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PR- Period 2

Orville And The Giant Cookie

My name is Orville. I live with my mom, alone at our house is the middle of town. I am 20 years old; but when this happened I was merely 8. I had always been a child with a sweet tooth until then. I’m sure you will think I’m strange, but to this day I can’t eat a cookie. I will now tell you a story, listen please although it may have to effect on you I still wish to tell it. One day after dinner I really wanted a cookie.
“Mom I want a cookie!” I said.
“No! If you eat a cookie now you’ll have nightmares,” my mother replied.
I became frustrated with this. As I had behaved all day, and I had no need for such a decree. I had eaten sweets before bed and never had nightmares!
After my mother finished the dishes I snuck into the kitchen when she was watching TV. I opened the cookie with a small “CLICK!” I searched around for the most gluttonous cookie in sight. After finding it, I ate it in a split second. I then went to bed and fell asleep fast, as I’m sure if you were there within seconds you would hear “Zzzz…”
In my dream I was at home and just finished dinner. I went for the cookie jar and heard a growl from the jar. “Grrrr,” I heard from the jar. But although it seemed weird, I did not hesitate to open the jar.. As soon as it was open, a monster jumped out! It, than monster cookie, was as large as an elephant!
I turned and ran towards the door then veered outside. As I ran I yelled at the monster “Leave me alone!” but it would not… As I ran down the street it got closer, and closer until it finally grabbed me! “Noooooo!” I screamed. But it still ate me whole.
The next morning I sat across the table from my mom eating breakfast.
“How did you sleep?” she asked me.
“Fine,” I lied. All I could think of was the dream. As I got up to leave my mother said that she put a cookie in my lunch; this drove me off the edge.
“Mom,” I said guiltily, “I stole a cookie last night, I don’t deserve another.”
“I’m proud that you told me but disappointed that you disobeyed me,” Mother answered abruptly. “As punishment for your antics you will receive no cookies for three weeks,” she added.
For the next three weeks she kept a vigil watch over me creating a detriment for me obtaining another cookie. After those three weeks, I still went nowhere near the cookie jar for fear the monster would be there…
THE END

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JE – Period 2

The Good Samaritan”
By: JE

One day, in the winter Steve was walking home from school. Steve lives in Miami, Florida. In Florida it is very hot, even in the winter. Steve is a very bright and smart kid, which may have caused some friend problems. Everyone made fun of him calling him a geek and “four eyes”. As I was saying when Steve got home there were a lot of boxes and bags all over the place.
“What’s all of this?” asked Steve.
“Steve,” said his mom, “we are moving to New Jersey.”
“Why? I like it here,” said Steve.
“We have to because of the economy.”
The next day the moving truck came and off they went to New Jersey. On the way, Steve was thinking that if he is going to a new place, there should be a “new him.” When they got to Florham Park, New Jersey, they got to their house and unpacked and went to bed. The next morning, Steve woke up and started the “new him.” Steve went into the bathroom, took of his glasses, put contacts in. Then Steve wet his hair, took gel, and flipped up his hair. When Steve was done creating the “new him.” he went downstairs to have breakfast.
His mom looked at him and said, “ Well this is a new look for you sweetie.”
“Thanks mom, just want to try something new.”
“Well I like it I think you should keep it.”
So after breakfast, Steve was off to school. The school was called Ridgedale Middle School. It was a very nice school Steve thought to himself. Steve got out of the car and everyone looked at him. Some people were whispering; now he was really nervous.
At the end of the first day Steve didn’t make any friends. When he got home his mom made him a snack. “I am not hungry,” complained Steve.
“What is wrong sweetie?” asked mom.
“I have no friends. I changed my look, but still no friends.”
“Don’t worry you will be patient.” replied mom.
The next day Steve was a little more confident. So the next day Steve woke up and did everything he did the day before. When Steve arrived at school, a boy came up to Steve and started talking to him. His name was Jeff. Jeff and Steve became friends, but at the end of school the cool kids came up to Steve and introduced themselves. The leader of the cool kids was Bob.
After talking to them for a while the cool kids asked him to go to the mall with them tomorrow and Steve said, “Ok.”  The next day after school Steve met up with the guys. Bob, Steve, and the guys went to the mall and started to hang out.
When they went into the candy store at the Livingston Mall, Bob whispered, “Hey guys check this out.” Bob went up to the Sour Patch Kids bucket and ate an entire bag that he had swiped.
“Isn’t that stealing?” whispered Steve.
“Your point?” stated Bob.
“ Nothing, I guess,” fretted Steve.
So that day, Bob and his friends stole a lot but Steve stole nothing. When Steve got home his mother asked, “How are the new friends?” Steve just sighed and went to his room.
The next morning Bob went up to Steve and said, “Let’s hang today.”
“Can’t man. I am hanging with Jeff today. He doesn’t steal like the rest of you.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” hissed Bob
“I don’t hang with convicts, ” demanded Steve.
“ If you rat on me you will not know what hit you the next time.” threatened Bob. Bob walked away with his possy. Later that day Steve and Jeff were hanging and Steve told Jeff every thing. Jeff got an idea. Jeff told Steve his genius plan. “This just might work,” smiled Steve.
The next day Steve explained to Bob that he was messing around. They went to the mall and Steve said, “Lets steal!”
“Shhhhh,” said Bob.
So when Bob went to go steal something Steve got a cop and the cop caught Bob. “You’re in huge amount of trouble.”
said the cop. Jeff and Steve each got a $100 dollars for catching him. Then Jeff and Steve became friends forever.

