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Ellie Goes Away 

By: Isabel 

4/19/23

Fictional- Not Real 

After Ellie pushed me out of the roof, again, I decided I would get a restraining order against her. Once I did, I never saw Ellie again. Nevermind, that’s a total lie. Ellie broke the restraining order, so I had to take matters into my own hands. I knew she had an obsession with something, so I had to find out. My therapist, Daisy, said I should just transfer schools, but if anyone is transferring schools it’s going to be her. So I started following her. It was hard to diagnose her, she hopped around like a bunny, ate like a bunny, talked about bunnies, she said she loves bunnies, and wants more bunnies. Then I came to a conclusion… She's a bunny person!!!! It’s so obvious. I just needed proof that she’s a bunny person. I was writing my note down when Mr. Nielsen came up to me. 

“Hey Isabel, writing an article for FMS Press?”

“Yes and No. I’m finishing up writing my Ghost of Franklin Middle School Part 2, which I think everybody should read. And I am researching…. Um…… something.”

Mr. Nielsen was looking at my notes.

“Did you just find out Ellie is a bunny person? It’s so obvious!”

Then he just walked away. She’s a bunny person, that confirms it! I went to a bunny shelter and adopted a bunch of bunnies. I was going to release them in Monroe Middle School, so Ellie would transfer there. Then when she left, I would be Ellie free!!!!! So the next day I snuck into Monroe. I put all the bunnies into a really big crate with a blanket over it. Then a sign that said, exterminator. I put on a fake exterminator outfit with a fake mustache. Then I got inside without any problem. It was way nicer than Franklin, but who cares. I found an empty classroom, with ‘Rosalina and Lil’ Timmy were here’ on the wall. That’s… weird. Anyway, I released all the bunnies into the classroom. And it was so cute, I wanted to cry! I took a picture then locked the door so nobody would get into the classroom. Then I climbed out the window, good thing I was on the first floor. I got Ellie’s number from a friend’s, cousin’s, sister’s, brother’s, friend’s, aunt’s, grandma's, uncle's, sister’s, cousin’s, neice’s, friend. I texted her, anonymously, the picture of the bunnies and that the bunnies are at Monroe. Then I headed home, hoping Ellie would transfer. 

* * *

The next day at school Ellie wasn’t there! YAY!!!! I checked my messages and saw Ellie texted back. 

‘AAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!! BUNNIES!!!!!!! I’M TRANSFERRING!!!! SO CUTE!!!!!!’

Yes! Ellie was transferring, it’s my very, very, very, very, VERY, lucky day! I’m finally free of Ellie!!! Whoooo!

* * *

I woke up the next morning for the second day without Ellie. I skipped down the stairs to make myself breakfast, and started to grabbed a bowl when,

“Can you make me pancakes?” said a familiar voice

I dropped the bowl. I looked down to see Ellie sitting at my kitchen table. I couldn’t speak, I was scared.

“Thank you for sending me that picture of all those bunnies. I took them all home.”

“How did you know I was the one who sent you the picture?”

“I have people in very high places that can find things out” Ellie said with a frightening smile.

“But what are you doing in my house?” 

“Thanking you, and waiting for my breakfast.”

“Who let you in?!” I almost yelled.

“My friend at the FBI, Ray Ray.”

“What about the person in the very high place?” I asked.

“She’s not really a person.”

“What?!”

   “But her name is Hoppins, Mary Hoppins.” Ellie said with that weird voice.

I didn’t have anything else to say, because that was super weird. I decided to make breakfast and get a lock on my windows and doors. After breakfast, Ellie left my house, and then I had to head to school. Once I got to school I opened my locker and put some of my school supplies away. Then I closed it to see Ellie’s face behind it. 

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” I screamed

“We could be besties for the resties.” Ellie said with a smile.

“I give up!”

Then Ellie and I became besties for the resties.

The Ghost of Franklin Middle School Part Two 

By: Isabel 

05/05/23

I awoke. My vision was fuzzy. When my eyes finally focused, I was confused. I was in Franklin Middle School, but everything was new! I was still in the auditorium, and then I saw her. Emelie. She was staring at me.

“Welcome!” she said.

Her voice was smooth and silky. 

“Are you going to kill me?! Cuz’ I have a lawyer!!! Well, it’s 1856… so he wasn’t born yet…. But that doesn’t matter! So ya!!!” 

