazing at how high the water was, and when I notice that there was someone in a wrecked canoe stuck in the tree. “Mum, Dad, look there is someone in that tree,” I said loudly. Dad called up to him. He said he had been stuck up there for hours and had been yelling for help.

Dad called the SES to get the man in the tree down. “Luckily we had come home,” I thought to myself.

We had to talk to him for hours until the SES came. I was thinking about the man in the tree and why was he out on the river when it was so dangerous; I think he must have been a maniac. As I was thinking that and looking at how fast the river was flowing, out of the blue, a big, round hay bale with two rabbits on it came sailing down the river; I thought that was an hilarious sight.

I went near where the sheep were stranded. Mum and Dad were standing there too. From me to the sheep was like 10 meters. I put a long stick in the water to see how deep it was and I reckon it would have been three times my height! Then dad said, “I think we might have to get a boat or something like that to get the sheep back onto the normal grass.” While all this was going on, if you listened closely you could here frogs croaking in the wet grass.

The SES finally came and got a boat out, and the man had to jump into the boat. When they got back to the grass the man looked traumatised. Then we asked the SES if the could use that boat to rescue the sheep, which they did over several trips in the boat; I also thought that this was hilarious.

The canoe man and the SES were going to go so we said goodbye and the man that was stuck in the tree said a big thank you. We watched them drive off and then they stopped. We wondered what they were doing so we started to walk up to them. Dad thought that maybe they were bogged

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(if you don’t know what bogged is it is when a car or something with wheels gets stuck in mud) and when we got to them I thought to myself, “Dad was right”.

So Dad and me walked up to the shed where the tractor is and drove it back down to where the SES was. It took hours for us to pull them out but we eventualley we did. In the end it was a pretty eventful day!

The EndBy Tilda George-Murphy

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Ben

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Jakob and Samson - Miranda Routt

Chapter 1 - New Friends

I felt myself wake up. Were was I? In my own bed. “Jakob! Mary!” My mum was calling for me and my sister.“Coming!” I called.I rushed downstairs for my breakfast. After I’d finished, I went outside only to find another boy moving in! I was frightened! I was only seven, and to find a new boy moving in when I was only seven was nothing less than frightening! He might be older than me, or younger. I had no idea. But still it was frightening. I ran back to the house to tell mum but she wasn’t there. Is this a dream? I must be. So I went back to bed, but I couldn’t sleep. I just had to do this. I ran back outside and through the front gate. I heard talking from through the bush. It was Mum and Mary! I ran through the gate and saw a boy about my age! Seven The boy saw me. He ran up to me and greeted me.“Hello,” he said. My name is Samson. What’s your name?”“My name is Jakob,” I said, hesitantly. For a while there was silence between both of us. Then Samson said, “Do you wanna see my house?”I said, “Sure.”So we went inside.

Chapter 2

“This is my lounge room. This is my kitchen.”“Nice house,” I said.We thought for a while.Then I said, “How about we make a club. An adventure club.”“Okay,” Samson said.We decided that in the club we would explore the world bit by bit without telling their Mums or Dads.On Monday, Samson and I went to school The school was called...Um... ... ... I’ve forgotten ...Well anyway, you can only start going to school when you are seven. Well... And on a Monday.At school we made lots of friends. Well because there were mainly boys. When we went home that day, we started doing our club. Many days we gone. Our Mums and Dads were worried about us but one day something bad happened. We were in a forest hunting, but them we got lost. Well luckily, as we thought, we saw a house. But when we got closer, we saw that the house had vines growing on it. But I thought it best to go in and at least check it out. So we went in. It was ghastly, ghostly, whatever! Scary. But still we went on to the bed to rest.

Chapter 3The Saviour

I was so tired that I fell asleep. When I woke up it was late in the night, Maybe midnight. It was then that I heard it. I heard spooky noises,s that sounded like ghosts. So we ran

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out of the house and found a tree. Very soon a glowing creature came up to us. I was scared still but Samson walked up to it.“What are you? He asked it.“I..am..your..savior.”“What are you here for?”“To...bring...you...home...”“Okay! Do we hop on your back?”“Yes please.”So we climbed on to the Saviour’s back. In a wink of an eye, we were back in my back garden.“O don’t think we should do that club again.”“No, we shouldn’t.”“Well I don’t think the Saviour will be there all the time.”So we never did the club again.

The End

Miranda Routt

NOTE!Please read all of my books if you enjoyed this one.

Book 2 - Time for Boarding School

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Seb Forsyth

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The Forest - Taigh O’Donnell-Young

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All the Colours of the Rainbow

Black and white. Black and white is all I’ve ever seen. We’ve been waiting for the day that I’ll be able to see colour. When I say WE I mean my parents and me.

Colour is all I’ve ever wished for.The doctors say that one day I’ll be able to see colour but from now on I’ll just have to keep on living in a black and white newspaper like world.

School is hard for me. None of the students respect me and the teachers just think I’m a waste of time.

This is my story.

The minute I walked into school for the first time I knew that I was going to be bullied. As I got older it only got worse. “Hey you, what colour is this twig? Oh right I forgot. You’re colour blind.” said one of the bullies. I would spend my lunch times watching the cars go by the fence.

When I got home from school mum would always ask me the same question. “How was school?” and I would always reply. “Good.” We both knew I wasn’t telling the truth but my mum liked hearing the answer anyway. Every night I would cry myself to sleep and dream about colours and what they would look like.

One night I woke up and everything had changed. Instead of seeing black and white I could see something else. “MUM!!!” I yelled as I ran into her room. “What is it?”“I’m seeing something that’s not just black and white.”

In the morning mum took me to the doctors. The doctor asked me what I had seen and I told him that my teddy bear had been a different colour. He showed me a bear he had in his office. “What colour do you see this bear in?” “A similar colour to black, but not quite.” I replied. Then the doctor asked my mum. “Is his bear at home brown?” “Yes” my mother replied with a grin on her face. Then the doctor said. “You are having visions. Soon you will be able to see colour completely.

Weeks past by and the doctor was right. I have full vision of colour now.

At school I’m treated much better. The teachers don’t think I’m such a waste of time and I have a couple of best friends.

THE ENDWritten by Amelie Justin and Tilda George-Murphy!

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Mr. And Mrs. Perry’s Adventure - Ebony Campese and Acorn Holmes a Court

Chapter'1'G'Meet'the'Perry’s

Long,'long'ago'there'lived'a'pig'called'Gumleaf'and'a'Penguin'called'Do\y.'They'lived'in'a'co\age'by'a'lake.'

Gumleaf'and'Do\y'loved'their'house'sooooo'much.'Gumleaf'and'Do\y'also'have'a'pet,'a'pet''baby'dog'

named'Jewel.'They'loved'her'so'much.

Chapter'2'–'The'Adventure

One'day'when'Gumleaf','Do\y'and'Jewel'were'having'breakfast'they'all'heard'a'knock'at'the'door.'

Gumleaf'went'to'open'it.When'he'opened'it'there'was'a'dude'standing'there.'He'looked'like'a'spy.'The'

dude'said:'“I'have'a'mission'for'you.'I'want'you'to'go'to'the'river'past'the'animal'and'get'the'gold'and'be'

done'by'dawn'tomorrow.”

Do\y'and'Gumleaf'were'in'shock'for'about'50'seconds!'They'did'not'move''but'a`er'that'they'were'fine.'

They'thought'about'where'they'would'go.'A`er'a'while….

To'be'conbnued….

Doggy'and'Miss'Bird’s'Adventure

By'Imogen'Welsh

Doggy'lives'in'a'toadstool'house'and'Doggy’s'friend'is'Miss'Bird.'They'love'to'go'to'the'pool'and'they'were'

on'their'way'to'the'pool'when'Doggy'fell'into'a'li\le'hole'underground.'Miss'Bird,'who'was'flying'didn’t'fall'

in'but'rescued'Doggy.'And'then'they'made'their'way'to'the'pool'and'there'were'no'more'holes'in'the'

ground.

When'they'got'to'the'pool,'Doggy'leapt'off'the'diving'board'and'Miss'Bird'yelled,'“Hurry'up”'because'she'

thought'Doggy'was'taking'too'long.'And'then'they'made'their'way'over'to'…

To'be'conbnued….

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The World

The trees in the breeze are so beautifulThe flowers in the sun are like fairiesThe dandelions in the wind are like little lionsThe leaves are flying like kites.

The world goes by like racing carsThe waves come rushing up and down the beachThe world is prettyThe world is smartThe world is everything you always find outWhat you need to knowBefore this poem comes to an end I must tell youAll one thingAnd that is.......

Good luck!!!Lucia

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Ghost eating brains

Once upon a time there lived a boy. His name was Pinecone. Pinecone was in a deep Powic Forest. Then he saw a faint light. He saw something moving. Then he saw something coming towards him. It was getting louder and louder. It was a GHOST! The ghost came closer and closer and finally it was so close it was about to eat his brains! Pinecone had turned into a zombie! Then the ghost ate everyone's brains in the whole world. Everyone was a zombie! But the animals wanted zombies and the animals still had brains. But then zombies ate the animals brains! It was a disaster! How would they get out of this mess? But the bug’s brains weren't gone. The bugs were still alive. But then an animal ate a fly's brain and the zombie fly ate all the bugs brains but the birds were still alive and the birds still had their brains! Then an animal ate the pigeon's brain and then the pigeon at all the bird's brains! But the reptiles still had their brains but then a person ate a Komodo dragon's brain and then the Komodo dragon ate the reptiles brains!

The end by Orson Brady

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THE LOST DIAMOND

One dark and gloomy night Vellinina stood holding her wolf in her arms. They were in their tree house home, wondering if the haunted tree that their tree house was in would suck

them up into the Land of Terror!!!They really wanted to go. They were on a quest to find the Lost Diamond of the Land of Terror. There were nine other ones that they had to find:The OpalThe Amethyst The Moon StoneThe QuartzThe RubyAnd Four Tumble Stones.

The Land of Terror had a lot of terrible places like the Cave of the Dead, The School of Stone Statues, and every scary place. This time they had to find the first gem : The Diamond.Suddenly the Tree house started to shake.“Here we go!” shouted Vellinina. They were whisked away!!!They landed in a cave.“I think we are in the Cave of the Dead,” said Vellinina.“Woof, Woof, Woof!” agreed Fangs.They were both thinking the same thing:“Let’s Get Going!!!!”“Where do you think the Diamond is?” sighed Vellinina. “And I hope Sonia’s around. I really like her cottage.Suddenly as if the Zomies had read her mind, Sonia appeared out of think air.“Woof, Woof, Woof,” said Fangs in surprise.“Hi Sonia,” said Vellinina. “Have you any idea where the Diamond is?”“Well I actualley found some evidence,” said Sonia.“Great! What was it?” shouted Vellinina.“Well, I found a piece of paper behind my wardrobe and it said:YOU GET OUT OF THIS TOWN, YOU FILTHY TRAITOR OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!!“Oh no,” said Vellinina. “What are we to do?”“I don’t know, but we better get out of here, as the note said. We will regret it if we don’t!” said Sonia.

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They started off to the North.“I think we are heading towards the House of Griffins,” said Vellinina.“Woof! Woof! Woof!” said Fangs warningly.The girls turned.It was Dragon!!!“Run for your life!!!!!” yelled Sonia.

....to be continued

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The Metal Man

If you were wailing for help, would you be saved? If you were screaming and running, would you be rescued? No well, this is the voice of Matilda. The metal man. Matilda is the only one of her kind. Her unloving mum and dad, Mary and Gus, had treated her like sick, and what Matilda referred to as sick. Matilda's only friends were her mechanical dogs, Bolt, Spanner and Screw. When Matilda was a baby, she thought she could never be happier, but that all changed when they became rich and her parents were too busy thinking about themselves and forgot about her.

Grace Lee

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Mr. Jelly

Once upon a time there was an alien named Mr.Jelly. He was a jelly alien. He lived in a jelly craft on Planet Jelly! Planet Jelly looked mostly like Earth,.....but it was made of jelly. He was really good friends with his cousin, Blobby Bobby. Blobby Bobby was shaped like a cube, with jelly fingers and jelly hair that sprung up like spaghetti or springs. Together they liked to have jumping contests, but Blobby Bobby always won! Their mission was to go to planet Slime and get slimy crystal!

But the problem was that their jelly craft broke! But, suddenly it all came back together because it was in space and there was anti-gravity and it floated all back together. Blobby Bobby jumped on it and it stuck back together. Eventually they got to Planet Slime and had some slime and jelly in the shape of humans.

Harley Lucas

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Jack and the Bean Stalk

Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack who had to sell the cow only to get some beans. When he got home his mother chucked the beans out the window and a big bean stalk grew. They could see a maze and a hen house with golden chickens.

Oscar Wilson and Orlando DiCiero

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DYNO TOPIAOnce in a far away land there were dinosaurs. The Lord of the dinosaurs was the Great Tyrannosaurus Rex also Lord of the Carnivores. There was also the Lord of the Herbivores and that lord was the Great Brontosaurus.

The two lords had a destructive war, they called the war The War of The Cobra! They called it that because there was a cobra inside the war.While the war was happening there were some meteorites and lightening hitting the dinosaurs. Some of the dinosaurs survived the meteorites but they didn’t survive the lightening.

The carnivores had eye protectors so their eyes didn’t get hurt. The ones that survived the lightening evolved into birds and they had a good time being birds. The Tyrannosaurus Rex got electrocuted and died. The cobra in the war survived and slid away all by himself.