The end

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CL- Period 2

Hi my name is Cristina.   I am going on vacation with my cousin Paul. I am 14 and I’ll turn 15 in a few weeks.

It all started when Paul called Cristina.

“Hey what are you doing next Saturday?” asked Paul.

“I don’t know why?” asked Cristina.

“I was going to see if you wanted to go to a hotel or something with me and my brother Chris and I, said Paul.

“Ok my brother will pick you up around 5:00”

“Ok.”

The next day Paul and Chris picked Cristina at her house. So they all got in the car and they started driving. Five hours later they finally got to where they wanted to go. They checked into the hotel and they went to the manager and they asked for a room.

“Hello can we please have a room for three?” said Chris.

“ I’m sorry, the only room we have left is room number 1405.”yeiled the manager.

“ We will take it.” agreed Cristina

“You cant. No one has been in that room for myriad of years.”

“Were going to take the room! We don’t care we just need a room.” yelled Chris. We are all audacious.

“Fine. You can have the room but only for a night” said the manager. The manager was being very willful.

Chris and Paul both a agreed “deal!!!”

That night we all went into the room and the lights started flickering on and off. Then all of a sudden, “Ahhhhh!

Paul was grappled.

I heared Paul scream. After ten minutes he stopped. Then all of a sudden I start hearing my name. “Cristina Cristina!”

“Who is that?”

“Cristina your cousin died. Paul is dead!!!!”

“No he’s not. He’s right next to me.”

A few minutes later the lights start going on and off again. And I go CRAZY. When the lights finally stopped flickering I went to bed. I was so skittish I just went to bed.

That night I had a dream that I was going to a hotel with my two cousins Paul and Chris, and I had a dream what actually happened. Then when I woke up I found out it was all a dream and I saw Paul and Chris both sleeping. Chris was on the floor and Paul was right next to me. The next morning we all went to pack up and we went home.

“Hey Cristina.”

“Yea Paul?”

“We should defiantly come back to this hotel next year”

“ I’ll think about that”

So they all went into the car and drove home.