“I’m sorry you think I might hurt you. I would never do such a thing.”

“Really?!” I said with a pitchy voice “Cus’ I thought ghosts can kill people. That sounds like something a ghost would do? But, you know, ya.”

“I can assure you that I will not hurt you. I have selected you, to know the truth…”

“Um…….. what do you mean? I’m super confused…..” 

“Come…” 

Then she started to walk out the door into the hallway. I decided to follow her, what's the worst that could happen. When I came out into the hallway I was shocked, everything looked so brand new. And everybody looked and dressed very old timey. Emelie stopped near the guidance office, and turned around to face the hallway. I did the same. Then I saw Emelie walk by but as a human, I looked next to me and saw ghost Emelie. That’s odd. Then I saw a girl, long curly red hair. She was with a bunch of other girls and they were talking,  laughing, and having a good time. 

“That's Scarlett” Emelie said “She was popular, funny, smart, but rude. I was always kind to her but she had a problem with me, I’m not sure why. She always tried to make my blood boil, but it didn't, which made her super mad.”

Just then Scarlett walked up to human Emelie.

“Hey Emelie! Do you remember the lead for the school musical, well I wanted to inform you that I will be receiving it, not you. Sorry not sorry!”

“Scarlett, I’m delighted to see you today. And I hope you do great with the audition. Have a wonderful day, Scarlett!” Human Emelie replied as she walked away

Emelie then started towards a room, I’ve never seen before. It looked just like Mrs. Forbes' room, so it must have been the music room. Then out of nowhere human Emelie, Scarlett and a bunch of other girls appear. 

“I skipped time, so it would go faster.” Ghost Emelie said

Wow, I didn’t know ghosts had powers. That’s so cool! Anyway it looked like human Emelie and Scarlett were auditioning. They both did great on their audition. I don’t know how the music teacher could choose which one was the best.

“Emelie got the lead. Scarlett, you will be her understudy.”

I wasn’t expecting that. Usually there’s a cast list, but I guess in 1856 they did it on the spot. Scarlett looked like she was going to explode while Emelie just replied thank you and congratulations to Scarlett for getting the understudy. Man, this girl is too nice!

“Follow me.” Ghost Emelie said as she walked out the door.

We headed to the auditorium, I was guessing we were going to do the time skip again. We entered the auditorium and then I heard the voice I heard back in 2022. Emelie’s voice. I didn’t know what musical she was doing but it sounded amazing. Then I saw scarlett. She was behind a set piece, which was a gigantic castle. Oh no, this was going to be how Emelie died. I didn’t know what to do! Should I save her? Should I stand here? Then I started moving towards Scarlett, I don’t know how I was moving my legs, but I was. I got in front of her, and put my hands right in front of her to stop her. Scarlett then tried to knock the set piece down, but I focused all my strength and I stopped her. Scarlett was really confused but didn’t stop. She was super strong so I had to focus super hard. Then I saw a glimpse of what was behind me: a boy. He was touching the set piece. 

“I can’t let you do this!” Scarlett whispered.

“Try and stop me. Once she’s gone, I’ll be the favorite! Or maybe me and my mum can leave her stupid dad! And don’t you hate her?” The boy whispered back.

“I may act like I hate her, but I look up to her. I want to be just like her: kind, sweet, caring. Which is the exact opposite of you! But, please, this will kill her. You can’t be this cold-hearted.” 

I moved out of Scarlett's way, I was wrong. I looked back at ghost Emelie, she looked like she had tears in her eyes. We were wrong about Scarlett. I thought she was going to push the set piece but it was actually her half brother. 

“I made sure it would only land on some of her, so she would only be injured, not killed. I can assure you, I am cold-hearted. ” The boy whispered and pushed the set.

“Noooooo!!” Scarlett screamed and got in front of the set piece to try and stop it from falling. But it fell. And it took Emelie with it. But Scarlett was saved, the piece that fell on her was an opened window. Scarlett started crying. The boy who pushed the set piece started fake crying.

“It was Scarlett, I saw it with my own eyes! She pushed the set. She always hated Emelie. Oh my poor half-sister.” The boy whimpered.

I walked up to him and slapped him. And it worked! My hand became solid and slapped him hard on the cheek. 