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The'End

Lyla'Brown

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Sangar

Prologue

In the mountain of Puma the Dark Lord Sangar created a beast so venomous and armoured that no one could stand the power of it.

A young prince lived in a big big castle with a father and a mother. He was very happy until Sangar sent his evil armoured giant snake to the Palace. That day the king sent an army to fight back at the evil beast. But their swords were too little to fight the armour of the snake. The prince then tried to get the beast in the eye, but the eye was protected by an invisible scale. The battle went for many days.The monster snake kept dodging arrows from coming inside it.The king kept sending more soldiers out to fight the monster but they were wasted because the scales of the snake were as hard as titanium.

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The snake without warning spat two streams of burning acid. It turned one of the castle watchtowers into molten rock. It got closer and closer to the castle itself. And then it blew hot fire at 20 horses. There was no escape.Then just out of the corner of the princes eye, he saw an army of goblins and swamp guards. They were fully armoured, like no gaps at all.Without knowing, the prince got picked up by the burning tongue of the giant snake. It burned his pants off and his undies were showing beneath the tongue. It flung him up in the air and he dropped but he just missed the mouth of the monster. He fell down in a crash but he realised he was not on the ground! He was on a goblin’s horse. And he said, ‘Oh poop!”He quickly jumped off and tiptoed under the horses tummies. But one of the horses got knocked on the tummy. The swamp guard just thought he saw another horse and he said, “Oh! Just another horse.” but it was time for the evil army to charge. They charged directly at the castle gates.Then the army of soldiers came out of the castle gates with the horses. The soldier’s horses were white and had helmets and the generals horse had a gold helmet and it had a strap going under its chin.But the goblins had big black yaks with small red eyes and armoured heads that covered the whole head and tough legs.The armies crashed together and one of the yaks accidentally bumped one of the horse’s head armour and the goblin flew up so high into the air until he went into the giant’s snakes mouth and he was burnt to a crisp. And the giant snake spat it out of its nose and sneezed! The crisp was nothing but as small as an ant.One of the soldiers had bare feet and stepped on the crisp and jumped right up in the air! Saying, “Mummy!” and there was no more foot left and he ran away with his hands on his horses tail, with his head going up and down, and he said, “Oh.... oof! Not... Oof

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...to'be'conbnued

Elkan'Brady

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A Random Story

This random story starts with a little boy named Bob.Bob lived with his Daddy, Mummy and some random street cat, MEOW.Bob went to Pizza School to become ORANGE JUICE Because his Grandfather’s Mother’s Brother’s Best Friend’sCousin’s Mum was a ORANGE JUICE!One day Bob went to school he saw a dog eating a fire hydrant. He went to the dog and asked him why he was doing that. “I am doing this because I am thirsty” says the dog. “Why are you eating it then?” replies Bob. “So the water comes out,” answers the dog.“Why are you eating it then?” asked Bob.“I just told you why” shouts the dog.“Why are you eating it, then?” asked Bob.“BOY, SHUT UP!” screams the dog.“Why are you eating it, then?” asked Bob.“I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE” screams and shouts and let it all out! the dog.Then the dog EXPLODES!!! “I guess that’s what they call a HOT DOG” says Bob.Bob arrives at school to see that someone drank all the ORANGE JUICE! “NOOOOO WHAT SICK POOP DOES THAT” screams Bob. Bob then begins to walk around the school looking for any orange juice! Then Bob stumbles across a suspicious moving bag in the middle of the school. Bob opens it and finds a live bottle of Chocolate! “What the...?”

Seb Xipolitou

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Anja’s story

Chapter 1

It jumped and attacked me.......

It ran away when a gun fire shot in a different direction. I was slowly passing away and I saw a man running towards me then my vision went blank. I woke up about a month later in a hospital. The same man walked up to me and said “That was close you are lucky to be alive.”“Wait what I almost died?”“Yes you were attacked by something the cops are still trying to investigate what attacked you! Oh and here is a letter it may come as a bit of a shock to you.”

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I open the wax seal that was on the back of the envelope. I start reading the letter and after a while I start crying........ Mum and Dad passed away from a car accident......

The pain of losing someone in your family is unbearable but losing two at the same time! It’s just not fair!I feel like running away but I have no where to go. I don’t know what to do anymore and I don’t want to go to an orphanage with greedy little girls or with greedy parents if I get another family. I try to get up but I can’t. It hurts too much. The thing that attacked me had almost ripped off my leg! “Yeah you were pretty damaged when I found you laying on the ground. The doctor said you can’t walk for five weeks.”Five weeks! I thought. It seems like such a long time. The nurse came in. “Oh you’re awake now..... It was a long time for you to wake up. Here, I’ll get you some pain killers from the cupboard.”She goes out of the room and about 2 minutes later she is carrying a tray with a jug of water, a glass and 2 pain killer pills.

“I hope you can swallow pills.”I nod my head and pour a glass of water I then pick up one pain killer and swallow and then do the same with the other.I start to fell a bit better after the pain killers have worked but I still can’t move my leg.I wish that none of this ever happened. I wish my parents were still alive and I never was attacked by that thing! I’m feeling really stressed. The nurse asked if I wanted to have happy gas, but I declined the offer. I don’t want to look weak even though it hurts so bad. I really want to look at the wound but I am not allowed to because I might puke.To be honest I am quite upset that no one has come to see if I’m alright. You know, I was just in a serious situation and my parents died. I think that is not nice at all. Anyway the man who was beside me said “It was probably a bear who attacked you..... there are lots in that neighborhood at mid afternoon.” “Yeah you’re right there are lots of them around.” I close my eyes and hoping to fall asleep. When I am half asleep I hear the man walk off clonking his feet on the floorboards as he goes further and further down the hallway. It quieted down until you couldn’t hear a sound. I finally fall asleep. The next day I am woken up by nurses shaking me to get me up.“Would you like some breakfast?” asked one of the nurses.“Yes please.”“We have cereal or porridge, which one?”“Cereal please.” The two nurses went away down the hallway and headed for the kitchen. I hear the clonking again from the man who rescued me about a month ago. “So how’s your leg?”“Well you know..... Painful.”

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“Of course, of course. So I didn’t properly introduce myself. My name is Frank and you are?”“Autumn.” Before anyone could say anything the nurses came in and gave me some cereal and a jug of water with an empty glass next to it. I start eating when something went flashing through my mind. Something that I can’t explain. I shake it out of my mind and keep on eating, but it happens again and this time it seems a bit more clear. I can almost see a strange figure but I don’t know what it is.The nurse asks if I’m alright. I look down at the cereal. I have spilt it all other myself.I feel embarrassed. Everyone in the room is now staring at me. But what was that I saw?Should I tell anyone about it? I don’t know. I feel light headed........ I fall back and get a concussion. I have been transported into some sort of world, where the ground is rolling back and fourth and back and fourth and back and fourth. I am trying to catch my balance but trip over my own feet and land face first into the hard cracked ground. Right at that moment I hear the ground behind me starting to break. I look behind my left shoulder and widen my eyes. I am right! The ground is breaking. I get up as quickly as I can trying to catch my balance but I fall into the dark misty earth.....

I hear a pounding and wake in shock. It is storming outside with hail bucketing down in the night sky. I see the figure again and sit-up. It just stands there motionless, not thinking about anything. After the storm has passed it runs away. Am I supposed to follow? I thought. It doesn’t come back to make me follow it so I just lay down.

Chapter 2

Five weeks later I am let out of the hospital. I have to walk on crutches and I have to have 2 pain killers each day until it gets better. Every now and then the nurse calls me to make sure I’m OK.I've been thinking about going back to the forest were I got attacked to find out what that thing is. I still can’t wait for the results from the scientist’s to see what it was. By the time Frank and I got to the orphanage it was 5:30pm and that was the same time I was attacked. When I took the first step into the orphanage I was blown away by all the whining and screaming there.“Well here’s your new home. Now I will sign you in and I will come back and visit so you don’t feel lonely.”“Okay.” I go up with Frank and a tour guide shows me my room and who my room-mate is. My room-mate is not in the room so I just start unpacking my suitcase I got when I was looking at my house. I put all of my stuff in a empty drawer and I found something in a secret pocket of my suitcase.

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Dear Sweetie,

Have a safe trip around the world with your auntie. Be nice to your cousins and have a safe trip!

Love Mummy.Xxx

OMG! I remember this I went there when I was 6. Tear drops dampen the paper and a little bit of ink smudged. I went to the bed. It was already made. I drop on to it and sigh. I slowly shut my eyes and it is pitch black. I was shocked by a noise coming beside me. I open my eyes and saw my room-mate on her bed playing on her laptop.

“Hi.” She turned her head and and looked at me strangely and kept on playing. Is that my room mate? I think to my-self, She is very self centered. I get up and look through the window. It is a very lovely view but ...Oh no!! Something flashed through my mind again. I went downstairs to meet some other kids. When I go through the crowd of kids everyone was saying, “OMG! You are the girl who was very lucky to survive.!” It was kind of weird but funny in a way. Anyway...”Wait! What? I was in a newspaper?!!? I didn’t even know?!?!”

A few weeks later I hear a car door shut and everyone was racing like a car has raced through a stop light to get to the other side! I push through everyone to get to the front and I see a couple coming in. I go back upstairs and see that my room mate is gone. I shrug and lie down on my bed. BLINGGGG. I look at the laptop. She has a message from someone. I get up and look at it. The message is from someone called Sky. I shouldn’t be looking at someone’s private message. I put it down and when I did, the lady from the front desk said, “Someone is here for you.” I went as fast as I could on my crutches and almost fell and when I got down, the couple said, “Hi Autumn, we are your new parents.”I looked in shock. Why would they choose me? There are over 100 girls here but they chose me?“Oh. Hi. Ummmmm. This is kind of sudden. I don’t know what to do.”“Just go up stairs and pack, okay?” said the lady who works at the front desk. I go up again and pack. This is sudden. I mean, I haven’t met my room mate or some other girls and I have only been here for a few weeks.

“I’m ready.”“Oh good. Here. Let me help you get into the car, sweetie.”Sweetie?! That’s what my mum called me when I was little.

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Before I could step into the car, I saw blue and red lights coming into the driveway of the orphanage. It was the scientists coming to tell me what attacked me.“Miss...Raven?”“y-y-yes?”“Hi. We got here as soon as we could....We found out what attacked you. It’s here in this folder.”“Thanks.”“Okay. I need a word with your new parents for a sec.”

I open the folder and take out what was in it. I realised what it was...It was a wolf attack? What? There are no wolves in this part of town.

That very night my room is empty...nothing. I see the grey figure but this time I walk up to it and it starts talking.“Run.... Sweetie Run!!!”I see others appear and I notice that these are not any strangers. This is the family I grew up in....To Be Continued.....by Anja Margach:)

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Louis and Ziggy

The Mysterious Holly

There was once an ordinary squid called Holly. But one stormy night Holly mutated. And from that day on the mutant squid was called The Mysterious Holly!When Holly mutated, she got addicted to toxic waste. Once when she was eating toxic waste, she met a Little Nugget that ate toxic waste as well.The Mysterious Holly was very greedy and at first they had a fight but after they became friends they shared the toxic food.They started their quest to find more toxic waste but in the middle of the quest they found Healthy Food! They were disgusted. They didn’t know what to do.Then the Little Nugget had an idea. They could throw toxic stuff on the Healthy food and turn it into more toxic stuff.“Great?” said the Little Nugget.So off they went to the toxic food.“Yum!” said Holly.They found what they were looking for. Their Toxic Dinner!

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The Luck Dragon

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Ezra’s Story

PART ONEI woke up and got dressed. I put a knife in my pocket to make sure nothing hurt me. I grabbed some tictacs and walked out the door with a bang. I started to walk somewhere that I completely did not know. Suddenly I tripped on a skateboard type thing but it didn’t have any wheels. It was hovering. I stepped on it but it did not fall to the ground. I leaned a tiny bit forward and I went speeding through the streets at the speed of light.I jumped off the skateboard thing and looked at it. It said Hoverboard. I picked it up and went home. When I got home I placed it on the kitchen table and went down to my secret underground laboratory. When I got there, I placed the Hoverboard in a safe and went back up to my house.DING DONG!!“Who are you?” I said.“We are from Hell!” someone said.“What the hell,” I said.Suddenly the door fell down. I grabbed the pistol that was under my pillow and ran towards the door. I saw three cloaked figures walking towards me armed with machine guns. I shot them but they didn’t die. They just kept on walking towards me. Then they shot. I got hit in the arm. Blood dripped and I fell. I raged at them, but when I touched them, they disappeared.“Who the hell were they?” I said to myself. I walked back into the room and placed my gun on my bed. I sat down and thought about what I had just seen. Then I had an idea. I walked to the kitchen and climbed on to the table. I fell so fast and landed. I walked up to the safe where I put the Hoverboard and unlocked it. I took the Hoverboard out of the safe and took a watch just in case. I went back up to my house on the Table Lift and walked out the door with a slam.

PART TWOI hovered through the streets trying to get as far away from home that I ever have. It was about midnight right now and no one was awake. I looked up at the sky. It was pure black. Not a star was in the sky.Then there was a glow and then lasers started firing at me.“AHHHHHHHHH!!!” I screamed.I raced through the streets on my Hoverboard. Whoever was shooting those lasers was setting the whole city on fire. Then I got grabbed by a claw and got pulled up. I hit solid ground. I was I a helicopter. I raised my watch and tapped it. A machine gun showed in my hands and I decided to investigate. I tried to walk but the meal hand was trapping me and I couldn’t walk.“Darn!” I said.I sat down and shot the machine gun but all the walls were bullet proof.I waited there for ages. It felt like five days and I was so hungry I couldn’t sleep. Then suddenly I heard footsteps. I aimed my gun but I did not expect what I saw. I saw a person with a green skin suit on and it had laser guns. I froze and dropped my gun. It clattered on to the floor. But they didn’t kill me. They just said two words.“Drown or burn.”