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JC- Period 2

Crystal and Red finally decided to go on a road trip. We have been thinking about it for two months. But we had no time in the last two months. On our way there we stopped at a hotel called Hilton Hotel. We had gotten to the hotel. When we checked in we had to go to the top floor and room 1408. We had been scared of the movie 1408 because some one had been murdered in it.
Crystal my friend asked, “Can we have a room for two please?”
“Yes,” said hotel manager.
“Thank you very much,” said Crystal.
Red said, “I’m so excited to go on this trip!
“This hotel room is very nice”, replied Red.
Crystal agreed, “Wow your right this hotel room is nice.”
It was now 7:00pm; they were very tired. Red told Crystal that we should stay another night tomorrow so they can catch up on their sleep. Then, they should leave on Sunday and continue their road trip to Six Flags Great Adventure. It was now 10:00pm. Crystal had been sleeping.
Crystal whispered, “Finally Red is a sleep.”
“It was now time,” said Crystal.
“Time for what?” moaned Red.
The lights had been off. Red looked out into the hallway of the hotel and the lights where still on. She went back into the hotel room, and she tried to turn on the lights but they wouldn’t turn on. Red was very scared.
Red screamed, “Crystal! Crystal! Where are you?”
Crystal had jumped out of now were and pushed her out of the window. They had been on the 14th floor.
Crystal had looked out the window and yelled, “Finally my work is done!”
All of the sudden Crystal saw that the lights where flickering on and off. It started to thunder and lighting. Crystal had been very scared and worried what was going to happen next. All of the sudden she heard a girl screaming.
Crystal cried, “That sounds like Red screaming, maybe she is coming back to haunt me?”
Crystal was standing on the ledge looking to see if her friend was there; Red was gone. Crystal turned around and saw Red standing behind her and Red pushed her off the edge.
Crystal woke up. It was all a dream she looked over at Red and she was asleep in her bed. The next morning they decided to leave and finish their road trip to Six Flags Great Adventure.
Red said, “Crystal what’s wrong?”
Crystal replied, “Nothing I just had a bad dream last night.”
Red screamed, “Look we’re here finally! That was a fun road trip, lets go in!”
Crystal replied, “Ok lets go!”

KS Period 2

The Haunting of the Cookie Jar

Hi my name is Bryan, Bryan Smith. I am 23 years old, but I was only 6 when this very funny incident happened.
It was the perfect morning. I had just woken up from a long nap. It was a beautiful Saturday. I loved Saturdays because today was the day that we got to take three cookies from the cookie jar, and I was so excited to get my share of cookies. It was in the middle of the night and my mom was still sleeping through the whole day. We think that she took too many sleeping pills.
So we rushed into my moms room to wake her up.
“ Mom wake up,” I yelled in a very loud voice.
“What do you want boys?” Mom yawned.
“Can we get our cookies from the cookie jar?” I shrieked.
“Sure ahead now leave me alone,” Mom yawned.
“ Thank you so much you won’t regret it.” I said.
But of course she was going to regret it. My brother and I rushed into the kitchen using teamwork to get to the top of the fridge. I was two years older than him so I got on my knees and hands all fours on the ground. My brother stood on top of my back.
Oh and in case you haven’t noticed, yes we have done this before. Anyway we grabbed the cookie jar and sat it on the table. My brother grabbed his three and went up stairs to play video games. I reached in and pulled out my three cookies, but I noticed that one of the cookies had another cookie attached to it so I said.
“Oh its just one cookie. “So I took it and yes I knew that I got four cookies but I thought oh its just three cookies. So I went into the living room and ate my cookies. But I did not know that that cookies that little cookie would haunt me till this day of my life at the age of 23 I still live with the guilt of that one cookie. My mom at the time was very serious about how many cookies we got from the cookie jar.
So I was very scared that I would get caught.
“Goodnight mom,”
I yelled down the stairs.
It was about 9:30 when I went to bed. That night I had a very scary dream.
All of the sudden I’m in a big cookie costume and there is a big giant green cookie monster chasing me yelling “COOKIE! COOKIE! COOKIE!” The monster was as big as a giant skyscraper! I started running because this was too weird. It chased me still yelling that chant! All of a sudden, he grabbed me and stuffed me into his mouth. It chewed me until I resembled a blob! Then I woke up in a cold sweat; I had wet the bed. I did not sleep at all that night. I was so filled with guilt from taking that fourth cookie. It was 7 o’clock in the morning I could hear my mom cooking breakfast. I rushed down stairs and ran up to my mom and hugged her.
“Mom! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” I yelled.
“What happened?” mom screamed in fear.
“I took a fourth cookie out of the cookie jar I’m
“Sorry,” I said again.” I had horrible nightmares.”
As mom took her hand off her chest, she smiled and served me breakfast.
“I’m not in trouble?” I said.
“I think you already had your punishment, “she said.
I had learned my lesson the hard way. And I had never stole anything else again till this day.

