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The Magic Cookie

By Casey, 8

The magic chocolate cookie is as big as this whole hospital room. It can change shapes, get smaller and get out of this room. The magic cookie rolls down the hallway past the doctors and the nurses and the babies and the patients too.
The tools and the IV poles and the artists and everyone are chasing the magic cookie down the hospital hallway. Giraffes, kangaroos, elephants, lions, alligators, tigers, and bears, and a mammoth, and a squirrel, and a horse, and a doggie, and a kitty are hiding under the hospital beds waiting for the magic cookie so they can eat the cookie.
Everybody starts chasing the magic cookie into a giant elevator that's as big as Tinley Park to here and they're running around in circles in the giant elevator. Everybody gets out of the hospital and chases the magic cookie to Egypt.
The cookie starts talking and says,
"Run, run, as fast as you can,
You can't catch me,
I'm the cookie man."
Then the pyramids start dancing and everybody eats the cookie because you can smell the cookie from all around.
That's a long story. I think it took all the words out of my head.

July 2007

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The Adventures of the Four Fireflies

By Zia, 13

We are the Four Fireflies: Zia, Kitty Cat, Brat, and Tinker Bell. We fight crime and sometimes just fly around. We have special powers. Brat flips and kicks, and she's very fast. She confuses the bad guy because she's so fast.
Tinker Bell has fairy dust, and she goes around the bad guys' faces and sprinkles fairy dust in their faces, and they sneeze, and their eyes get watery and their vision gets blurry. Kitty Cat scratches and hides. She has powerful claws. I have a special hair dryer called Hairy that I use to catch the bad guys. I point Hairy at the bad guys, and a magic golden rope comes out of it to tie up the bad guys.
Our headquarters are inside a purple rose inside a garden in Hawaii. It looks like a regular purple rose on the outside, but after we fly in, the interior is huge. We have water, a bathroom, video games, costumes for changes, drinks, and a big screen TV called the Crime Watch Monitor that's in the Alarm Room.
We also have five robots that help us out: Junette the Robot, Joe the Robot, Robert the Robot, Robin the Robot, and Rosie the Robot. Our robots lift heavy things, reach things that are high on shelves, clean up, and cook. Our robots bake delicious chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies. There's also a garden inside our headquarters, and Junette, Joe, Robert, Robin, and Rosie pick cherries off the cherry trees for the cherry pies they bake for us. Jose is our advisor. Jose always holds Cookie the Chihuahua. One day we're in our headquarters playing video games and just hanging out, when Jose comes out of his office with a worried look on his face.
"Girls, I have some bad news. Chump, the Evil Big Piggy, is back on the streets causing trouble again," Jose says, while petting Cookie.
"No, that's impossible. We caught Chump last week after he'd let all the prisoners out of jail. We caught all the escaped prisoners, and we put Chump in a maximum security prison!" Kitty Cat says.
"I know, it's hard to believe that Chump is out causing trouble again, but he got out of prison with a microscopig bomb that busted down the prison wall," Jose says.
"Chump has always been a evil big piggy, and this time we'll catch him and put him back in jail for good. What did that bad pig do this time?" I ask.
"Chump has hidden small bombs in toys, and he's been handing them out to kids on Main Street in Townsville. He's disguised himself as a representative for the Smoking Pigs Toy Company. The music from his van plays the music from the commercial that goes, 'Dum, dum, dum, Smoking Pigs, buy the toy!'" Jose says.
"That's terrible," Brat says.
"Here on the Crime Watch Monitor you can see where Chump and his sidekick Villa are up to no good. Go get'em girls!" Jose says.
We fly out of our headquarters into the sky and straight over to Main Street.
"Chump, look, here come the Four Flying Flyers," Villa says. Villa secretly hates and likes Chump at the same time.
"Quick, let's hide in the weeds," Chump says.
Chump hides in the weeds, but you can always see him from his curly, pink tail. Tinker Bell swoops down and picks him up.
"It's a little too long for you to be keeping up with your evil tricks," Tinker Bell says. Chump squeals and squirms in the air as Tinker Bell takes him away.
Brat gets all the toy bombs back. She's good with kids. But there is one last toy bomb inside a pig doll.
"You'll never get the last bomb," Chump says, as Tinker Bell flies him off to jail.
But Kitty Cat smells the pig bomb and defuses it with her long claws. We put Chump in a new jail, and this time we make sure he won't get out again.
The mayor holds a press conference. "Thanks for saving the world again, Four Flying Flies!" Everyone in Townsville applauds.
We fly up into the sky and disappear like fireflies in the night. Then we fly into our headquarters and play video games and listen to music, and we watch the press conference on the daily news channel.
Jose comes out of his office with Cookie.
"Good work, girls! You did it again,"he says.
Cookie barks in approval.