“Thank you, but it won’t fix it.” Ghost Emelie said.

“I- I- I- didn’t! I promise! I would never hurt her, I would never… never!” Scarlett sobbed.

“We must go.” ghost Emelie said to me.

I nodded. I did know what to say. I didn’t know what to do. I felt so bad. If only I could have helped. Ghost Emelie stopped time completely. 

“I will send you back” She said solemnly.

“Wait! What happened to Scarlett?”

“Sadly, she met the same fate. That boy did the same to her during the next play. He kept on doing it till he graduated middle school.”

“Where is she?”

“I’m not sure, I wish I could thank her for trying. But I never found her.”

“I’m sorry, I wish I could do something.”

“I hope so too… But now it’s time for you to go.”  

“Good bye… also, don’t give up on finding Scarlett. She just might feel bad.”

“Thank you, and goodbye.” Emelie said with a half smile.

* * *

I woke up. I was standing in the auditorium. I looked at my watch, not a minute had gone by. Time travel was cool. I was about to walk out the auditorium door, when I turned around.

“Good bye, and good luck.”

* * *

It was the night of my performance. I played a funny black and white cat named Bombarlina! I got on the stage and did my stage directions. Then I heard some noise, in character I looked up and saw something coming towards me, the lights. Before I knew it, it was black.

* * *

I opened my eyes. I looked down, I saw myself but under the lights hanging from above. Oh my gosh, I’m dead! I can’t believe it. Everybody was freaking out. I looked around, and then I saw Emelie and Scarlett coming towards me. 

“You were his next victim.” Emelie said.

I looked up. There I saw the same boy who killed Emelie and Scarlett. I really am dead! I can’t believe this. I had my whole life ahead of me! And I died in a cat costume. Not cool, totally not cool! 

“What do I do now?” I asked.

“You haunt…” said a voice.

I turned around to see that boy.
“I’m so happy I slapped you when I was solid matter!”

“That was you, I thought I was going crazy!”

“You deserved it!” I yelled.

“You really had it coming.” Scarlett said.

“I'm going to get you!” Yelled the boy.

He then charged at me and tackled me to the ground. I tried to fight back but I couldn’t. Then I felt a really hard punch to the face, the punch felt like water. I was soaking wet!

- - -

I gasped! I was in bed, and my face was wet. I looked up to see my brother who had thrown a glass of water on my face.

“You’re going to be late for school!” He said then stuck his tongue out at me

Wait, school. It was a dream! Thank the Lord! It was pretty life like! I got up, got dressed, brushed my teeth, and headed downstairs. 

“Honey, you’re up! I didn’t expect you to be going to school after what happened!” My mom said once she saw me.

“Um, ok?”

I rode my bike to school and once I got there I knew it would be a long day. But for the whole day everybody was saying how they are happy that I'm okay and that I should get better soon. Which was super weird. Once 6th period came around, I was nervous. It was always a weird class. I entered and again people were saying that they were happy I was okay. I sat down and started scribbling in my notebook.

“Okay class! Today we have two new students, this is Emelie and Scarlett.” Miss Dabelow said.

When I heard those names, I froze. I looked up to see Emelie and Scarlett in the flesh. They saw me and smiled.

“Hey Isabel!” Scarlett said.

“Nice to see you again!” Emelie said.

“You three know each other?” Miss Dabelow asked.

“Yes, we go way back.” Emelie said with a warm smile.

“As far as 1856.” Scarlett added.

I couldn’t speak, I had lost my voice. I was losing it! I just sat there with a surprised look on my face. And they just kept on smiling, and smiling, and smiling…

Maybe it’s The End!!!

Read the first one! Written right below

The Ghost of Franklin Middle School

By: Isabel 

03/23/23

FICTIONAL - NOT REAL

It was a normal fall day. It was October, Halloween was creeping up on us. After lunch I head to my next class, performance seminar. Ms. Dabelow always was a little creepy. She had an evil laugh that filled the hallway with fear, she always was over dramatic like a drama teacher, she loved causing drama, she would always have an army of people wearing masks, and something about a spider yelling “I’m not a bully”. I just had to get the 45 minutes of her class over with. As I walked in Ms. Dabelow was there waiting staring at me. I froze like a deer in front of head lights. 