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The Lightening MagicPart One

Once in 1510 there was a boy. The boy was named Liam. Liam’s father was a blacksmith. When Liam was five his father died of a heart attack. In the kingdom of Malga something sad happened. When the royal prince was two, he was kidnapped. When Liam was eleven he set out on an adventure to get the lightning magic to save the world from an evil immortal monster which could only be killed by the lightning magic. So Liam made a bow and arrow and sword and set out with his cousin whose name was Massimo. There were five pieces of lightning magic. They started in Galogca and found the first piece of the lightning magic. Then they went by horse to Galosh. Then they found a dragon guarding another piece. Massimo got smashed in the ha with the dragon’s claw and died. In anger Liam shot the dragon in the eye and killed it.Then he went to Malga and searched in the Never ending Mine and found a dragon guarding the next place. Tiredly Liam put an arrow in his bow and shot the dragon. The dragon didn’t die and with his claw cut off Liam’s finger. In rage Liam shot the dragon in the head and that was the end of the dragon.Then Liam got a horse and rode to the city of Milak and got attacked by a band of bandits. He shot until all of his arrows were spent and there were no rocks in sight. Mator, the water and the war god of Galogca took pity and rained down rocks from above. With the rocks Liam killed the rest of the bandits. In joy he set on to the lightning peak. He saw a bridge which was guarded by a dragon and maiden’s bones. In rage Liam shot an arrow to the dragon’s throat but what he didn’t know was that the dragon was the scout of the immortal monsters. When Liam found out he ran away as fast as his legs would carry him. Presently he found a village and the kind maiden’s got him some food and let him rest for the night. The next day he got back on his horse and rode to the lightning peak. He rested for a day and a half. The next day he climbed the mountain and to his horror the piece wasn’t there. He climbed down the mountain until a dragon breathed fire around him. He shot the dragon in the throat, again to his horror it was another immortal dragon. He slid under the dragon’s leg and found a piece and he said, “I need one more piece!”He found a cave in the mountain and found the last piece and put them together and struck the dragon. The dragon died.

In joy he rode to the nearest village and made good friends with a boy there. The boy helped him on his mission to defeat the immortal monsters. He rode into where the dragon that guarded the bridge was and struck the dragon. The dragon fell dead on top of his friend. And his friend died.In rage he ran to where the army of the dragon was and struck the first line of dragons. The dragon who was leading the army, with his claw cut off one of Liam’s fingers. In pain he ran away from the army and got a good night’s sleep in the village where he had met the boy. Mator took pity on Liam and rained down big heavy rocks on the dragon. In Liam’s head he heard a voice say, “I am your father!”It was Mator’s voice. In the end he appeared, this huge man who said, “I am Mator, your father!”The rocks killed quite a lot of the monsters.

Part TwoLiam found himself in this snowy and hot place. Mator said “I am your father!”In shock Liam said, “Hello father!”

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Mator'said'“Give'me'that'lightning'magic'and'I'will'give'it'back'in'a'different'form.”

Liam'gave'the'lightning'magic'to'Mator'and'slept.

When'Liam'woke'up'he'was'given'a'donut,'chocolate'type.'A`er'Liam'ate'the'donut,'Liam'said'“You'said'

you'will'give'me'the'lightning'magic.”'

Suddenly'he'was'in'a'forest'riding'a'horse.'Liam'rode'for'days.'Then'he'found'a'village.'He'stayed'in'the'

village'bll'he'was'22'then'he'rode'to'where'the'immortal'monsters'were.

Suddenly'lightning'came'out'of'his'hand'and'suddenly'the'kidnapped'prince'appeared'for'a'second.'Then'

the'prince'disappeared.

Then'all'the'monsters'died'and'he'appeared'in'a'snowy'place.'And'then'Mator'said'“You'are'now'an'

immortal'god'–'you'can'be'the'god'of'hunbng'and'weather.”

Liam'stayed'in'the'snowy'place'for'what'seemed'like'hundreds'of'years.'And'then'he'went'back'to'Earth'

and'became'a'world'famous'hero.'Then'he'was'sold'as'a'slave'to'a'mean'king.'The'king’s'name'can’t'be'

remembered'to'this'day.''Liam'had'to'do'lots'of'deeds'for'the'king.'The'deeds'that'he'are'in'the'next'book.'

Before'he'did'the'deeds'he'sailed'to'Galiper'and'he'found'out'that'animals'could'talk.'But'he'got'captured'

by'an'evil'tribe'of'Galiper.'

But'Mator'took'pity'on'Liam'and'rained'down'rocks'and'so'that'ends'the'tale'of'the'quest'of'lightning'

magic.

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The Climb

I woke up in my tent at the base of the cliff. “Damn it” I thought to my self. It was pouring down outside. “It’s going to be a crap climb.” I pulled my small stove out of my backpack turned the little nob and my stove ignited. I started to cook my dinner lamb chops with salad. Nothing too fancy but still good. After forty three minutes my meal was cooked. I dug in. “Mmmmmmm Yummy” I thought. I pulled the zipper and felt a gust of cold hard wind whoosh into my tent. “It’s freezing outside,” I thought. I look up at the hardest, tallest, coldest climb in the world. No one had ever finished this climb so I’m gonna be the first ,hopefully. I set up a small shelter to cover my auto belaying machine I’ve got my harness, my climbing shoes, my chalk and my carabiner. The rain stops. “Well that’s convenient,” I thought. I tie the figure eight knot tie it to my harness and then tie two stopper knots. I walk over to the belaying machine and feed the end of the rope through and see it come out of the end of the machine. I look up and planned where I will climb. I saw a hold. I grabbed it and started climbing. I could hear the belaying machine slowly fading away as I climbed higher and higher and higher. It was getting dark so I decided to set up a tent in a chimney (a climbing position, for people that don’t know.) It wasn’t very comfortable so I just thought about stuff that I found interesting. I woke up to the sound of rain it wasn’t pouring down like before but just a light rain, but it would still make the rocks

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wet and hard to climb. I started to climb again. I shimmied myself up the chimney. About 2 hours later I found a Jug (a really good climbing hold for resting, for those that don’t know.) I decided to rest for a couple of minutes and regain my strength. 8 minutes and I feel legendary! I pull myself up and keep going. The sky was starting to turn grey. Theres going to be a storm and as far as I could see there’s nowhere to set up a tent. “Look’s like I’ll be climbing in the rain.” Just then it started pouring down. “Speak of the devil” I thought. I could see a good looking hold like a pocket or something. I could’t really see through the rain. I made that my goal. After fifteen minutes I made it to my goal, that pocket. When I got there I went to grab it but my hand slipped through the rock. “What the?” I thought. I tried again and again and again but I could’t hold on to the pocket. Then I fell off!!! Yep I fell. But the belaying machine caught me but I swung back into the wall and heard my right leg CRACK! “AHHH” I swore under my breath. I thought, my leg’s broken... full brake I think. I wrap my sleeping mat around my broken leg. I pull out the remote for the auto belaying machine “Ahhhhh crap!” I dropped the remote! Well I’m stuck on the face of a huge cliff. I was hoping to be the first person to climb it to the top. I just sat there trying to ignore the pain as I slowly die of starvation.

About four years later the body was discovered by Max Mccafferty Clark a Australian climber

The End By Max Mccafferty Clark 10‘s/11’s

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Sam Heep’s Story5.The president ran for the helicopter’s doors. The secret service followed him.

4.Then he turned around in fear, as he knew that he could be the one that could defuse it.

3.He turned around and ran as fast as he could back to the old building where the charge was set.

2.He held the explosive device in his hands as he begun to speak the magic word.

1. “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”. He spoke clearly, and with authority. He hoped it would work.

0.The bomb started to make a strange noise. The president dropped it in fear and backed off.

-1The little display started to dim, and the classic noise of a bomb being disarmed played. He was happy that the thermite inside the bomb didn’t melt all the gold around them.

“Damn terrorists,” huffed Mr. President. “Could have just said ‘lung disease’”His first guard on the scene smiled at him. “Damn terrorists for sure. Could have been the worst day for the stock market ever,” The helicopter touched down on the path. Two men in body armour stretched their arms out to help the president up into the large Black Hawk’s body, and before you could say Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, the blades started to spin and they were hovering just above the ground. The president strapped himself in an they glided with skill over the complex also know as Fort Knox.Then the bomb blew up and it sent ripples through every single living organism within a five kilometre radius.“Oh balls,” the president huffed.Somewhere, there would be a very happy terrorist and he would be bragging to his friends about how he almost blew up the president and then he disarmed the bomb but he didn’t know that the bomb would blow up within the next five minutes, so he would still blow up tons and tons of gold anyway.The helicopter flew out, over the wonderful city of Washington D.C.

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Candyland

Once upon a time there was a land called Candyland and a lot of candy people and candy animals lived there. But one day a not candy person came in and started eating all the candy.All the Candy people got angry, especially the Candy King and the Candy Queen. So the Candy King and the Candy Queen made the uncandy person leave Candyland.The next day, the uncandy person came back again and the Candy King and the Candy Queen were furious. So the Candy King decided to tell his mum. The uncandy person got sad, because it was his birthday and he wanted some candy to eat. He just ended up eating it all. And they built another Candyland and then they had a tea party to celebrate with heaps of candy, of course.

The End

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Not meant to beBy Sasha Arnold-levy

If you believe magic isn’t real, well, I know why you might think that. But the truth is, no matter what you say, its real. Even though I’m not big time yet, I know that one day there will be a moment were I don’t even believe what I have done. I think it is about one degrees down here in new york and I’m down on the street. On the street doing what I do every day. To start my show off, I do the famous rabbit in the hat, all you do is you point to the hat and show the audience that there is nothing in the hat. You say the magic words and voila! The rabbit is suddenly in the hat. All the children clap. Next I decide to do the trick were I have a hanky and I put it in my hand and I pull it out and it turns colorful. So I get my hanky, put it I my hand and all of a sudden I smell smoke, I can not only smell it, I can see it too. I feel my feet lift off the ground, and I smile at the audience pretending I know whats happening. As I fly over the audience and start being lowered onto the ground behind the audience, some adults start gathering around, (for the first time!!) everyone starts to clap. My first thought is “I’m amazing” Because for one, I’ve never, ever, ever, done anything like that and I don’t know how it’s possible to do it, but I did it, somehow. “How good am I Jack!!” “I know! Bro, You could become famous!”“Yeah I could”I thought about it all night, I am amazing! I don’t know how I did it though and I don’t know if I can do it again. Trying it again, I get out my hanky and start pulling it, but all that happens is in turns into colorful hankies. All of sudden, the phone rings. Why is it ringing at 8:30 in the morning? I quickly pick it up before it wakes Jack. “Hello, Tom speaking”“Hi Tom, sorry to wake you, but My name is Paula and I was at your show yesterday.”C**P! Someone wants me to be amazing again. HOW?“You were amazing and I would like to offer you your own show” Paula says in delight.“Yeah, thats great!!” I say not even sure how I am going to do something amazing again. But it’s my chance to have my own live show.“Great! But the thing is that you might have to come to Australia.”“That’s fine.” I say excited“Great, I’ll send you a text with the details you will need.” “Just one question, How did you get my number?” I ask. “I work with your brother, he said to come and see you and I asked for your number after your performance”“Oh, OK, bye” I say as I hang up.My brain is going around with questions. Why was my magic amazing on the day Paula was there. Well, maybe my magic instincts are just amazing. But it doesn’t

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make sense. Why, why is my magic all of a sudden brilliant?, the concern is, what if I can’t do it again and I’m on a live stage? “BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP” My phone goes.The message reads “Rod laver arena, 21-30th November. All days be there at 8:30 if you need something in particular just call” C**P!! 8:30!! The only reason why I was up at that time this morning was because of the phone!!

20th November, today, want to know how I’m feeling for tomorrow, well, scared, scared and terrified. It’s 12:00 and I can’t sleep and I only have 8 hours 30 minutes and probably 21 seconds, till I have to be in Australia. I need to get up. But as everyone says “Time fly’s when you having fun” well, not so much the having fun part but the time did fly.

“JACK!!!!!, WERE GOING TO BE LATE!!” I scream.

“COMING!!!!” We run out the door and get to the airport and only just get there in time to board the plane. 4 hours later we arrive tied and, just tied. Paula ‘s there to pick us up. We get into her car and drive to ROD LAVER AREANA. I have always dreamed of coming here. Paula leads me into this room that has a star and the name underneath reads “PINK” but she removes the name and puts a different name, “Tom Patner” I walk into the room and a lady is waiting, with a big box of make-up. Ugggggg.

“And now, I present to you the one you have all come to see, Tom Patner!! The announcer screams.“You’ll be great!” Jack says. I smile and walk out on stage. “Hello melbourne!! You are very lucky tonight, you don’t just get to experience magic, you get to experience my magic!”I hold out my hanky and start pulling it out and I look in the direction of my brother hoping he has his fingers crossed for me. But he’s not, he’s got his hands out too and and he clicks his fingers and I feel a tear run down my face. The smoke comes in my hands and I luckily stay on the ground so I can run off stage. As I pass my brother I say 7 words, just 7, “You said that I could be famous” But the worst part is that after I went into my room for just a minute and then I heard a roar from the crowd. I went out of my room and I peeked out of the curtain and saw Jack, he was out there doing magic.

