Illustrated and written By Nashaly

Caldwell-Marrero

Kamry Logan

Present day Korea...

It was a calm afternoon in North Korea, when Elliot thought

where he lived wasn’t enough. “Look at all these unnecessary

trees”, Elliot said. “I haven’t eaten a healthy Ash tree in ages,”

I’M ELLIOT THE EMERALD ASH BORER I NEED TO

MUNCH ON A TREE!”

Elliot is known to always looking for trouble. He glances at

a packaging truck ready to leave, so he decides to leave on

one of the boxes being placed on the truck.” Good bye

home I’m off to eat better and healthier trees!”

FIREWOOD

Elliot didn’t care where he was heading all he

wanted was to eat a healthy, tall, innocent tree.

FIREWOOD

Elliot and the Firewood where dropped from the

truck in front of the Log Cabin. “What a sight!”

Its like a buffet around here, this environment

looks calm and organized, “Just wait...in a few

months this will all be mine!”, Elliot shouted.

Ooo this tree looks delicious, it’s gigantic and its leaves are just

perfect! Elliot tries to take a bite. Wait! What are you doing

sir?!

“Uh nothing I’m just a Forest inspector“ Elliot lied. “I’m here to

check your growth or whatever”. The tree wasn’t sure if Elliot

was telling the truth or not but still believed him. “Oh, okay…

will this hurt?”

“Of course not! I didn’t catch your name tree?”, El-

liot asked. The tree replied,” My name is Ronny and

this is my family, The whole entire Forest, I've

been—Elliot interrupted.” Well let me get started

then.”

Elliot digs into the tree, and as he does, he leaves a

sideways letter D after him. After a few months Ronny

starts changing, he was growing branches from the bot-

tom and the leaves on top were completely gone. The

trees were beginning to ask questions and became wor-

ried about Ronny’s health.

Elliot was actually stopping Ronny from getting any

nutrients like the sunlight. If only that tree knew

what he was getting into.