“Come in, come in, it’s going to be a fun day today.” Ms. Dabelow said to me. As I walk in slowly, her room looks very different. It’s darker and more scary. She has all this fish on the wall and Shakespeare stuff too. She even has these two aliens on sticks in a jar, the aliens have blue hair and are dressed in red, the aliens shirts even have the words thing one and thing two on it. Scary! I walk to my seat, which is right in front of her desk. Everybody else files in looking scared. When the bell rings, Ms. Dabelow faces us with a creepy grin. 

“Today I will tell you a story. A story about a GHOST!” Ms. Dabelow bellowed. We all jumped when she said ghost. 

“It’s the ghost of Franklin middle school. Long long loooong ago, in 1856, Franklin Middle School was at its finest. But there was an inccident! There was a girl, an 8th grade girl, her name was Emilie Pearson. She had long blonde hair, the greenest eyes, the kindest girl you have ever met. Then BAM!!!!!!!!!! She was killed while singing on the new stage, a set piece plummeted and she was pushed into the stage. Everybody was sad and the school closed the theater for a long time. BUT!!!!! They say that if you enter the theater alone you’ll see her ghost, some have but they didn’t live to tell the story ....”

The room was silent. 

The bell rang and we all screamed with terror. I grabbed my stuff and ran out the door. I was so scared I wanted to go learn Latin in language arts, which is saying something.

……….

A couple weeks passed and we rehearsed in the theater for a play we are putting on for the school. I was always the last person to enter the theater, I didn't want to risk running into Emilie. Today in Ms. Dabelow’s class, I had to go fill up my water bottle because I ran out. I walked to the water fountain and while I waited for my water bottle to fill up I heard a noise. Thump thump thump thump, then an amazing singing voice. I took my water bottle and screwed the cap on. The noise was coming from the theater. Emilie I thought. But then my curiosity got the best of me. I walked to the theater door and opened it, I turned on the lights and saw Emilie. She was pale and transparent, with her long hair flowing like a waterfall. She holds out her hand, and she smiles gently. Her face looked kind. I reached for her hand and instead of my hand going through hers, her hand turned solid as I grabbed it. Everything went black. 

The end, for now…

Ellie Pushed Me Off The Roof

By: Isabel 

01/11/23

FICTIONAL - NOT REAL

Last year Ellie fell off the roof and got thrown out the window, but it’s now 2023, new year new Ellie, I hope. Year 2023, I was going to investigate why Ellie fell off the roof and why Mr. Nielsen and Mrs. Fisher threw Ellie out the window. I was going to bring Mr. Nielsen and Mrs Fisher to justice and put Ellie in an insane asylum. So I put on a trench coat, sunglasses, grabbed a magnifying glass, and a notebook, then I went to both of the crime scenes. 

First I went to the secret staircase, the one that led to the roof. I walked up the stairs looking for clues. I used the magnifying glass to look at the stairs, then I went up to the roof. I looked around and I took notes. Then I made my way to Mr. Neilsen’s room. He was in there, teaching. I stood there, in the corner of the hallway, waiting and waiting, until the 7th grader lunch bell rang. 

Then I snuck in after they all left. Mr. Nielsen was still in there so I got on the ground and crawled around. The green dragon that Ellie drew on the wall was covered up by grammar posters, so a little throw up entered my mouth, but I swallowed it back down. I took notes then left undetected. I finally understood my theory and I knew I had to confront Ellie. I went to her locker and slipped a note in there to meet me on the roof after the 8th graders' lunch period, but I didn’t sign it because our lockers are next to each other.

……

I was waiting on the roof for about 5 minutes when Ellie came up. 

“Ellie, I've been waiting for you!” I said.

“Waiting for what?” Ellie replied.

“YOU!” Wasn’t that obvious?

“But what are you waiting for?” Ellie asked again.

“Oh my gosh, nevermind! Anyway, I found out your secret.”

“You did?” Ellie asked, confused.

“Yes. Also I have an itch on my back, can you scratch it?” 

“Sure, follow me.” Ellie said.

Ellie brought me to the edge of the roof. I started getting scared.

“Are you going to kill me?” I asked.

“No silly. Now face me and have your back to the ground.” Ellie said, trying to hide a giggle.

“Wait what, the ground, but that makes no-” I tried to say.