2 weeks. 2 weeks me and Jack haven’t talked. We just mind our own business. But to be honest, I’m getting lonely. “Jack?”“I’m sorry, as soon as I went to go out on stage I knew it was the wrong thing to do, a lady said I should go”“Clearly you are the better magician” I say“No.......”“You are, and that’s fine. I’m going to start my own business and I just think that suits me better but you should keep going with magic because you’re really good at it”

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From that moment, I started a restaurant called “Home Made” and Jack became probably the most famous magician in the world. Maybe the whole embarrassing moment on the live stage was supposed to happen, because otherwise I wouldn’t know that I was really quite bad at magic. Jack has always been supportive and especially supportive with starting my own business.

Even though my brother helped me, magic and I were not meant to be.

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Fairy Rapunzel - Ruby Rose McCarthy

Fairy Rapzel and Bella Rose and Chippy Earring Rose and two fairies and Rose Pink are picking cherries from a cherry tree.

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Things that I always wondered - Elkan Brady

Things that I always wondered

I have always wondered if I could flyI have always wondered if I could build a rocket I have always wondered if I could travel the worldI have always wondered if I could bring the dinosaurs back to lifeI have always wondered if I could have 20 elephants and 15 crocodilesYou know children wonder Elkan

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Poem

ONCE I HAD A COW.IT ATE LOTS OF CHOW.

IT MOWED MY LAWNWITH ITS HORN.

AT NIGHT IT WENT INSIDE TO SLEEPON ITS MASSIVE HAY HEAP.

BUT THEN I WAS SAD BECAUSE IT DIED.AND I CRIED.

AND THEN I ATE IT FOR DINNER.

THEN I HAD A CHICKEN.I FOUND IT IN MY MITTENS.

I KILLED IT AND ATE IT THE NEXT DAY IN A SANDWICH..

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Chapter 1

Why did Sally fall off the swing

Once there lived a girl named Lucy. She loved exploring. She had almost explored everywhere in her neighbourhood except one house she never dared to enter. No one lived there but there was always smoke coming from the chimney. Once she was playing with a special paper plane her dad made her, when suddenly the plane flew in through the top open window and into the old house. This is the story of Lucy getting back her paper plane..... “Mum” said Lucy. “My paper plane just flew into that house. Could I go get it please?” “No darling, remember that house is not safe and your not to go in it” said Lucy's mum. “But that plane is so special, dad made it. Please!”“NO! You must promise me you will never go in that house!”“Ok” I said. But I had a plan. I was going to get one of my friends and we were going to go into that house and get my paper plane. Now I know that my mum said to never ever go in that house but I wasn’t scared. I had explored everywhere. Well everywhere apart from that house. This was the perfect chance!

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That night I couldn't sleep just thinking about that house. What was it going to be like? I had already decided which friend I was going to pick. I chose a nice girl named Carmen. She is one of my best friends. We do almost everything together. The next morning......“Ok today I’m going to go ask my friend to come help me get back my paper plane,” I said to myself. I went over to Carmen’s place and knocked on her window. I didn't knock on the door because that would wake her parents and they would be very angry. I wouldn't want that. Luckily she was already awake playing on her iPhone. “Carmen” I whisper. “Ah!” she shouted. “Don't worry just come out side. I need to tell you something,” I said. Carmen slowly and quietly climbed out her window and jumped down to where I was standing. “Carmen will you come with me into the old house across from my place and help me get my plane?” I asked. “I’m not sure” she said. You see Carmen doesn't really like being asked questions on the spot. It makes her feel pressured. “Please Carmen. I really can’t go on my own. What if something happens to me?” “Ok I will come, Lucy if you are sure we wont get hurt” “I’m positive we wont get hurt, Carmen. I lied. I wasn't positive. In fact I was quit scared now after what Mum had said, but I knew I had to do it to get my plane back. I would just have to face my fears. “Ok go back to bed, Carmen. We will go in the afternoon when our parents leave us to go to work” I said. “Ok” she answered.

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I went back home very nervous but also excited. I didn't think Carmen would say yes. If she hadn't, I wouldn't be able to go. But I’m not looking back now. This after noon Carmen and I will enter that house and exit it with my paper plane. I went home and made my breakfast. THIS AFTERNOON......“Ok darling, I’m going to work now. I’ll be back by 8:00,” said my mum. “Ok mum. Bye!” I replied. She walked out the door. This is my chance. I waited a little while then I went to Carmen's house. “Carmen, are you there?” I said. “Yep, I’m all ready!” she replied. Carmen came outside. We went over to the house. “Ok, this is it” I said. “Yep, are you ready, Lucy?” said Carmen. “I think so?” I replied. I walked into the house and there were a huge set of stairs. “The plane went in the top window so I think it will be up the stairs,” I said. I put my foot on the first step and suddenly I heard a slow swinging noise coming from the top floor. I took another and heard it again but this time louder and faster. “Come on” I said to Carmen. She followed me, “Hey, did you hear that noise?” said Carmen. “Yeah, but maybe its just the steps creaking?” I said. Then I continued up the stairs. Every time I stepped on a higher step, the noise went louder and faster. By the time I reached the top step the swinging noise was so loud and so fast !“I’m a bit scared, now” said Carmen. “Its ok. Whats the worst that could happen?” I said. “Ummm we could be eaten alive?” “I don’t think that would happen, Carmen.

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“Right now I’m at the top floor. I think the room the plane flew into is up here. “I think that’s the room!” I say pointing to a dark slightly haunted room. “Are you sure, Lucy? That looks pretty scary” she replied. “There’s something that’s telling me its the right room,” I said. “Ok” she answered. I opened the door and walked in. A breeze brushed against my face. It smelt like death. It wasn’t long till I realized there was a reason it smelt like that. On the floor next to an old and rusty swing was a girl. “Oh my that’s a girl I know from down the street. Her name is Sally,” I said. But Carmen wasn’t listening. She was just staring in fear. I walked over to the girl and kneeled down next to her. I felt her pulse. She was dead. It was only then when that I realised the plane had hit Sally. “Look the plane is on the floor,” I said. I picked up the plane. “But why did Sally fall of the swing?” I have the plane in my hand but we are still curious why that poor girl died. I guess its just going to be a mystery because we have got to get out of here! “Come on, Carmen! Lets go home and forget about what we saw ok?” I said nicely. “But-but are you sure? We should just leave this girl here?” she replied. “You’re right. Lets double check she’s ok” “Alright Lucy, then we will go home.” I walked over to Sally. She was very pale. I was quite convinced she was dead but no when I crouched down next to her, suddenly her eyes opened! “AH!” I screamed.

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“What is it! Whats wrong!?” said Carmen. “Carmen, I think we should leave” I replied. “Why we just got here and it looks cool, hey I thought you liked to explore!” said Carmen. “This is different, Carmen. I think this girl is alive!” I said as I slowly stepped back. Carmen walked up and sat next to the girl and studied her. “Are you sure she’s alive, Lucy?” said Carmen. “Yes! Before I saw her open her eyes!” I replied. “I think you might just be seeing things that really aren’t there,” said Carmen. “But I am sure I saw her open her eyes. I’m just not seeing things!” I said. Look I know I was sounding crazy but I was sure I saw her open her eyes. “What are looking at Carmen?” I said. “I’m just looking at her. She looks very familiar like I know her” said Carmen. “Don’t you remember, Carmen? We were having a street party and she was invited. We enjoyed playing with her and you don”t remember?” I said. “No, its not that. Of course I remember that! Its just that its like I have seen her somewhere else. Does she go to our school, Lucy?” said Carmen. “I’m not sure. I never really asked” I said. You see we have a very large school and I don’t know everyone especially since I’m in grade 5 and there are like 4 groups of grade 5s. All of the groups have about 40 people in them!

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We walked out of the room and I notice that Sally was now sitting up.“See Carmen? It wasn’t my imagination. Look! Sally is sitting up now. How would someone not alive do that?!” I said. “Oh Lucy, I think you are seeing things again Sally is not sitting up” said Carmen. She was right! Sally was on the floor again. I swear this isn’t in my head. I saw her sitting up and I know that she’s alive! We kept walking but as I was walking down the steps day dreaming I realised Carmen had walked on one of the steps and it broke! “Oh no! Carmen! Where are you!” I shouted.

...to be continued

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A way to Freedom - Ollie

A'Way'to'Freedom'–'Inspired'by'a'true'story

By'Ollie

Once'in'England,'many'years'before'your'grandma'and'grandpa'were'born,'a'9'year'old'boy’s'grandfather'

was'sick'in'hospital.

“James,”'he'said.'“I’ve'heard'there’s'a'new'country'to'be'found'and'it'will'be'found'by'you.”

The'next'day'James'got'some'awful'news'that'would'change'his'life'in'minutes.'His'grandfather'had'died.

James'got'over'the'death'of'his'grandfather'in'about'10'minutes'because'knew'that'his'grandfather'would'

be'looking'down'on'him'from'heaven.

33'years'later'James'set'out'for'a'journey.'He'went'in'a'southGwest'direcbon'to'Tahib,'then'New'Zealand'

and'then'finally'to'Australia.

This'is'how'he'came'to'be'in'Australia,'all'thanks'to'James'Cook’s'grandfather.

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The on going war of the upset old people.

Shelly lay under a tree.It was a hot summer’s day and she was ready for a nice walk.She sat up and started walking towards a tree but she heard someone screamso she walked towards them. A girl was sitting under a tree rubbing her head‘Are you ok?’ ‘Um yeah.’ ‘Hi, my name is Shelly. What`s your’s?’ ‘My name is Grace. Come on Shelly. Let’s go!’ They walked for a while chatting and exploring the forest but they did not know that they had crossed the border from the fake forrest to the old people`s town. Soon it got dark they walked around a corner and they started to hear loud moaning sounds. ‘Shelly, I`m scared!’ ‘Don`t worry, Grace, its probably animal sounds!’ But as they turned that second corner they saw heaps and heaps of old people. First they were just old men but then they saw the old women. Their high socks and short hair cuts scared Grace and Shelly. They raised their walking sticks and charged at Grace and Shelly. ‘Help!’ they screamed in unison. Grace and Shelly ran as fast as they could but the old people were catching up. Then they saw a tower. ‘Grace, the tower!’‘Ok Shelly!’ Grace breathed.A tower was just what they needed! The old people were too old and decrepit to climb the tower. They climbed up the abandoned tower and through the window at the top. The tower had one room at the top with a window and armchair. ‘Grace, we will have to sleep here tonight’ Shelly said in a very serious voice. ‘I bags the armchair!’ Grace dived onto the armchair and hugged it tight. ‘I bags the floor’ sad Shelly sadly.

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‘Come on Shelly, cheer up!’ Grace ran to the window and stared at the old people they were jumping up grabbing something and then falling off. Grace and Shelly fell asleep.

============================================================Light streamed through the stone window and into Grace’s eyes.‘Ah’ she rolled around. Her eyes fluttered and then she woke up. ‘Morning Shelly!’Grace ran up to the window. She stared out of the window. There were old people further than the horizon! One old person with a fez hat was walking around probably sleep walking, Grace thought.‘Hey morning, Grace!’‘Morning Shelly!’ They quietly climbed down the tower and slowly climbed over sleeping bodies. The man with the fez hat took of his hat and showed his bald head to the girls. It was all slimy and gross. ‘Eew’ they said. The old man tried to chase the girls but in one of the other old person’s dreams they were walking and they raised their walking sticks so the fez man tripped over but the old people started to wake. “Run!!!!!!!!!”They hurdled over endless wrinkled bodies.They ran into a forest full of monkeys. They were flying and when you whistled they would come and throw bananas at you.They walked out of the forest and there was a big clearing but standing in their way were three giant old people. And they didn’t let the girls come through because that was the border between the old people’s town and the other world.Grace whistled and the monkeys came and threw bananas at the old people and the old people fell over. So they could walk through into the other world.And they lived happily ever after!

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The&BlacksmithOnce'there'was'a'man'who'was'a'blacksmith.'One'day'he'decided'to'make'a'belt.'He'went'on'a'quest'to'

find'all'of'the'eight'gems'he'needed'to'put'in'it.'He'needed'eight'because'then'they'could'make'war'against'

the'Woodlands.'The'Woodlands'was'a'year’s'journey'away'from'there.'The'people'there'wanted'to'kill'

everyone'in'the'blacksmith’s'town;'they'also'wanted'the'gems,'and'then'they'could'a\ack'the'blacksmith’s'

town.

So'he'went'away,'walking'and'walking'and'walking.'He'saw'a'gem,'but'alas,'there'was'a'fearful'dragon'

guarding'it.'Aha,'he'thought,'I'should'catch'some'lion’s,'larks'and'doves.'He'did'all'of'that.'Then'he'made'a'

snare'and'said,'“here'dragon,'have'this'food.”'The'food'was'in'the'snare.'The'dragon'put'his'head'in.'

Quickly,'the'man'pulled'the'snare'bght.'He'grabbed'the'gem'and'ran'away'as'quickly'as'he'could.'He'ran'

and'ran'and'ran.'Then,'he'made'shelter'in'a'cave'with'four'nice'and'friendly'birds.'Two'days'a`er,'they'

became'his'true'friends.'

He'kept'on'going'on'his'quest.'The'birds'helped'to'find'two'of'the'gems.'Then'they'went'back'to'their'

home.'The'man'always'remembered'where'they'lived.'Then'he'went'to'a'stream.'He'saw'the'gem'inside.'

