Fiction
2021-2022 Submissions
2021-2022 Submissions
by Ella N.
Oh, I am so not ready for this evening rush. I have two minutes to prepare. I have to take about 500 people down an elevator that only holds 12 people at a time, Tony thought. It is the day before the weekend so after all the elevator rides are done for the day, the elevator cables have to be turned off, since there will be no one using them until someone gets here to turn them back on. Two minutes had passed. Still not ready, but had no more time to get ready. It was about 4:15, and the first 7 floors were ready to leave. The other 3 floors get out 30 minutes later than everyone else, because they have to prepare for Monday.
It was 4:41, and the first 7 floors were done. A lot of conversations had been had. Tony struggled to understand the words everyone else spoke. He could understand one guy named George who spoke Italian. George introduced himself to a woman who spoke German. Tommy’s favorite floor was floor 9. This was because it had mostly Italian speaking people on it. Tony had no friends but he liked the comfort of others speaking in his home language.
When Tony went up to floor 8 he heard screaming.
Tony asked, “A cosa servono tutte le urla?”
The woman next to him replied, “everyone is screaming because there is a fire.” Tony rushed everyone into the elevator. On a regular day basis the elevator could hold 12 people including Tony, but right then and there it was holding 46. No one else could fit.
Tony screamed, “tornerò!”
Another woman shouted back saying “you better come back.” He dropped everyone off at ground level. He thought about just leaving everyone up there so he could go outside to be safe and try to find his sister, but he knew that the people upstairs had family too. In an instant he rushed back up the elevator. Within 2 minutes he was back on the 8th floor. He got almost everyone. He had to make a third trip. Everyone on the 8th floor, besides 2 people who jumped out of the window at the start of the fire. He felt good that he could help save others. But he knew he had to try and help others on the ninth floor. Going down in the elevator he overheard some people saying the elevator started on the eighth floor. In his mind he was terrified to go, but he knew he had to. Once he got to the eighth floor as people were jamming into the elevator. On the radio, he heard the boss say how if he saved him from the10th floor then he promised Tony would get 3 extra dollars in the next paycheck. Tony knew that was a lot of money, but over money he wanted friends. And if all those people were dead or happened to make it out alive they would not forgive him.
So he decided to say “no.” Everyone on the 9th floor was so relieved by his answer.
10 minutes after he said no to the boss he made it down the elevator and evacuated everyone off the 8th and 9th floor. He decided to stop using the elevator because you could see the metal getting heated and damaging the elevator. He decided to go try and find his sister then got off the bus right outside. She had homework help today so school ended at 5:20 and she got dropped off at 5:30. Now it is 5:32. After 5 minutes of trying to find his sister, they found each other. She was so relieved to see him alive and safe. They walked home and lived happily ever after.
by Marissa C.
Every single kid in Maine is taken at birth by the state and returned to their parents at the age of 10. When they return to their parents their memories have been erased. They only knew family. This happened to the Mills family. Except when they got their daughter Molly back she knew everything that had happened. Her memory had not been erased. When she told her parents about this they did not believe her and they put her in a psychiatric facility. They were convinced that she was insane. There was no way that the state did not erase her memory. Did they forget? Every time she tried to tell her story she was put into the psychiatric facility. Eventually the Mills family decided that they wanted to take Molly to the states department to have her talk to the head of the state. The second that she tried to tell her story they shushed her. After getting the Mills family's permission the head of the state took her for a couple of days to check her out. When the Mills went back to the head of the state 2 days later they spoke to the chief. They told them that Molly had died. They said it was suicide but the Mills did not belive that. The head of the state had killed Molly because she knew the truth about what happened to the children when they were taken for 10 years.
by Aiden R.
One night I was sleeping in my bedroom all alone. It was the night after Halloween. Then I woke up because the dream I had been having ended. I was not able to get back to sleep so I took some melatonin and fell asleep. Suddenly, I woke up at 3:00 a.m. because I heard a deep screech. I said, “What in the bloody hay was that?” I turned around and my snowmiser was hip glitching! I took the battery out and my heart was pounding so hard. I was literally scared to death.