Then Ellie pushed me off the roof, and I realized that Ellie was trying to kill me! I hit the ground hard right on a tree branch. 

“OW!” I yelled. It hurt my back a lot.

Ellie’s face appeared over mine, she was still hiding that insane giggle. “Did that help?” She asked smiling

“NO!!! YOU TRIED TO KILL ME!!!” I screamed at her, not understanding this crazy girl. 

Ellie then helped me stand back up. 

“But that’s how I always scratch my back. I thought it would work for you.” Ellie said in a very sad pouty way. It reminded me of a sad pouty bunny.

“Well it didn’t! Is this because I know your secret?” I asked, outraged.

“Well, no, but how did you find out?”

“I did investigations all around the school roof, in Mr. Nielsen's room, and I came to a conclusion.” I explained

“Oh, I was thinking of a totally different secret.” Ellie said nervously, fidgeting with her hands. 

“A different secret! I’m not even going to try…”

“Wait what's the secret?” Ellie sounded genuinely confused.

I then whispered it into her ear. She giggled and skipped back into the school, leaving me outside with a horribly aching back and with a questioning life. I really needed therapy after this. 

The first two articles:

Ellie fell of the roof again

Ellie fell of the roof

A Cabin Tale

By:Sadie Lewis

03/05/23  

It was late at night when we arrived. Me and my sister, a high schooler and an 8th grader, were in the lead car when we arrived first. It was really dark and the people came out of nowhere. I screamed then everyone else started screaming. Turns out we got the newer cabins but the cons were that it was at the top of the hill, and the girl’s cabin was next to a creepy playhouse that night when we had everyone in our cabin plus our stuff. I went outside the next morning with the same people I was in the car with, and another 6th grader walked in. We saw a bunch of old chairs and a small wooden table. More than half the chairs were against the wall and in a perfect line…. Then there were three chairs who weren’t in a perfect line and near the table facing different directions. Then I thought about scaring the group, so I told a kind-of scary not-really-ghost story about the old playhouse used to be a cabin that wasn’t on the ground because it would flood a lot back then. But let me begin this ghost tale….

Once upon a time there was a group of girls that lived in the cabin. When it was time to leave the counselor missed counting because she counted three other girls from another cabin. When the three girls overslept they woke up realizing that their group had left them. They panicked and panicked. 2 hours later the counselor realized that she had missed count and she drove back as fast as she could. She entered the cabin no one was there except an eerie sound of cries of pain and suffering. And it was colder in the room than outside the beds were gone so were everything else that remained was 13 chairs. The counselor walked around and there was a door latch. She opened it and there was nothing. Everything was gone. She walked back to her car and she thought only one thing: “Three girls were there, but none came out…. alive”. 

After telling this ghost tale, I freaked everyone out. I also left out the part on how they died, but that will be saved for later. The first night I was there I heard the eerie noise I described. The next night I saw a light magically appear in the playhouse and didn’t turn off until daytime. We started as a small group and I looked out the other window to see the creepy playhouse the light was on and the eerie ghost noises started to fade away. The topic was banned by the leaders until the next morning. It was very unpleasant the rest of the night. This time it was almost like they had a party where the chairs were rearranged, and there was blood on the floor and it was dried but it didn’t turn brown. The moment we walked in the temperature dropped… it was time to leave, so we said ‘Goodbye’ and we left for the cars. Now we think our cabins were haunted. Or the girls died somehow but we never figured it out… Some say that if you're in the playhouse that if you listen real close you can hear them…. Ha ha ha.  

Well I hope you enjoyed it. Bye!!!!  

The Land of Bunnies- A Story Written for FPLA

By: Ellie

03/01/23

This is just the beginning of the article. The link to the full article is below the article.

These are photos of Mary and Radar, Lady Bridgerton, and Zoomie and Binkie.

The Penny King

Sena Lewis

01/31/23

Once upon a time in a village far away, there lived a boy and his parents in their big red barn. His parents were normal; it was the boy who wasn’t. The boy didn’t speak a single word his entire life. He hadn’t even spoken his first words. 

His parents started worrying about him. So they decided one day to help his silence. One penny each day if he talked to someone. Back then a penny was worth 100 dollars. 

The boy nodded to his parents without speaking to them. Each day the boy went into the barn. And he spoke to a cow, a chicken, or a horse depending on the day. Then he would be silent afterwards.