Then'he'asked'his'friends'the'birds,'“do'you'have'any'friend'fishes?”

“Yes'I'do.”'said'one'of'the'birds.'

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He'told'the'birds,'“go'to'Lake'Meerone.”

Then,'the'fish'swam'down'and'down'to'get'the'gem,'then'he'gave'it'to'the'man.'Then'he'had'four'gems.'

He'needed'as'many'gems'as'he'already'had.'Then'he'got'two'more'from'a'trader.'He'gave'four'thousand'

gold'coins'and'twenty'five'sapphires.'Then'he'gave'some'Africans'four'hundred'diamonds'for'the'last'two'

gems.

Then'he'went'back'home.

“Hooray,'hooray,'we'can'declare'war.”

The'end.

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Ten'Unfortunate'Children'G''Clemenbne''Rose

Chapter'One:

I'made'a'story.''It’s'a'pre\y'incredible'story'so'I'don’t'blame'you'if'you'don’t'believe'me.''It'is'a'story'of'ten'

unfortunate'children.''Their'names'were'Ruby,'Francesca,'Mia,'Jemima,'Jazz,Tom,'Jack,'Bill,'Robert'and'

Lucas.''The'oldest'was'Ruby.''They'go'in'order''When'Lucas'was'very'young'their'parents'died.''Ruby'was'

terrified!''The'rest'just'sat'down'with'the'dead'bodies.''Their'house'was'destroyed'so'they'lived'in'the'

basement.''It'was'dark'and'wet'down'there.''Here’s'a'picture.

Chapter'Two:

10'years'years'later'when'Lucas'was'15'and'Ruby'was'19,'it'had'almost'been'10'years'living'in'the'

basement'so'they'were'used'to'the'dark.''Ruby'had'a'scar'on'her'right'cheek.''She'called'it'her'lucky'scar'

that'she'had'had'ever'since'she'remembered.''I’m'going'on'but'it'becomes'quite'incredible!''Well,'one'day'

down'in'the'basement'an'incredible'thing'happened.''There'were'having'breakfast'when'suddenly'a'low'

rumbling'sound'appeared.''Then'suddenly'a'flying'car'crashed'through'the'ceiling.''All'the'spiders'fell'off'

the'ceiling.''The'man'was'geEng'out'of'it'and'standing'up.''The'man,'well'he'was'bny.''He'had'a'bny'nose,'

bny'black'eyes'and'big'pointed'ears.

Then'a'HUGE'man'stepped'out'and'stood'up'and'a'few'more'goblins'stepped'out'of'the'car'and'stood'up.''

Then'the'big'man'stepped'forward'and'spoke,'“Well'Happy'Birthday'Ruby,'and'ar...are...r'may'I'have'a'cup'

of'tea!?”'he'asked.

“Of'course'you'can!''Come'and'sit'down,”'remarked'Ruby.

“OK'I'want'to'tell'you'something'ummm...boy'this'is'tricky...Well'you’re'..um..you’re'all...um..”

“Can'you'just'say'it!?'Said'Bill'impabently.

“Ok,'fine.''You’re'all'witches'and'wizards!”

“Who,'who,'who,'isn’t'this'just'a'bit'random?”'Bill'asked.

“I'believe'you'Mr...I'don’t'know'your'name,”'said'Jazz.

“True,'true,'I'‘aven’t'introduced'meself.''Jones'Iterbelly.''But'you'call'me'Jones.''Now'what'about'that'tea.”''

He'said'spiEng'out'his'words.

“Of'course,'here'it'is,”'Ruby'said,'giving'him'a'steaming'mug'of'tea.

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Hi I am a ghost. Its kind of good. But I can’t eat dinner. I can see ghosts and dogs. Not cats! I hate cats. Pie is good!

Back to the story. I was a astronaut going to the Planet Pie. But then I got hit by a space cat.That why I hate): cats. It hit my ship. I said Nooooooooooooo!!!!.But I lived because I ate some magic pie. It gave me a power to breathe in space for two days. But the cat ate me): and I went to heaven and saw my dad and my mum. But she said “You have to tell a story to the younger kids.” “Ok!”This is the story of me! Did you like my story?

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TRAVELINGA STORY BY UNCLE CARMEN, UNCLE ROSIE & UNCLE LILY

CHAPTER 1THE PLANE TRIP

We are leaving today to go on our world tour.First we are going to Toronto, Canada. It will be very exciting.Uncle Rosie hopes we see a moose but Uncle Lily wants to see a Koala. We are now at the airport. We have waited 9 minutes in this line and now it is our turn to get our ticket.But Uncle Rosie packed a gun because she sleeps with it and we missed our flight because Uncle Rosie got put in jail and we had to bust her out.When we got on the plane, we had to sit in an aisle seat because a fat man took our window seats, (there was 3 of them and he took them all.)I had to sit next to a woman with so much plastic surgery she had no face.Finally we got our food, Uncle Lily ordered a pie but when she bit into it, ants fell our and she started to vomit.After a long and painful trip, we got to Toronto. (Yay!!)Uncle Lily said that the hotel was beautiful (only because there was a window with a koala in it.)We got to our hotel room. There were 2 beds and the other two uncles won 21 for it so I ended up sleeping on the couch.

CHAPTER 2EXPLORING

Today is the day we go to the water park.We heard good reviews about it.We rented a car (a Ferrari) and drove to this amazing water park.Whoop! We are here and Uncle Rosie is laughing like a maniac.Uncle Lily is pointing out that there is no one here and no workers here but we put that aside.I go on this long blue water slide except there is no water so I just slide down like a normal slide. 3 hours later we go to get a boost juice.

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Uncle Lily gets a cookies n cream, I get a mango magic, and Uncle Rosie gets a strawberry wish.Today we are going to the CM tower. It is exciting. I hate elevators so I make us take the stairs.Half an hour later we get to the top. Uncle Lily runs to the window and looks down. She sees a red flame in the building next to us. I walk up and yell “FIRE!”We are back at our hotel room. Turns out it was just the shop Hot n Spicy.

CHAPTER 3HA VA II

Now we are in Hawaii. There is a big volcano we are climbing. We have started climbing and Uncle Lily is racing Uncle Rosie and I to the top. We are there. The volcano is quite pretty. Suddenly a stranger pops out of the inside of the volcano and is holding a wand.She says “Greetings!” and walk over to Uncle Rosie and Uncle Lily. We ask her what she wants. She says she wants to come on our journey.I walk over to her to say we would love that...in a million years! And push her back into the volcano. As she fell we saw a sign saying STRANGER SIA.Uncle Rosie says she did’t care for STRANGER SIA and that she loved that I pushed her back in. Uncle Lily agrees, saying we should go out to dinner. So that’s what we do. We go to get dumplings. I know, we are in Hawaii, so we should have Hawaiin Pizza, but no, dumplings are much nicer. We all hate pizza.Later, we went for a night walk. The beach is amazing until a giant tentacle reached out and grabbed a young couple by the body and ate them whole. We decide that we should go and grab an ice cream. So that’s what we did.When we get back to our bungalow, we turn on our flatscreen TV. We were watching “The Call of the Cellos” when someone knocked on the door. It was STRANGER SIA. Uncle Rosie screamed and slammed to the door on Stranger SIA’s face. She peeked through the keyhole and kept screaming for about 20 minutes which was annoying because I wanted to watch “The Call of the Cellos.” Uncle Lily went and picked up Uncle Rosie to take her to her room.We had a great night’s sleep, other than Uncle Rosie. She was shivering the whole night through.It is our last night here in Hawaii, It was enjoyable. I think Uncle Rosie and Uncle Lily enjoyed it too.We are on the plane now. Uncle Lily is squashed up next to a strangely large fat man.

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Uncle Rosie is eating her dinner. She is eating corn flakes. It was the only thing on the menu other than an old pie.We are in Berlin now. Its exciting. We are going to Lego Land. Uncle Lily has rented us a car. It looks like an old crusty boot.There is a mountain goat facing us. Uncle Rosie is patting him. He’s handing out candy. We are walking into Lego Land now. Thank god we got away from that goat. He was trying to bite us and I think he had rabies.Lego Land is enjoyable. It has a fun roller coaster. I went on it many times. Uncle Lily went on the rapid rides. She said it was all bumpy.Uncle Rosie is going on the Kiddie Slide. It is one metre high.We are eating lunch now. I am having a burger. Uncle Rosie is eating that mountain goat and Uncle Lily is eating chips.

CHAPTER 4THE FIRE IN LEGO LAND

That was a good lunch. Now we are in the toilet. That goat made Uncle Rosie need to wee. She has been in there for 80 minutes. It is a nice toilet.It has a waterfall. THERE IS A SIREN GOING OFF! HELP!!!Oh sorry. There is a fire alarm going off, We have to leave Lego Land now because a Mean Uncle set fire to the Kiddie Slide,. Her name was Uncle Alex. She hurt Uncle Lily by pushing her into the trees. Se is like Swiper the Fox in Dora the Explorer.Everyone is leaving Lego Land, excluding Uncle Alex. We don’t want to leave but we must.Today we are going to The Zoo. It has got some really good reviews. First Uncle Lily insists we put on Sunscreen but Uncle Rosie refuses so we miss an hour of Zoo Time, thanks to them. We are in the Cab now. It is different to Boston because the cab in Boston is yellow. Here it is blue. The Zoo is sooooooooooo boring. All the animals are roaming around freely and not trained to attack. No! I just realised we are supposed to go to Pompeii today. We were here for 30 days and we stayed for 30 and a half days.

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We are here and Uncle Rosie is having a panic attack because she is scared of trolleys. You know those ones they have at the airport. She is terrified of them.So after taking her to the emergency room (she is fine, by the way), we got to our hotel. The room was wonderful, as in the theme. All the rooms had themes and I had asked especially for Wonderland. Although Uncle Lily wanted Oz.We got our room after a lot of negotiating about the theme.Then we left to Pompeii. It is a 12 hour bus trip and we mostly slept for the whole time, although I do play some games on my phone like Barbie and Makeup. Uncle Rosie is disturbing everyone by her snoring. It is loud and crusty. There is also Uncle Alex in the back, making potions. So I decide to go up to her and push her out the window.We are in Pompeii and it was soooooo hot. Not worth a 12 hour bus trip. Its just a whole lot of people who are made of stone and old buildings. Uncle Rosie is making me take a picture but it is not worth it. So I throw her into Mount Vesuvius. What? She deserved it. But Uncle Alex got her out, so I pushed her in and grabbed Uncle Rosie and ran to the motel near Pompeii.

CHAPTER 6THE FINAL DESTINATION

We are now on the plane and it is soooo disturbing Uncle Lily decided she needs to go to the toilet and now there is against line outside of it. At the final airport (In Queensland, Australia) Uncle Rosie took someone else’s luggage and got herself in a fight.Now it is our 5th day here and it is very hot. We found out that a koala is Australian but Uncle Lily believes that the Aussies took the koalas from Canada.Today we are going to Dreamworld and we are super excited. Uncle Rosie says she has been here before and loves The Claw. I say that there is no way I’m going on it but she says it is really fun.So we are there and it is wonderful,. I go on a spinny ride with yellow carriages and seat-belts. Uncle Rosie went on a Spongebob Squarepants ride and Uncle Lily went on an octopus ride. Then it was time for The Claw to open and Uncle Rosie bolted to it while me and Uncle Lily slowly paced ourselves. We got there. I was a huge sizzle. There was a huge line and The Claw was massive, I am taking a breath and going to join Uncle Rosie in the line. Uncle Lily is waving at us like a goodbye wave. I take another big breath, The old man opened the gate and let us into the ride.

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Naomi pulled the needle through the fabric. It was a shimmery pink and she was embroidering cherry blossoms and tiny leaves along the hems. Sewing had always been one of her talents and she was a specialley good at embroidery. Naomi peered out her window and breathed deeply. China was beautiful in spring. Looking at her family sitting in the garden made her want to go and join them. Her little sister age nine was sitting on the stone bench writing poetry. Next to her their mother was reading a book. Her father was working on a carving of a ship. Her twin brothers were bending down by the goldfish pond with nets. They were seven. The baby Ping played on the grass. Naomi smiled. That family would have been perfect except that she was up here. Well she would make it perfect. Scooping up the cheery themed kimono she looked out the window once more at her perfect family. Then every thing changed.

Gun fire sounded loudly outside. A scream pieced the air like a knife. Men began running past. One stopped at our gate and and called my fathers name. Father stood up his face pale. Unasked questions seemed to echo around. But only one was answered. “The French” said the man his face pale. Then he ran off. But he was not alone. Father was with him. Mother looked up looking like all hope was lost. Like life was disappearing from her streaming away towards someone else. Even Ping seemed unhappy and Ping was only a year old. Mother handed Ping to Ava her other sister. Calling to Naomi to stay inside she began to hurried towards the twins. Her kimono fell to the floor and the needle dug into her leg drawing blood but she hardly noticed. Hurrying down the stairs she spotted Ava and Ping on the second floor. My house has a ground floor and a second floor and an attic. Naomi slept in the attic. She skidded to a halt and ran to them. “What happened? Where’s Father?” Ava face was like snow and she looked older. “Fathers with the army. We’re in a war!”

