~Will Richardson, Class of 2028

It all happened on a foggy night in Slothville.  3 kids went into a forest. They were walking until they heard something they had never heard before.  Then out in the distance there was a boy sitting. They could hear the boy saying I’m coming. 

This got the kids scared but just then there were hands on the trees.  They ran as fast as they could.  Two of them looked back. Where was the third?!!!  He was getting pulled away by the hands. 

It was raining hard, lightning flashed and a guy came running and screaming Michael Myers! 

They all made a run for it.  Chainsaws were going.  Clowns were chasing them.

They all made it to this underground bunker.  They were safe. 

The next morning they woke up got out of the bunker – nothing was there. This was weird because last night when they got under the bunker they didn’t move so why would the forest be different?

They walked until they saw it.  It was the town with a goat man in it.  They looked at it – then one of the kids disappeared.  The goat saw them.  He ran up the hill.  They ran back to the bunker, but it was not there!!! 

They saw a palace.  They stopped.  Clowns were coming.  Both of them got captured. 

To this day, we don’t know who captured them. That’s the story.  Many people believe they live in the forest as ghosts, haunting people   

Smart

~Myles Stephens, Class of 2029

“Five days until the statewide math competition,” announced the overexcited principal over the intercom, his voice echoing through the school corridors.

“Honestly, it’s just a competition. Who cares if we win or lose? It’s all stupid,” muttered Alex, the laziest and dumbest kid in the grade.

After school, Alex trudged home, hungry as ever.  “Mom, I’m home,” he called out as he headed straight for his room to play video games, like he did almost every day for the past ten years.

“Hey Alex! Come downstairs. You need to see this!” his mom’s voice echoed from the kitchen, filled with a lot of unusual excitement. 

Alex walked the stairs to find his mom beaming with a proud look on her face. 

“I just made genius pills! They make you super smart, I am keeping these up in the cabinet and don’t you even think about eating one,” mom excitedly said. 

She put the brightly colored pills in a cabinet then darted out of the house.

Alex glanced at the shelf, and he realized how hungry he was. He loved Skittles, and he was pretty sure the jar contained his favorite candy.  But having not listened at all to his mom’s speech he thought the jars were just candy. 

Without a second thought, Alex unscrewed the jar and started munching on every single one, convinced they were candy. Not knowing that he was eating the very “genius pills” his mom had tried to warn him about.                               

A minute later his twin sister, Veronica, burst in. 

“I don’t know why I am asking, but no one else is here. Can you help me with my math homework Alex?” said Veronica. 

In seconds he had finished all her homework for the rest of the week. 

“What happened to my lazy, idiot brother?” asked Veronica as he miraculously sped through the pages of homework. 

Just as he got ready to answer his sister, the doorbell rang. 

“I got it,” said Veronica as she bolted down to see mom. Mom was furious at Alex. 

“You ate my genius pills!” mom yelled with a menacing tone that was unusual for her normally calm demeanor. “I told you not to eat them,” she scolded. 

Alex went to bed that night depressed. He flopped down on his bed and cried himself to sleep.

Things were still tense between the family the next morning. But right now they had bigger fish to fry, and from bigger fish I mean the statewide math competition that mom had just made him do. 

It took mom a whole hour to convince Alex but grudgingly he agreed after being bribed with a new video game.

….

3, 2, 1, Go!  The math competition had begun.

Alex flew through the first few questions without any doubt in his now ginormous mind. But as it went on Alex started to feel guilty that some of his opponents had been training their whole lives while it was just luck that he ate the pills and was able to do this with such grace and ease. 

Only ten more minutes until the end… then five… and then one…

Beeeeeeeep!   It was over. 

And the winner was Alex!   Now Alex felt really guilty so he did what even his  gigantic brain thought was a bad idea. He confessed to eating the pills.

A year later, the smart pills wore off and life was almost back to normal. However, Alex became less lazy. He started to try in his classes helping him get into MIT for college. He owed it all to his mother and her pills. 

PS. — Children, do not try this at home and eat unknown pills.