His parents didn’t know that he was talking to animals and not people. They paid him a lot of coins until… 

A month later the parents went to the bakers to buy some bread. The father was excited to brag about how their child could talk so much in just a short amount of time.

The baker didn’t believe a single word. The parents decided to ask around to see if anyone else could tell their son’s achievements. Every villager said the same thing. The parents realize their son tricked them. 

But at that time the little boy had gotten a lot of coins. And his parents were broke. They couldn’t stop him. From that day on he was known as the Penny King.

The Penguin Story 

By: Sadie

11/30/22

Welcome to Penguin Paradise Palace for the Plump Pampered Penguins! Where the penguins roam! So let me put this straight: once upon a time, there were a lot of penguins. You know, a normal amount until three that Me and Scientist Ari think about what happened to our penguins in our experiment in Mrs. Hughes class. So we were doing the mark and recapture method and our graph went from medium to very high then it shrinked back down to medium size. We studied our penguins for “10 years”. Many very realistic things could have happened but the last scenario is the most unrealistic.  

Scenario 1:

So the penguins lived happily but unfortunately the penguin ate all the fish at once so the fish couldn’t repopulate, and the penguins numbers dropped into the twenties to be specific 24 penguins apparently survived. So here's the weird part… A new fish came and they started to get better and their population spiked to 590 penguins then an oil spill happened and they mostly died off. It went into the 200s as a normal population. You would think it was a happily ever after but it wasn’t. The next problem was plastic. They started eating the plastic and the penguins numbers dropped into the 100s. 

Scenario 2- 

Okay theory 2, The poor penguins had a tough year but eventually it became happy but also weird. So therefore let's begin, there was an oil spill and the penguins died off to 24 penguins. The mother penguin gave birth to 566 penguins so then the penguin population spiked to 590 penguins. They kind of lived happily ever after…  Until plastic came into the picture and the penguins ate the plastic and most of them died. THEN they lived happily ever after.

(The Best scenario and most unrealistic) Scenario 3-  

So it begins with the poor penguins getting attacked by a vicious yet very derpy and awkward looking wolf named Duck! People call him Porkchop because he only eats Pokchop, sometimes Penguin. He floated with lots of meat to Antarctica without even thinking! You know he was sleeping on his iceberg then an ant came along and it touched his iceberg and he drifted away. He slept and slept in his igloo. He made himself eat some of the meat when he got hungry and went back to bed. He also had an unlimited supply of fresh water. When he had enough sleep he walked out and he sniffed the air to smell… Penguins! So he ate/stored most of the penguins, then he went back to sleep and another ant came and it touched his iceberg and he drifted back to his home land in Alaska where he ate in the fields. So the penguins population now is 24 penguins and then the cloning people from Star Wars came and they had enough stuff to clone 566 more penguins. They left after that and all the penguins died of another derpy looking wolf named Zenguin. After that he stayed there to keep the population healthy because he understood the food chain, unlike a wolf we know named Duck!

(P.S Zenguin and Duck are brothers). 

So I hope you enjoyed it.

Winter Story

By: Adam

11/13/22

“George! Get up! Why don't you go outside and check the weather?" called Mama Groundhog to her son. George snuggled down further under his warm green blanket. He did not want to wake up.

Then George's nose began to twitch. He stuck it out from under his warm green blanket. He smelled the savory scent of his favorite breakfast. Mama was making grubs in sweet grass just for him. George hopped out of bed and toddled into the kitchen.

George gobbled his breakfast of grubs in sweet grass. Mama Groundhog kissed George and said, "Go outside and play with your friends, George. Let Grandfather know if you see your shadow while you play."

"M-my sh-shadow?" George said, a little scared. 

"Don't worry," Mama Groundhog said with a chuckle, "it just means the sun is shining on you." George crept slowly out of his house. He was still a little scared he might see his shadow.

He thought seeing a shadow might be something like having a bad dream. George blinked in the bright sunshine. How could he possibly see his shadow? He couldn't see anything at all!

"George! George! George!" chattered Sammie Squirrel. "We are all waiting for you to see your shadow!"

"You are?" George asked. He was afraid that he wouldn't know how to see his shadow. 

"Hi, George!" said Solomon Skunk.

