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Original Stories
The Music Trials
by Max, age 8, New Jersey
One day, a kid named Jack woke up. He was excited. He was excited because he was old enough to go to the music trials. The music trials are when you have to play all the different instruments. Jack ran over to the trial houses. Then he started Trial 1, which is the percussion trial. Next, he went to the 2nd trial, which is strings. Then, he went to the 3rd trial: woodwinds. Then, he went to the 4th trial, which is brass. He got them all right! He was a music master! THE END
Anti-Body Man
by Blain, age 9, Pennyslvania
Once upon a time in a galaxy far away there was a bacteria cell zapped by a shrink ray and it got bigger. And then one day, someone named Max went to that planet to study it. He was a NASA scientist. So, he landed on the planet. Then he saw something weird in the distance, he used his jet pack to fly closer, and he saw that it was a huge bacteria thing. He tried to escape, but he quickly realized his rocket ship was out of fuel. So he had to stay on plant Bacteria2. His space suit protected him from the bacteria, but there were others who took off their space suits after learning there was enough oxygen to breathe without them. Unfortunately, this caused them to become very sick, with no cure in sight. So Max the NASA scientist decided to go on a mission to find a cure for those brave souls who had come to study this strange planet. During his mission, he didn’t find a cure right away, but he did find another rocket ship. He used the computer in his space suit to find out if there were any bacteria in the ship, and the computer found none. Max knew it was safe to enter. Max started the rocket and set his course for planet earth. He found a decontaminated space suit that would never hold new bacteria, it had a bacteria shield. After he put on the bacteria suit, he began to explore the ship to see if there was anything else helpful on board.¬¬¬Max looked around the ship and he found a door marked, “Janitor’s Closet” he slowly opened the door surprised to find it was unlocked, and he peeked inside. It was dark, but he reached his hand inside and felt the switch-he decided to use his space suit to scan for danger. His suit said, “Safe, you may proceed,” so he turned on the light and found a squirt bottle. It read, bacteria killer, use in space suit only. He put it in his space suit, and suddenly he felt so powerful he could save the people on bacteria2. But by the time he reached bacteria2 the bacteria had covered the whole planet, and no one knew what to do. When Max reached bacteria2 he found out that the bacteria made a shield out of it’s self. So Max used his bacteria killer to make a hole in the shield, so he went through the hole. And saved the people on the planet.