Chapter twoThere is silence in the house except for for the ticking of the clock and the beating of Naomi’s heart. War the army Father the army. She had a million questions but all she could ask was “how long for?” Ava rolled her eyes at Naomi. “It’s a war Ni. No-one knows how long he’ll be out there. He could die out there. We don’t..” And then Ava was crying and Naomi put her arm around her. Ava was a soft gentle person who wrote poems and feed the birds each day. She had a pet dove that lived in the garden in a small closed space. It had plenty of space and Ava was there each day without fail. Mother came in with the twins and smiled softly at her girls. “don’t worry” she said. None said anything all through dinner. In fact none said anything until mother was putting Ping to bed and there was a knock on the door. “Oh Naomi. Put Ping to bed will you while I see what this is all about will you.” Mother walked down the stairs. On the door step was a soldier. Naomi barely had time to glimpse him before Ping cried out for a story. Naomi read her the dragon painter. Mother did not come back. Ava brought Ping’s milk

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and shock her head when Naomi raised her eyebrows. Then Naomi left the room and Ava sang a lullaby to Ping in her clear voice and Ping fell asleep. Naomi paced her room picked and hung up her kimono then paced until the door closed. Then she ran down stairs. Ava meet her at the second floor. Then together they ran down to the door. Mother was crying.

Horrible thoughts flashed through Naomi’s head. Father dead the war here. Evacuation. Not please not that. They could not leave their mother. Was that why she was crying? “Mother what’s wrong?” Ava’s voice jerked Naomi back to the real word. Not that it was much nicer than her thoughts. At least her mother had stopped crying. “Oh it’s nothing.” her mother shock her head. “Nothing at all. The war is nowhere near here. We’ll all be safe. Father will be back soon. And the war will be over. I promise.”

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But the war lasted a long time. Two years went by. Planes flew over at least four times a week. But there was no bombing. Three more months went by. And Naomi was almost thirteen. She did not expect a party. They were in war zone and most of her friends had fled to England where it was said to have no fighting. Nor did she except presents. Most of the shops were shut locked up. But on the 3rd of the month the first two letters came one was for her mother. The other was a birthday card! From her Father. “Mother. A letter from father. For me.” everyone ran down the stairs. First her mother with hair down to her waist because there was none to cut it. Then Ava age eleven her hair short because she had sold it to raise some money. Mother had chopped it and everyone else”s hair to the length they liked but Ava’s was even shorter than the twins age nine who followed her. They were still identical and they still did everything together. In fact they were sliding down they banisters instead of walking like Ping. Ping was now three and very good at talking. “A letter from Father. Read it please. But he never wote before. Did he?” “No.” Naomi said. She was studying the letter. It had been made to look as much like a card as possible. The was an ink imprint of a leaf on the front. It had been folded in half. “ Umm he says umm oh mum it’s tricky. Umm.

Dear Naomi. Happy birthday. It’s very tricky to send mail where I was and thats why I did not contact you before. Then a few weeks ago we were

moved and there is a mailman near us. I”m sorry I didn’t to write for any other birthdays. But thirteen is a special age. This is a

gingko leaf. They grow native where I am. I wonder if you remember the first and only time you saw them. Now you now I was really thinking when I sent this card. Sorry if the ink smudged a little.

Good bye and love from Father

Naomi smiled. She remembered when her father had taken her out to a park. Just her. She had run and danced and climbed into a tree. There she had asked her father. “why are there fans all over the tree?” and he had climbed up with her and answered. “they are leaves Naomi.

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Gingko leaves.” and when they'd left the park he’d tucked one into her hair. Naomi smiled. He’d known exactly what he was sending her. “Well.” said Mother “he’s right. Thirteen is a special age. Happy birthday Ni.” And Mother was holding presents. They went into mother’s room and crowed on the big soft bed that Mother slept in alone. Then Ava swirled her finger through the small pile of presents. “This one’s from me.” Naomi opened the paper. It was news paper because there was no wrapping paper. Inside was a tiny needle book that Ava had made herself in secret moments. There was a single word sewed in pink on the cream cover. Naomi. Inside were two needles. Naomi got up hugged Ava and turned to the twins. “No.” they said with one voice. “Ours comes last.” Ping moved on the bed. She was holding a parcel. Inside was a book. “The world of dragons. A fact book on mythical animals. This is great Ping.” Ping smiled. Mother present was small and delicate. Naomi opened it slowly and discovered a necklace. A tiny shard of jade hung in an elegant curl from a piece of leather. “Oh mother it’s perfect.” Naomi put it on. The twins grabbed her hands and pulled her down the stairs to the kitchen. On the large table was a bowl. In the bowl were tiny brown pebbles, a water weed ,a tiny bridge, lots of water and a goldfish. “Wow” said Naomi. “She’s beautiful. She really is.” and then the celebrations began. First there was the naming of the goldfish(it won the name Gingko) then they played games like treasure hunt which Ping could play. Then Mother read a story from The world of dragons.(she read the myth of the dragon egg) Finally they had cake and a party dinner. It had been a great birthday.

Chapter four

Naomi could not remember falling asleep but when she opened her eyes it was dark. At first she did not know why she had woken but then she heard. Sirens. “Mother mother” she screamed. Then dashing around tossing food in to a bag she screamed again. “Wake up.” mother came down the stairs tying up her dressing gown. “Oh my.” she said and began packing blankets and clothes and filling bottles of water. “Wake everyone.” Naomi obeyed. Ava was already awake. “What’s happening?” she asked. “Planes, the french. Here” “What. But we’er out of war zone.” Ava was very confused. So was Naomi but she did not show it. “Put something warm on and grab a few things then run. Wait wake the twins first.” Ava scurried out of the door. Naomi followed. Ping was sleeping peacefully. Naomi woke her, put warmer clothes on her, gave her a bag and told her to grab things. Then she ran up the last set of stairs to her room. It was almost completely silent in her room. Pictures of all her family were on the walls. Gingko swam around looking fine. As she pulled on her warm clothes and packed her things Naomi wished she could stay in her room forever. But Ping and Ava were in her room begging her to hurry and then she was walking down the stairs.

“Right” said Mother. “I’ll take Ping, Naomi you and Ava stay together and boys stay with me. Okay run for it!” they burst out the door and ran across the street. “Wait” yelled Ava. “My bird” No Ava Naomi thought come back. She chased Ava to the back garden. As Ava fumbled with the door Naomi caught hold of her arm.”You come back right now. Leave Jade here she’ll be fine,” But Ava was not listening. “Oh lord. Naomi help.” Naomi looked up. Something was

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falling towards the ground. “Run.” She commanded and together they speed across the road. One of the neighbors had a bomb shelter. The had left like so many others. They house was empty.

Naomi and Ava just made it. Curled together on a bunk they listened to crashes and bangs, screams and shouts and then worst of all a silence. Naomi had known they would never make it through the night. It was 1:00 am by the clock in the shelter when tiered, sick feeling and horribly, horribly scared Naomi and Ava feel asleep.

Next morning the was nothing. No sounds no dark but also no Mother no Ping and no twins. Naomi was quiet and still because Ava was curled up her head resting on Naomi’s shoulder still asleep, But when she woke up and they went outside Naomi wished she’d looked first. Looking out was the worst thing ever. It was the house she had lived in for thirteen years. In ruins.

Chapter five

Mother was not there. Ping and the boys were gone. There was no sign of human life anywhere. Naomi and Ava ran up and down the street calling for Mother. For help, But no one came. All that day they looked for someone the knew. Once a man walked past. Before they reached him he was gone. By the end of the day they were tired, hungry and cold. In the bomb shelter they discovered canned food, blankets and a small stove. Naomi made beds while Ava cooked some dinner. As they ate they made a plan. The next day they would go to the house and find anything that had survived the bombing. Then they would make there way towards the harbor where they could get a boat to America. They were sure that was where Mother was heading and if they went there then they would find her. They did not know how big America was.The next day Naomi had changed her mind about one thing. She’d thought looking at her ruined house was the worst thing ever. But now she knew that standing in it was the worst thing ever. Ava had found the spot where Jade’s enclosure had been. She placed a single flower upon it. The only flower left on the cherry tree. Well really the cherry branch. Cherry branches were all over the block. Naomi found the fridge still full and undamaged. Then Ava found her bed. And a pencil. And Mother’s purse. And “Naomi”. A little way away was a chunk of wall. It was part of Naomi’s bedroom wall. The part with the picture of the family on it. And the picture was still in tact. And behind that “Ava” said Naomi slowly. Jade stood next to a chunk of glass. It was a curved sort of shard. Inside was a little water and Gingko. Still alive. “Well,” said Ava. “It can’t have been a big bomb.”“There are so many things still alright here.” Naomi smiled. “It’s a sign. A sign that we will all get back together.”

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the picture, the pencil, the purse, all the food, the book, the needle book, Jade, Gingko, the hairbrush, our coats, my writing book, the clothes on our backs and a little money. Oh and your necklace.Ava grimaced at Naomi. “It’s not good is it?”“No,” said Naomi. “But it will be okay.

Chapter sixThe next year was the longest of their live. Most of it was spent working for old Miss Cranket. Then after three months of service she sent them off and they walked the world until they discovered a man and a woman living alone. They took care of the woman who was pregnant and cleaned the house until the woman went into labour and the man sold the house and moved closer to the hospital. Then he took them to the harbour and paid them. They looked at each other. “We have the money to go to America. But the last boat left,” said Ava.“How do you know?” asked Naomi. Ava pointed to a sign saying that the harbour was closed.They walked until they stopped in front of a house. “We might as well sleep here until morning,” said Naomi.The woman who lived in the house was fine about them staying the night. She said her house was a hotel that night. She had another family staying that night, too. Down stairs came the noise of chatter. Naomi and Ava walked up.“I feel funny,” said Ava. “Like something is going to happen.”“Me too,” said Naomi.They opened the door. A man turned and jumped. A woman looked round too but she was silent as well. It was a young girl who spoke first. “Ava,” she squealed. “Naomi!”“Oh Ping!” both girls spoke with one voice. Father and Mother raced to the door. Ping followed. Two boys came out of a room. Without a word, they joined the hug of one family.

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Maya focused on the strands of bright thread and weaved them in and out, in and out, in and out, blocking everything else out. An unexpected crash came from the side of the house followed by a distressed yelp. Maya stood up from her work and

made her way to the side of the house. Her dog, Ali had knocked over the crates of bright, cotton thread that Maya’s family used for weaving. “Ali, don’t get the thread

dirty” Maya complained. Ali stared up at her with big, sad eyes and put on his cutest face. “Ok, I forgive you” Maya said and immediately Ali’s eyes lit up again. Maya bent

down and scooped him up. She hugged Ali and he licked Maya’s face. Maya put Ali down and went back to her weaving. She was very good at it and enjoyed it a lot. She found it relaxing and often did while meditating. At the moment, she was making a

blanket for Ali after noticing that he seemed cold at night. “ Maya, time to come inside now, I need you to help me make the pie” Maya’s mother said from inside. “Ok,

coming” Maya yelled back. “Hey Ali, I will try and sneak you a scrap from the pie if you sit here and stay out of trouble, ok?” Maya whispered to Ali and then ran inside.

Chapter 2

“So, what would you like me to do?” Maya asked her mother. “Well, you can start on the lamb mince for the inside and I will roll out the pastry” was the reply. Maya stole a bit of the meat and hid it in her apron pocket. They were making the pie because

every Friday night, the whole family would gather together and have a big meal, including a lamb pie. Maya is the oldest girl in the family and it is her responsibility to help her mother cook the meals. It was Tuesday, 24th of August 79 AD, and they

were preparing the pie for Friday. Her three younger brothers are all under six and are too young to even help their father collect firewood. “Maya, I just realized that we do not have enough oil for the pie, would you please go down to the market and get

some more?” Maya’s mother asked, giving her a handful of coins. On her way to the market, Maya gave Ali the piece of meat. “Good boy Ali” Maya said, quietly as Ali

wolfed down the lamb. She made her way down to the market and when she got to the oil stand, she realized that her mother had given her too much money. She

stared up at Mount Vesuvius and wondered if she could get away with spending the extra money to buy something for herself or Ali. She decided that she would spend a little of the money and give the rest to her mother when she got home. She bought a

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before anyone found out. She had just finished the last mouthful when there was a deafening bang.

Chapter 3

For a split-second Maya was completely lost. She didn’t know what was happening. It was like she had been hit in the head. She thought she might pass out but she managed to stay conscious. Everyone stared up at Mount Vesuvius and Maya

followed their gaze. The top of Mount Vesuvius had seemed to be blown off and black smoke was pouring out, straight up. Everyone was frantic. People were rushing to

save there precious things and trying to get away from Mount Vesuvius.It was hard to breathe through all the smoke. Obviously the gods were trying to send the people

of Pompeii a message. Maya knew this was not just a normal storm, this was something that had never happened before. When she finally got her legs to move she ran to her house. She ran straight past her weaving in the front yard and ran

through the door. It was empty. Maya searched the house for any sign of life but there was none. Her family had gone. Left her to die. But Maya didn’t give up hope. She

continued searching, tearing through the house, coughing and spluttering, trying to find any clue of where her family had gone. She could’t find anything. She had just

given up hope, when there was a bark at the front door. Maya turned in surprise and saw Ali, barking at her to get out of the house. Maya ran to Ali and gave him a big hug, filled with joy. They went outside to try and find some way to get away from

Pompeii. The smoke had blocked out the sun and it was dark outside. Maya overheard people talking about how this was probably just a storm and it would soon just all go away. But Maya knew that this was no normal storm. Rowboats from other islands around Pompeii that Maya hadn't heard of, were coming in to Pompeii to see

what was wrong. But then something unimaginable happened.