My mom was not even there in the house, my dad was gone too because they were at a club. Then I heard a glitching slow motion audio that came from the speaker of my snowmiser and it said 'turn to snow in my clutch.” I took it apart, ripped his fur and burned it with a lighter.
Then I grabbed my crosses and I said,’’ COME OUT YOU DEMON!!!!!!!!!! COMMMME OOOOOOUT!!!!!!!!!!!” Then I heard a bang on my door ‘’ BANG BANG BANG’’ ‘’ let me in’’ and then I woke up like ‘ “AAAAAAAaaAAAAA!!!!!!!!’’ Then I looked around, looked outside and it was sunny, blooming, and the birds were chirping. Then I looked at my clock and it said 9.50. so I tip toe tippy toed my feet walking into my parents room. So I check and my parents are at home asleep in their bed. Then I was watching my iPad sitting in my room and my Mr. Snowflake [Snowmiser] started going nuts making some weird sound and fell on the floor. Then it started smoking and all of my smoke alarms went off and my Snowmiser caught on fire.
The fire became bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. My Snowmiser exploded! Then the house caught on fire and it became a forest fire. The explosion started getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worser and worser and worser and worser and worser and worser. Then it became a nuclear explosion and it caused the worst case scenario. The explosion started expanding more and more. Then the explosion started to cover the whole state of the US. So I got on my homemade plane and started flying. I went higher than 10,000 feet. I looked outside the plane window and saw fire and ashes and Illinois started melting. I said, ‘’Oh my god! My state!!!’’
I landed in California and I felt safe. It was midnight, so I went to a luxury apartment and it had 103 floors!!!!!! I went on an elevator that talks. I pressed the arrow button and it said, “opening door” with a robotic voice. I pushed the button that says 102, and 608. I went in that room and I went to bed and started to watch TV.
P. A R. T. 2
The next day I was in my hotel room sleeping. At 9:13 I woke up, got ready and all that kind of stuff. Now I started to watch my tv and later on I was watching my iPad. Then I heard a thump on my balcony. I looked outside and it was kind of smoky outside up in the sky. Then I looked down and I saw my old Snowmiser piece’s falling everywhere on my balcony. I went back to my room and started watching my TV again until it was nighttime.
The sun went down and I saw this orange little glowing ball far away and it was the explosion that happened yesterday. Then this floating thing went on the balcony and it was my snowmiser’s skin. The shock wave, from the explosion, made the snowmiser’s skin float. The fire department came to Illinois and sprayed all of the fire and smoke with a ginormous hose. They did that so they could save everyone’s lives. All the smoke was gone and the people from Illinois live in their homes again. I went back to Illinois and to my house and lived there again. My Snowmiser were all okay except my room was full of ashes.
The End
by Jovan G.
There was a field. And in that field, there was a small, white clover flower. The flower lived a peaceful life, living solely on the sun’s energy and the nutrients from the soil. One day, a honeybee came to the flower. She acquired the pollen from the flower, and returned it to her hive. However, some of that pollen fell onto a group of clover flowers, not too far away. The pollen fertilized a few of those flowers, making the seeds.
One year later, one of those seeds became a white clover flower, near the river. Like it’s father before it, it lives a peaceful life, but this time, it also lives on the water in the river.
by Marissa C.
One day, April was walking home from school when she found a backpack. It looked cool and it was pretty so she picked it up and took it home. When she got home she showed her mom and dad. They told her that she can keep it, but it needs to be thoroughly cleaned before anything goes in it. So April washed it, put her books in it and took it to school the next day.
When she got to first period she realized she forgot to do her homework because she had a basketball game last night, but when she went to get it out, it was completed. She was confused but she didn't think too much of it even though she didn't remember doing it.
The next day on the way to school her phone died. She put it in her bag so she would not lose it, but when she took it out a couple of hours later it was fully charged. At this point she was very confused. She thought that was weird and not a coincidence. She suspected the backpack was magic.
So the next day she tested it. She purposefully left her phone at her house. When reached into her backpack at school, it was there. April was now 100% confident that the backpack was magic. She used it to get work done without putting any effort into it. But then April hears a sound coming from her backpack and wakes up to her alarm going off.