The End

AD- Period 2

The Dog Who Gets Killed
by AJD

Da da da!
The piano is playing fierce music. It’s a normal backyard except it has a cemetery across the street. A sinister horse rides along the street, and a ghost flies across the back lawn. It is spooky. My black and white dog keeps on bothering my neighbor. The dog keeps on bothering him for food. He whimpers and jumps on him. My neighbor kills my dog by stabbing him in the head. The ghost of the dog bothers him forever. He starts to feel guilty. When he first came, The neighbor and I were good friends. We would go over each other’s houses. We used to play board games and eat chips.
“Hey Harold, where did you first live?” I said.
He said, “I used to live in Alabama. I used to have fun in Alabama. I wish I was still there.”
“Hey do you want to meet my dog?”
Then Harold says, “Sure.”
I bring my dog over and he starts to jump all over him.
“Get your dog off my lawn otherwise I’ll kill it!” I got my dog off his lawn before he could shoot it.
Later my dog was hungry because we didn’t have any money and we didn’t have any food. My dog goes over to my neighbor’s house and starts to jump on him and he whimpers and cries. My neighbor warns me and says, “Get this dog off my lawn before I kill it.” We got away.
At night when I went to sleep my neighbor came out and killed my dog and put somewhere where I couldn’t find it. The neighbor put my dead dog inside my garage. I couldn’t find my dog anywhere. The next morning my neighbor was acting really nice. I was trying to figure out why. I searched and searched until I looked inside the garage and found him dead.
I went up to my neighbor’s house and knocked on the door. He came to the door and said May I help you? I said yes why did you kill my dog?, “Because he was bothering him so much.”
I called the cops and said my neighbor killed my dog. The policeman said, “What is the neighbor’s name?” I said,” his name is Harold. Then they said where do you live? I said I live on 103 Lincoln Ave. The police took him to jail and was sentence to 20 years in prison.

AR…Period 2

The Mother Wolf And Baby Wolf

I went to jail because I killed a mother wolf.  I’m in jail for two years. The jail is very cold and it is made of steel.  It is very depressing for me.

One night I went hunting for deer, but I saw a wolf and it came after me. The mother wolf jumped on top of me. I tried to get her off of me, but I couldn’t. I yelled, “ Get off of me!” She didn’t get off, so I stabbed and mortal her two times and she splattered blood all over the ground.

I got up and I went to see if the wolf was still alive. The wolf was alive and I noticed a baby wolf looking at what I had done. The baby wolf came toward me and tried to bite me.  I started running toward my house, and he came through the window. I went to the basement and locked the door.  The baby wolf was still upstairs. I slept in the basement all night, waiting for the baby wolf to leave.

The next day I went upstairs to see if he was still there, and he was sleeping on the sofa.  I went to take a shower and when I came out, he was sitting by the door.  He frightened me and I then jumped and topple through the window.  This is when the wolf started to chase me and I yelled, “Help me, please help me, I’m being chased by a wolf!”
I was able to get away and go to a police station and told them what happened, and they told me I had to turn myself in since I killed a mother wolf. They told me I had to go to jail for two years.

Here I am in jail talking about the story of me killing a mother wolf and I’m driven crazy. The baby wolf is always in my dreams haunting me. I can’t sleep at night because I think about the baby wolf a lot.

KP…Period 2

A Deadly Trick

Hoot hoot hoot! The owl kept saying hoot hoot hoot.  It was a dark night. My family was moving to a new house.  I did not want to move but we did anyway.  I was not happy.  People had told me that  the house was haunted and it had a graveyard in the backyard.  My parents did not believe in ghosts.
The first time I played a good trick on  my father and hid in the graveyard.   He came running and looking for me.  I yelled, “Help! Help! There’s a ghost!”  “Where are you, where are you?” my father said.  He found me and said, “never do that again.”
The second time I tried to hide in the graveyard the weather at night was stormy.    I went out and  found a good hiding spot.  I yelled, “help me, help me, I’m very scared “so my father found me and said, “if you do this again, I will not come out” and I thought to myself, I’ll see about that.  The third time was the scariest night of all.  It was windy, raining, lightning, and thundering.  I went outside but this time there was a killer in the graveyard.  I went to hide in the back of the graveyard.  I’m about to yell then I saw the killer. He had a knife and I’m yelling and running and can’t see where I’m going while he is still running after me.  My father is not coming because he thinks it is a trick.

The killer jumps in front of me and  stabs me to death.  The next day my father came outside and said, “Kevin, where are you?”  My parents found my dead body in the back of the graveyard the next day.  They called the cops  and three days later, the killer was found and went to jail for life.