Chapter 4

It started raining. But it was not water falling from the sky. It was rocks. The smoke in the air had seemed to have set hard to make rocks. A rock hit Maya’s head and she

started to bleed. She kept running, not stopping to check her injury. Maya held Ali tighter, tucking him under her jacket to protect him from the rocks. The rocks would not stop falling. She passed by the ruins of her home and slowed down. She could not

bear to leave it behind. It was her only home and it felt like leaving a part of her behind. Ali urged her to keep running and she reluctantly did. Maya turned back to look at Mount Vesuvius and saw something she had not noticed before. Red, liquid was pouring out. She recognized it as something called magna. She had heard of people suffocating in it and it made her run even faster. Maya was running to the

edge of the city, when Ali let out a loud bark. Maya stopped in surprise to see what he wanted. Ali was gesturing towards an abandoned rowboat. Maya realized what he

meant. She ran towards it and tried to lift up the heavy oars. The boat was crumbling underneath the pair but Maya managed to get the oars into place. Ali was barking

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sorry Ali but I can’t get the boat going” Maya whispered to him, tears pouring down her face, from sadness and pain. Ali barked back. That was just enough for her to

gather up the last of her strength push the stiff, heavy oars forward. The boat lurched forwards. Maya was so happy that she got the boat moving, something she has never done before, that it gave her the strength to do it again, and again, and

again, and again.

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When Maya woke, it was dark. Not from smoke; Pompeii was out of sight. Maya sat up and tried to figure out where she was. The little boat was surrounded by black and the sky was full of stars. Maya was still tired but she couldn’t fall asleep. Something

wasn’t right. Then it hit her. Maya was the only person on the boat. Ali had gone. Maya stood up and looked around her. “Ali” she called out but it was no use. Her frail voice got caught by the wind and was carried away. She didn’t know what to do. Maya

was to tired to think and the rocking boat lulled her to sleep. Maya woke again, but this time it was the middle of the day. She was surrounded by a big, blue sea. Maya had to decide where she was going. Then she remembered that Ali was gone. Maya

sat back down but when she did, there was a yelp from beneath her. Ali was curled up there with two fishes next to him and a little pile of fishbones. “Ali, thanks for

bringing breakfast” Maya whispered and realized how dry her throat was. She tried drinking the seawater, but found it salty and disgusting. She was hungry but hated fish. Finally, when she couldn’t bear it any more, she decided to try the fish. But at

that moment, an island appeared in front of them.

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Maya dropped the fish and steered the boat towards the island. Excitement fizzed in her blood and she rowed as hard as she could. Ali barked, happily and Maya tried to calm him down. “Shh Ali, calm down” Maya said “We don’t want to them to think we are dangerous.” They reached the island and the people of the island told them to tie up the boat and join them. “Welcome, to Ventotene!” one of them said. “What are your names?” another asked. “ Our names are Maya and Ali” Maya replied. “What?” said a

voice as a woman pushed through the crowd. “Yes you made it!” the woman said. “What do you mean?” Maya asked the strange woman. “Your mother asked me to see

if you had survived and had come here” the woman said. Maya had so many questions to ask. She started off with asking her what her name was. “My name is

Sophia” the woman said. “How did you know my mother?” “She came to this island when Mount Vesuvius erupted”

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“What did my mother say to you when she was here?” “Your mother left very soon after she arrived to find the rest of your family; they were traveling on different boats. When she was here, we made friends and she asked me to find out if you had survived and to pass on a message to you.”

“What was the message?” Maya asked, excited and scared of the answer. “She asked me to tell you that your family didn’t know that they were leaving you” Sophia said. “They were checking everywhere for you but could’t find you, so they assumed that

you had already gone. But when they got into communication with the other islands nearby, none of them had heard of you. But she did find the rest of your family and

had to go find them. “ Where did she go?” Maya asked. “She found your family all the way at Ponza” Sophia replied. “Would you like for us to send you there?” “Yes please,” Maya said, eagerly. “Ok, we will leave tomorrow”Sophia said. Maya picked Ali up and they followed Sophia inside. Her family was safe, she was safe and Ali was safe. Maya

couldn’t have asked for a better outcome*.

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The Artifacts

Once upon a time there were some aliens that flied to earth and they popped out of their space ship and they went into a house. Then one of them picked up a cup and they didn’t know it was a cup and the next one picked up ear muffs. The third one picked up a walking stick. Then suddenly the girl in the house woke up! Then the girl turned on her light and the aliens got a bit shocked. They went back to their spaceship with their artifacts as fast as lightening. They flew back to their home.

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They presented them to the other aliens and then they said, “What?” Then the others said, “We did all this for nothing. You brought back all these Australian things!”“Its a long story,” the others said.

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Should of expected it!

Once there was a man who was taking out the trash. When he was about to put the garbage bag in the bin he got eaten by a passing monster. He should of expected it living in Monsterville! Once there was a baby crawling around the floor like babies do. Then she sank into the floor, never to be seen again. Her mother was devastated. She should of expected it having a floor made of quick sand!

Once there was a lady who slept so much that she fell into a coma. Everyone thought she was dead, so they donated her heart, then she got buried. She should of expected it leaving a sign on her door saying ‘drop dread gorgeous’!

Once there was a teenage girl who put on heaps of pimple cream that she turned into giant pimple. Then her little brother came and popped her using pimple cream not anti-pimple cream!

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The Artifact

I have never seen these things before. I wonder what they are? I want to figure out what is is?I opened it up and I found a soft bit, and a cord and theres a place to play music.

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NONSENSE POEM

I saw a drink bottle draw on paper I saw an iPad eat a caper

I saw Santa ride a cat to earth I saw Canberra turn into Perth

I saw a kangaroo eat a fridge I saw the troll on top of a bridge

I saw purple break a windowI saw a baby playing bingo

I saw a mouse eat a foxI saw a black board hide in a box

I saw a chair drinking teaI saw a radio make a t.v

I saw a picture walk my dogI saw a castle live in a log I saw water swallow a fishI saw a table serve up dishI saw a week rub out a day

I saw a foot run off and playI saw a pencil sharpen a hand

I saw a rabbit discover new land I saw a cleaner make a mess

I saw my million dollars get less and lessI saw police steal from a robber

I saw a tree called Mr.Cobber I saw a plank of wood make a tart

I saw Mars do a fartI saw a key climb the play ground

I saw a ping-pong table dancing aroundI saw a monster under my bedI saw a caterpillar on my head

I saw a pair of scissors bake a cakeI saw a lyre who did not fakeBY STELLA AND AUDREY

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The Cup and Plate

The PlateIt has swirls and flowers on it.

Two circles like a doughnutFlat and round.

The cup:Its like a measuring cup.It has diamonds, flowers and love heartsIts tall and it has a handleIts pretty.

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Facing the truthBlood gushed from his jarred mouth.I dropped the gun, what have I done?I bent down and put my hands on his chest to see if he was still breathing. Nothing.I stepped away from the lifeless body."Oh my god, I've killed him" I thought.I heard sirens but I didn't know whether to run or stay and face the police.I sat down and thought about it."Is this a dream, is he really dead? Did I actually do this?" I thought.I tried pinching myself to see if I was asleep but I wasn't. It was real. It happened. I killed someone.I reached my hand down to his chest one more time just to check but instead I found something in the pocket of his jacket. It was a note. I didn't know whether to open it because the police were coming closer and closer so I took the letter and ran.I ran and ran and ran until I couldn't run anymore and finally I stopped at a big tree where I could hide and open the note.I unfolded the piece of paper and read the following words.

Dear Alan,I am sorry for the way I have treated you and I am also sorry that we have been in such a bad fight.What I said was a big mistake and I didn't mean to hurt you but I just get so angry and the rage inside me is so bad that I just lash out at whoever I can. So again I am truly, truly sorry.Love John.

I dropped the letter and fell to the ground. I just sat there for ages and ages, just thinking.I looked over and saw a man walking towards me. He looked familiar."So Alan, did you do it?" he asked with a grin on his face."Yes Kevin, I did do it and it wasn't the right thing to do.""What do you mean it wasn't the right thing to do. He said all those mean things to you. Of course it was the right thing to do," Kevin said. I got off the ground and started walking. "Hey! Where are you going?" Kevin asked. "I am going to the police and to do what I should of done before. Face the truth."

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Kaya and Sparrow

Hi, my name is Kaya. Me and Esther were picking berries when Esther said “Will you go look after your brothers, you know how they are after a long journey.” “Yes” I said. Here are 3 good things about having brothers. 1. They play horses with you. 2. They believe you. 3. I don’t know.

As I was walking towards the teepees Wing Feather ran up to me and said “I can’t find Sparrow.” “WHAT?!” “You heard me. I can’t find Sparrow!”

Here are 3 bad things about having brothers. 1. They run away from you. 2. They get you in trouble, and when I say trouble I mean really big trouble. And 3. They fight with you if they’re in a bad mood.

“Where did you see him last?” I asked Wing Feather. “With Totah” He replied. “Where with Totah?”“With Totah spear fishing at the big river,” he said in a small voice.I grabbed Wing Feather’s hand and ran. When we got to the big river I told Wing Feather to stay on a rock away from the men and those big spears. “Stay her!” I yelled over the loud roar of the water, then turned and ran towards Totah. “TOTAH!” I yelled. “We can not find Sparrow. Wing Feather said he saw him with you last. I told Wing Feather to stay on a rock where he would stay out of the men”s way.” “That was yesterday,” he said in a deep voice.

It had been an hour on horse back and it was getting dark and the sun was low. “Sparrow Sparrow Sparrow!!!!!!!” Totah yelled over and over. “Kaya stay here. I am going to see if I can find him in the bushes ok? 5 or 10 mins later Totah came back to me holding something. “Sparrow!” I said.“Shhhhhhhh,” he said. I felt a shiver of relief go down my back. I slipped of my horse and ran to my brother. He had mud smeared on his face. I just had to hug him. “You’re safe,” I whispered.

When we get back to the warm teepees, Esther is making finger buns. When she saw us, she hugged all of us and we were together again.

!the end.Bella Moyle

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Frederickson

The fuzz are here. I grab a bag full of money and sprint and jump through a small window in the back of the security room. I land in an alley on the north side of the bank. I crouch down and move towards the side of the wall. i run out on to the street. I see the cops enter the bank. I hear a noise come from the back of the alley. I turn around and there is the rest of my team and they have got the rest of the bags. We all move to a nearby alley on the other side of the street. I shoot one of the cops. He falls to the ground. We move to the street next to us. We turn in o a larger alley where our van is parked. A cop comes up behind us. I turn and hit him in the face with my pistol. I get in the driver’s seat. The others get in the back. I turn the ignition. The van’s motor starts and we drive away, 130,000,000 million dollars richer, 1 year and 80 successful heists our names unknown.

Its Tuesday 5th of October 2016... down town Abbotsford St... jewelry store... an alarm goes off! “Grab the bags and lets go!” “The fuzz are going to be here soon!” “Get down! The cops are here!”Smash! The glass shatters. I duck down and move towards the grate power switch to lock the windows. I shut the windows and move to behind the counter and aim my machine gun at the door. A smoke grenade rolls along the ground and puff the smoke fills the room. I turn on the light on my gun and shoot at the doorway. I hear a body fall. My team mates have the bags. There is one left for me. They cover the doors while I go and get my bag and meet them at the south window. We clamber out the window and out into the alley, where I walk on to the street. I start shooting and a car blows up. We sprint and make it into our van. We throw our bags in the back and get in and drive away.

Abbotsford Police Station“Sir! A person has just transferred three hundred thousand dollars into an off shore account, name: Fredrickson.’ “Can you find him?”“Sir! He is in Yorkshire, sir.” “Contact the local police and tell them to bring him to us at Yorkshire police station.”“Yes.” “Ok I am sending a senior badge to go collect him. Jones.”“Yes sir!” ‘I need you to go collect Frederickson.”“Ok.”

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“Take 101, Jones.” said the chief. I walk up to the key holder and take the one marked 101, then I walk to the car and get in. I take a left on First St, then left again on to Pragram Rd and drive straight for maybe 10 mins. I turn right on to Woodle Lane and there is his house. “I see it, i’m approaching the house.” Knock, knock, knock! “Who’s there?”

Frederickson

Sgt. Jones opens the door.“One second please.”“Sure.” @#$%^, I say under my breath. I grab my gun and put my silencer on it and walk back to the door. I open the door concealing the pistol.“Come with me, sir.”“Ok.”

He walks me out the door and to the car door. I open the door. He walks round the other side. I stand up pulling the pistol from my pocket. I shoot the officer in the shoulder. I walk around the car bonnet. I aim my pistol at the cop. I walk round to the open door. I shoot the cop in the head. I pull the man out of the car and drag him across the gravel and dump him in a bin. I walk around my house to where there is a old Mercedes Benz. I walk around to the front door and open my safe. I grab three bags and fill two bags with money and the last bag with clothes and guns and then I grab two suit cases and fill them with the rest of my stuff. I take my keys and walk back to the car and open the bonnet and chuck my stuff in the back and set charges around the house. I get in the car and drive on to the street. I hit the button on my phone and the house blows up in flames. I drive away. I grab my phone and conference call the gang.“I was hit by the police this morning. Meet at the museum.” “Ok.” “I’ll be there.” “Me, as well.” “See you all there.” I push the acceleration peddle. I drive to the museum.

30 mins later I reach the museum. I drive around the back of the museum and park my car and get out. I walk up to the doors and push through. I walk into the foyer and see them all. “We need to disappear. The cops have found our houses.”