July 2007

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October 13, 1917: Dinosaurs in Chicago

By Michael, 13

Inspired partly by images from 'Historic Photos of Chicago' and 'The Great Dinosaurs'


It is Saturday, October 13, 1917. It's a sunny day. It's the first inning in the fifth game of the World Series. The Chicago White Sox are against The New York Giants, at Comiskey Park. The White Sox's Red Faber, Hap Felsch, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins are leading the game.
Dinosaurs come to Chicago as soon as the second inning starts. Six Amargasauruses, four Stegosauruses, four Polacanthuses, three Pterodactyluses, 15 Triceratops, ten Brontosauruses, and one Tyrannosaurus Rex, and three Velociraptors are walking toward the 95th Street Bridge. You can see another bridge in the distance. They start fighting over who will cross the bridge first. They decide to settle it with a tug-of-war. They find a rope, and it's the Raptors and one Brontosaurus vs. a Pterodactylus and a T-Rex. The Raptor and Brontosaurus win, so they cross the bridge first.
It's the third inning at Comiskey Park. Hap Felsch is at bat. Across the city, at North Avenue and Clark Street, people are standing under the Ferris Wheel. Here come the dinosaurs. The Raptors start climbing up the Ferris Wheel as the people run away. The Pterodactyluses take people's hats and popcorn and cotton candy. One of the Brontosauruses tries to get onto the Ferris Wheel, but he accidentally knocks it over. Some people come back because the Pterodactyluses are offering rides: you can take a ride on a Pterodactylus for 5 cents. A Brontosaurus offers free rides to the kids. The Pterodactyluses buy a limo with the profits.
It's the fourth inning at Comiskey Park. Eddie Ciccote is pitching. The Giants have 2 points and The White Sox are down by 1. The dinosaurs are running to the pier at Midway Plaisance. A concert is happening. The T-Rex grabs the microphone and starts singing, "I'm so lonely." A Triceratops puts on a magician's hat and pulls an egg out of its hat. A Raptor gets sawn in half with an Icthysaurus's teeth, but he's all right because it was just a magic trick.
It's the fifth inning at Comiskey Park. Red Faber is up at bat. The Tyrannosaurus is ripping a hole in the side of Comiskey Park. Here come the dinosaurs. The baseball players run off the field. The T-Rex is fighting a Triceratops in the middle of the field. A Stegosaurus eats a hot dog stand. The Triceratops tears up a chunk of the outfield and throws dirt into the stands. The umpire comes running into the field and says, You're outa here!
Security guards come running out and hit the dinosaurs with tranquillizers. They carry the dinosaurs into the stands so the dinosaurs can watch the rest of the game without interrupting it anymore.
The White Sox beat The Giants to become the 1917 World Champs. The dinosaurs clap with the rest of the crowd. July 2007

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Summers at White Cloud, Michigan

By Chad, 13

In the summer we stay at our yellow house on Diamond Lake. In the mornings we go up on the lake with the frogs croaking. We catch and throw back sunfish. I like to lay in the rope hammock between the oak trees.

In the afternoons I go wakeboarding and tubing. I ride on the dark water on a wakeboard behind the boat: it's like snowboarding. We go out to the floating dock and go down the slide and jump off the edge of the slide and play King of the Dock.

We play Texas Hold 'Em with my cousins Daniel, Elise, Christine, and Emily. At nighttime we light a fire and roast salami on a stick and throw marshmallows at each other across the fire.

July 2007

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Abin's Premiere Concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on February 22, 2017

By Abin, 15

The whole orchestra is separated from the soloist, who looks like he is on a secluded island, completely serene. The conductor, Mr. Eric Banks, gives the signal, and the second movement in Telemann's Concerto in B begins. Since the soloist hasn't started yet, it begins with a mezzoforte. Sooner rather than later, the principal chair violist begins. The rich and flamboyant sound strikes the surprised audience.
After the first phrase is over, the orchestra continues the accompaniment. Similar to the first phrase, Mr. Banks cues the second. This phrase is more elaborate, and the vibrato is like the spice of this great cuisine. Halfway into the second movement the theme takes a new direction, and the expanding eighth notes are invigorating. The climax is intensely insightful. The resolution cohesively follows the whole.

July 2007

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