Ellie Fell Off A Roof,  Again, Kind Of

By: Isabel 

09/21/22

FICTION, again, NOT REAL

Ever since Ellie fell off the roof, I’ve tried to avoid her. Our lockers are right next to each other, so I just carry everything in my backpack around, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then she licked her elbow, which made me suspicious of her. She always talked about a guy named Corban. I thought they were third cousins twice removed, because 32 seemed like Ellie's favorite number, because it’s everybody's favorite number. She was also wearing her hair in a different style that wasn’t a braid, which was strange. 

So I decided to follow her. Whenever she walked down the hallway, she hopped like a bunny. Man, that girl is messed up. Ellie went down the band, orchestra, and chorus hallway to the stairwell that leads to the science hallway. I sometimes heard her refer to that as the “back way.” She hopped up the stairs. I followed behind her with a distance between us. She hopped all the way to Mr. Nielsen's room. Ellie hopped in Mr. Nielsen’s room and grabbed some green markers and started drawing on the wall. I was shocked! Ellie always loved Mr. Nielsen! She was vandalizing the school!!! Soon Ellie backed away from the drawing and it looked like some weird animal! 

Ellie then said, “Aw, what a cute whittle dragon you are! I’m gonna name you Sunny Bunny!”

And so it was: the dragon was named Sunny Bunny. Not weird at all! I sneaked inside and hid behind a desk, even though it didn’t do much to hide me. Just then Mr. Nielsen and Mrs. Fisher walked in the room; they ran to Ellie and picked her up. They brought her to the window, which was open! Then they threw her out of the window! I gasped! They just murdered Ellie! Mr. Nielsen and Mrs. Fisher walked out of the room like they did nothing. I then ran to the window and looked out. I saw Ellie twitching. I ran out of Mr. Nielsen’s room and ran down the stairs and went outside. I saw Ellie giggling on the ground. I was so confused. I walked over to her.

“Ellie, are you okay?” I anxiously asked.

“Yeppers! Why wouldn’t I be?”

“Didn’t that hurt? You fell two stories.”

“Not really.”

“Why were you giggling?”

“Because it was fun!!!”

“Why did Mr. Nielsen and Mrs. Fisher throw you out the window?”

“Because I wanted them too!” Ellie said with joy, still giggling.

“But why?”

“Because!”

“Nevermind, have fun getting thrown out the window.”

I walked away and walked back into the school. What is up with that girl and the roof?

See the first article, "Ellie Fell Off The Roof" under Bulldog Tales on last year's paper.

Big Legged Chicken and Long Legged Goose First Day of School

Dedicated to the stories my father told me and my sisters at night

By: Sena

10/05/22

'Twas the night before the first day of school, making it the last day of summer. Big Legged Chicken was getting everything ready for tomorrow. She had all her clothes and shoes laid out, and her lunch was packed, not to mention she already knew which class she was going to. 

Meanwhile Big Legged Chicken’s best friend wasn’t ready for school. Long Legged Goose decided to hang out at the pond to sleep and to swim. He wasn’t prepared for the first day of school. 

Morning!

Big Legged Chicken had her alarm wake her up at 6 a.m.. That way Big Legged Chicken could do her yoga, reading, breakfast and, of course, get ready for school. Things were going great for Big Legged Chicken.

Long Legged Goose was snoring in his bed. The clock was already at 8 a.m., and school started at 9:15. Long Legged Goose had nothing prepared for school.

Big Legged Chicken finished putting on her clothes then marched outside with her backpack and lunch. And straight to school. She waved to the other students as they passed her in the halls. She found her classroom and sat down at her desk.

Long Legged Goose was still sleeping and the clock was now at 9:00. Ten minutes later, Long Legged Goose woke up with a yawn. Then he glanced at the clock. Five minutes till school starts. He jumped out of bed and put on random clothes: a polka dot t-shirt and striped pants. He ran into the kitchen and threw food into his lunch box; a cupcake, plant food and broccoli. He grabbed his lunch and backpack and ran to school. The clock started ticking. He was running in the halls, but everyone was in their classrooms so no one told him to slow down. He opened the classroom door and fell face first into the floor.

“Is the Long Legged Goose here?” the teacher asked.

“Present,” he said, getting off the floor. Everyone laughed and he joined in.