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“Why?”“Because otherwise you will be hunted down and killed!” “We are going to do one more job that will set us for life.”“What’s the take?”“7 figures each.” “Whats the job?” “The Bank of London, the Bank of Australia and the Bank of Japan all at the same time. Then we disappear forever.”“We’ll need gun, emc jammers, masks, lots of ammunition, body armour, floor plans and a lot of luck!!who’s in?” “Me!” “Same!” “Me to!” “Well lets get started. Monday 5 of November. London. We need guns. I’ll order them from America. Order body armor as well. Floor plans, done. Jammers, I’ll go now to the electronics shop and get a signal jammer. Medical equipment. All the guns and body armor will arrive 2 two weeks from now. “Good. We need to be ready in two weeks from now.”“In London you cant get signal jammers.”“Well find another way. You two go to the hospital and steal six medical packages. The nearest hospital is five kilometers from here. Take the van but change the number plate over.”“Ok.”

two hours later “Got the medical packages!”

four days later “Time to look at those plans, good.” “Ok”“thats good” brr brrrr brrrrrrr “Are we expecting a call?” “No” I pick up the phone. “Mister Berks office.” I say. “How can i help you?” “Cut the crap,” says the voice on the phone. “Who is this?” I say. “Come to the train station!” The phone goes dead.I put the phone down. “Lets go see what that was about. Grab your gear. Let’s go.” We walk outside.

16 minutes later

“We’re here.”

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I put my mask on and hold my pistol up at the door of a train. I see someone. I open the door. I keep walking. My friends follow me. I hear the door close. I crouch down and move in the back part of the train where I see a dark figure standing with three others all holding smg’s. I shine my torch on the first man’s face. “Lower it a little would you?” “Whats your name?” I ask.“Why are you wearing a clown mask?” “Coz I don’t trust you.”“We likewise. Well I asked you a question. “My name, it’s Robert and what the @#$%^ did you call me up for?” “Because your on our turf.” “So” “If your doing a job we want a cut like 45%!”“No! What makes you thing that I would not just kill you right now?” i say with aggression. “Because you’re not going to kill us coz if you do try, we’ll kill you!!” With that word, a single bullet flies past my head. I drop to the ground and roll behind a row of seats. I pull my pistol out and shoot one of the men in the leg. I shoot him again in the head. The rest of my team have started firing and there is only three of them left. I stand up as the man on the right drops to the floor. I move closer to the remaining men. A stream of bullets fly through window. Smashing the glass with my pistol, I shoot at the man. I hit him in the shoulder and killing him i move in to the door way. Thats them all!! Grab their guns I say and anything that might be of use.We collect all the guns and body armor and walk back to the van where there is another one of their men standing there with a semi auto rifle. I stop dead still. I hear the sound of a bullet fire. The man in front of me falls to the ground. I stop and turn to see one of colleges with a m16 and the site to their eye.“Thanks,” I say. We keep walking to the van. We load all the weapons and things into the back of the van and drive take to Dean Street and then take the overpass. We reach the office and I drive into the under garage and unload the van.

Wednesday 12th november We have one week left till the big heist. “Is everything set utilities wise?”Almost. The jammers are not here yet.”“How long till they get here.” “Two days.” “Good. We need to scope the place out. We will send a team to the bank tomorrow to scope the perimeter out. Only bring a fake wallet and ID card. No guns.”

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“Would you like to make a withdrawal,” says a man at the contour. We walk into the bank. I see through the doors that there’s a camera on the left of me and on the right. I keep walking to the desk. “Where’s your men’s room?” “Down the corridor to your right.”“Thanks.” I walk, following his instructions, but I turn left into a meeting room. There’s a camera. Its got a window in the back of the room that opens on to a side alley. Perfect! I close the door and walk out into the main foyer where there is a balcony. I find the elevator and hit 2. There is a camera in the elevator and three more on the balcony, but it is a perfect place to shoot from. Its directly in front of the main door. I watch as my team walk out the door. I run down the stairs and out the door. “Are we done with scoping out?”“Yes.” Two days later “The jammers are here.” “Good, hook them up to the charger. How many jammers did we order?” “Twelve, three for each of us.” “Did you make sure that the ammunition arrived?” “Yes it did.”“Excellent. The body armour is here as well”.

Four days later Tuesday 15 november “Today we get rich. This is the plan. We enter from the back in the employees entrance. Kill anybody who sees you with out your mask on. Ok when you get to the first room, place a jammer and kill the cameras. Take the back half of the bank and take hostages. Then go for the guards. Get the security card and lock all doors. Then take the front of the bank. Set up the drill. Next you put all the hostages in a room together. Then start the patrol and wait until the drill is done. Then one person leaves out the back and gets the van. Meanwhile we will bag the money and meet you at the back seven eleven. Then the rest of us will bomb the place and meet you at the seven eleven and disappear forever! “How’s that sound?” “Great!”“Perfect!”“Doable!” “Well lets do it!” Awesome! Music plays)

23 minutes later “Where here. Lets go!”We walk in stealthily. I place a jammer. I hit the camera. It falls dead. Steam pours out of it. We keep walking.“Get down!!”

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Three civilians get to their knees. We keep walking. I see my team mate place another jammer. I see a guard. I shoot at him. He falls to the ground. I shuffle through his pockets. He’s got the security card. I find the door while one of the others bag the man and chuck him in a bin. I go to the door and there is the controller for the cameras. I switch off the cameras and lock the doors and move into the main foyer where one of my team mates goes and grabs the drill. I place a jammer and crouch as I move into the main foyer where “Get down!!!” I say in a angry tone. “Get down!!!” I hear gunshot fire. I look to see one of my team mates have shot a guard. We handcuff some civilians and put them all in a room and lock the door. The drill starts and its got three minuets left until the drill is finished. “Go get the van,” I say.“Ok” I hear the sirens of the police. The drill has one minute to go. I hear the van pull up at the back door. “Come on!!” Forty seconds until the drill is done bag the money while i jig this place full of bombs “Lets go!” “Ok.” We leave the bombs strapped to the computers. We walk out the back where there is a team of SWAT. We shoot at them. As we clamber into the back of the van, three of the SWAT fall as a bullet slams into their legs. There’s one left. I fire a shot and it hits him in the head.“Go, go, go!!! I say, closing the back door. I switch the number plate of the van. “Where to?” I say. “Boston,” they say in unison. And we left 22 million pounds RICHER!!!

the end

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Lost

He was in the middle of nowhere, with no one but himself.And then he saw a riverBut no he hadn’t.He hadn’t walked that far.He had only walkedFrom his home town.He realised he was lost.

He came from PakistanIt was war torn.

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The Tracks

I’m on the streets assessing my targets. There is a tourist in a bar falling over drunk, showing off a golden watch, and two guards guarding a locked room and the bedroom upstairs, in the bar. First the bedroom.I go round the back and up the bad brick-work. Then I remembered the biggest mistake of my life. I had to repress it to prevent me from slipping. I get to the window. It easily slides open. I go inside and take off my backpack and slide all items of value into it. But as I start climbing out the window, the door opens. I get ready to fight, dagger in hand, ready to fight. But its the drunk tourist, so I hide in the shadows. Then he puts his watch down and collapses on the bed. I quickly snatch it and climb down the wall.I start to laugh at how easy that was. Then I hear the alert bell. Police are rushing down the alley beside the one I’m in. They don’t notice me but I’m still in the danger zone. “The building these men were guarding” I whisper to myself in epiphany???I sprint down the alley way but still keeping in the shadows, Then I hear the worst thing a thief can hear. I was being identified.“Yes. John Walcroft. Age 19”

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Pledge“10” I grip on to the safety bars9...8...My crew are in their safety belts.7...6...5...4...3...2...1Blast off!

Part one

I’m at Washington DC. “We will pick ten men to go to Mars. Five of them will go on the planet,” said the president.“You!”“Yes,” I say.“You shall be the captain.”“Thank you,” I say.Nine other men were picked. Their names were Bob, Ned, Jack, Tom, Tod, Ted, Ben, Mat, Hugo (and that is me) and Angelo.We go to Destination Mars launcher and hop in.

10... I grip on to the safety bars.9...8...My crew are in their safety belts.7...6...5...4...3...2...1Blast off!I grip the bars as hard as I can. My bones are practically out of my skin and on the bars.BOOM!!!“You may take off your safety belts.”“Arrrrrrr!!!!!!” screamed Tom. “I’m floating!!”Tom was plump with muscle like his twin Ted.

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I’ve been two days in Hell and we are still high on food and water. We are voyaging at high speed.Two days until landing but little did we know that we would run out of fuel. Two hours later came the truth. We are low on fuel.

“Where are we?”BOOM!!!!“We are on Mars,” said Tom.“Are we?” whispered Matt, who was scared of a lot of things.And I don’t see why he is an astronaut.I hear a sizzling noise. ‘ssssssssssss.’

The air lock opens.I say, “One small step for Man, ay?”“We are the 2nd men to go on a different planet.”KERBOOOOM!!!!The engines broken,” I say.“We are stuck,” I say.“HELP!!!!” said Angelo.

Part Two

“We’re running out of air,” said Ted, two hours later. We found some sort of hole.

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“Lets go down,” said five of us.“No,” said the others.So some of us went. I decided to go down and we saw some light and some shadows.“Our radar says ‘Earthlings have come,’” said a voice.The only reason we could hear this was that we had translaters in our helmets.

“BEEP BEEP BEEP” said their radar.“Well it looks like a tea party has come,” said the shadow and looked at us.It looked like a crocodile crossed with a duck. It looked gross like slimy old poop.“Yuk!” said Tod.

...to be continued

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2023 Round 6 Hawthorn vs FreemantleWhen I came out on to the ground I was nervous because Freo came off three wins and we've come off with two wins. The siren sounds. I get the ball and pass to my full forward. It doesn't go the distance so he crumbs it and snaps a goal.'Back to the centre!' says the umpire. Freo get the centre clearance , they hand pass to the wing player. He boots it to their full forward but our fullback punches it through for a behind. Our full back boots it forward. I mark it in the middle and play on. I take three bounce passes. My full forward marks the ball and scores a goal. First quarter done. It is William Governlock's 250th game.

Second quarter on the way.The ball up goes. I get the ball and kick it 80 metres and it goes straight through the goals. In the ball up I get knocked off the ball. I play on, run twenty metres and two bounces and handball to my centre half forward. He boots and it hits the posts. Freo take the kick to their centre half back. He handballs it to their wing man. He runs 25 metres and they kick it to their full forward and marks it. He shanks it for a point. We take the kick and the siren sounds.

Third quarter on the way.

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Ball up goes. I get the ball and hand ball to my ruck man. He boots it to the full forward. It goes over his head and through the goals. That was a massive 70 metre kick. 'Back to the centre!' says the umpire. Ball up goes.Freo get the ball and I tackle them.'Holding the ball!,' says the umpire.One of my players runs past me. I hand pass it to them. We do the one, two. I get tackled but I shrug it off and sprint off 80 metres to full forward and boot it through the goal. When the ball goes the siren sounds.

Fourth quarter on the way.'Here we go!' Says the umpire.I get the centre clearance. I pass to my wingman and he just gets rid of it. It bounces very well for me. I have to boot it quickly because I was about to get tackled. The kick doesn't go too far so I sprint to get the ball. I knew they weren't going to catch me. I'm getting really tired but I don't give up. I'm still running. There are 10 seconds left. I boot the ball to the goals but it's swinging. It bounces through the goal with two seconds left. Hawks win by 29 points.

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I was sitting in my bedroom and I saw a little movement. 'A Ghost!' I yelled. And that's all I remember. I heard someone screaming and I stood up. I walked up to where I saw the movement. I saw a shadow on the other side of the room. I heard the scream. I sensed something behind me. I screamed. Something pinched me. I was scared. I knew it was a ghost. No this is just a dream. Or is it. I turned, I saw a flicker of a shadow. I was pushed. I fell and hit my head. I ran down the hall. My mind was blank, I had forgotten everything. I ran outside. I saw a full moon, I saw shadows everywhere. I thought I had lost my mind.I screamed, 'It's just a dream!'I felt pain down my spine. It was pitch dark. I sensed things creeping up behind me. It must be a ghost! I heard a creak! I saw a shadow, a ghost!!!! It hovered closer. And I screamed again,'It's just a dream!!!'I charged at the ghost. It's supposed to fade away. But it didn't. I don't know why. I was punched back. I wake properly. It was just a dream.

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I am a sketch. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? I’ll make it easier for you, here is a picture of me

O /|\ / \ Yes, I am a stickman.It’s hard being a sketch on a piece of paper, I mean, one minute someone has drawn a beautiful house on an amazing mountain with an amazing view, the next they draw a stupidly big tree that blocks your view of the amazing mountains in the background.Recently, someone drew a house next to the ocean for me to live in, then their younger sibling got hold of a pencil and drew a heap of zombies, sharks and anything that could potentially harm or kill someone= outside my house! Right now I’m hiding in my basement, waiting for someone to draw me a better house.It’s hard being a stickman.

Gun'Tobng'Pelicans

By'Finn

On'a'beaubful'morning'when'the'sun'was'sparkling'on'the'ocean'at'Philip'Island…

“BAM”'went'the'roar'of'machine'guns.'

“What'the'****!!”'yelled'an'old'man.

“Holy'****'this'is'crazy”'said'a'woman'that'had'shopped'at'BEEMO.

The'sky'was'white'with'pelicans?

But'the'pelicans'had'machine'guns'and'the'pelicans'weren’t'aiming'for'people'but'at'the'bridge!!

To'be'conbnued….

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