North Pole

When a six year old boy named Matt was walking home from school he heard a screechy voice. He followed the voice and found a dwarf. It was screaming. Matt said," H-hello, wher'd you come from ?" The dwarf answered," Me come from Santa. Santa tell me to bring any boy to North Pole. You come with me.", The dwarf took Matt's hand, patted the ground twice with it and jumped into the appearing tunnel. The dwarf was into the tunnel so Matt said," Wait up, I'm coming.", and jumped into the tunnel as well.After 15 minutes of riding in the tunnel they reached the end. When Matt came out he saw beautiful decorated houses, jolly people singing while they cross the street, and much more. Those are just some of the common things. Something that glued Matt's eyes to it was the golden palace. The dwarf pulled Matt to the palace."Are you sure I'm aloud comin' into this palace?",asked Matt. "Santa call you, you go. You no go to Santa, you get punished.", answered the dwarf. As they entered the palace a huge figure appeared in front of them. It was Santa! He laughed. "Ho, Ho, Ho, and merry, merry Christmas!", he said. "What would you like for Christmas, kiddo?" "Nothing really", replied Matt. "You have to ask for something." "No" "Why not" "I don't know but-hey, can I have a photo of you and me to prove to my mom that I really saw you?", asked Matt. Santa said," Sure, if that's all you want." " It is.", said Matt. He said goodbye to everyone and was about to climb up the tunnel when the dwarf appeared in front of Matt and told him to pat the ground twice and go up in the appearing elevator. Matt did so and reached the top. When he looked at the spot the tunnel was supposed to be it vanished. Matt was not surprised because he knew christmas magic was real. It's not christmas where Matt lived but it's always christmas at the super jolly, beautiful, satisfying North Pole!

The Lazy King

A long, long time ago, there lived a king. He was very lazy. He woke up at noon, and fell asleep getting entertained by the court dancers. His poor old father wished he could see his son active. His father thought: I better call the minister. So he did. The minister came to the king's father's room and had a serious discussion. The minister had an idea. He went to the king and said ''Oh king, do you think I am smarter than you?'' '' Of course not, you fool'', answered the king rudely. ''Prove it'', said the minister. ''Okay, try and make me jump into the lake'', said the king. ''Your majesty, said the minister slyly, I don't think I can. But it is for sure that if you do, you shall drown'', he said. The king angerily stepped up from the throne, went into his closet, put on his bathing suit, went outside, and jumped into the lake! He safely swam back out and blurted out,''Did you see how easely I swam out?'' The minister calmly said," Not as easely I made you jump into the lake''. The king stomped to his room but suddenly,''Wait Master, now that I know how well you swim, why not take a swim everyday?'', asked the minister. ''Good idea'', replied the king. Well, now that the king wasn't sleeping most of the day, he was a bit active. They lived happily until- the king's father said to the minister ''Can you make my son more active?" ''I 'll try said the minister, and quietly walked outta the room. The next day, the minister went to the king and said "Oh king, do you think my servant is faster than you?'' He replied "No way!'' ''Prove it", said the minister."Okay'' he replied.''We will run a race tomorrow and see who is faster." They went to the royal race place, and the minister shouted go! While the minister was watching the king fell down half way. He said ''You win, happy?'' "No, but I will be happy if you jog everyday early in the morning, will you?'' He said yes and from then he was an athletic king. The king's father was just the least bit impressed. He said "If you can make my son win the "Athletic Test" tomorrow I shall reward you with a million gold coins" said the king's father. The minister went right away to the king and said "Do you thi- hey no more of that'' interrupted the king."I 'll do anything for you to not say anything else like the other things", he said. The minister said okay and said "Win the gold trophy of Athletics and fall at your fathers feet and beg for forgiveness". "Why?"  "Because I 'm telling you to". "No". "You better or you'll have to- okay okay okay. I will said the king. The king did as he was told and his father was delighted. His son was the gold medalist of the thing he liked the worst! Hooray! Hoorah! ..............And they live happily ever after !!!!!!!!!

                                                      By: Anupallavi Sinha

My name is Linda Thompson. I am fifty-three years old and I have a twin brother named William. I’m older than him by three minutes and forty-five seconds. We both lived a very hard life. But then it got easier and easier by our effort to earn money and live a great life. My life started in 1873, in Manitoba. My dad died in a train crash, on the same train that I was going back from the hospital as a newborn baby. My Auntie

 was on the train, too, and all she thought was about me. So she saved me- but she couldn’t save my dad. My mom was still at the hospital, because she was still expecting my twin. My Auntie and me didn’t know he was born as soon as we reached our house, so we had to go back to pick him up. But then the worst thing that could ever happen happened. My mom died. But at least my brother was still alive. We went back home and our Auntie and us attended the funerals of our parents. After William, and I turned five, our Auntie said she was feeling sick and she couldn’t take care of us anymore. So she moved back with her husband leaving us behind and he took care of Auntie. Now we did not have anyone in the world. So I convinced William that I would try to earn a little money. Auntie had told us that if we’ll ever need money, then we should do the following: Whenever a stranger would sit down on the bench, we would sit down and polish his shoes. Then we would hold out our hands and he would plop down three dollars into our hands. Since we’d do that often, and also since I encouraged William to do it, too, we both split up the money and either we saved a little and spent a little or spent it all on food and clothes. One day, since I had saved a little, I had a little extra money. And guess what I saw, a convenience store. Auntie told me that if you go and buy a ticket, you could have more than you’ll ever need to survive. So I told William what I was going to do, and he agreed. So we went over to the store, plopped down one dollar onto the counter, and the clerk gave us a lottery ticket. He told me how to play the game, and said that I could sit down on the desk beside the counter and play the game. I had more brains, Auntie always said, so I told William that I would do it. When I gave the finished card to the clerk there was this loud tingling sound that came from the computer. He said, “You’ve won a thousand dollars each week for life, kid!” I screamed!!!!!!! The clerk said I would receive each check of one thousand dollars by mail on every Monday. I told him that I didn’t have a home, so I didn’t have a mailbox either. He said that he’d give me a thousand dollars right now so I could start off a new life with the lottery I won. So you now can guess what we did now with all the money. We first bought a house, then furniture, then food, then fancy clothes, and casual clothes, and decorations for the whole house, then a submission for school, then, then, everything else twins like us would ever want. We thought we were in Heaven! We lived a life in luxury, and then after about eighteen years, we both got married to wonderful people. I got married to Thomas Grand,

 and William got married to a pretty lady named Rosy McLain. I    

was the one who won the lottery but William was a part of it too, I gave him five hundred dollars each week. Thomas and I moved over to Toronto, Ontario, and William moved to Florida, and spent all the days with his beloved, Rosy. After a couple of months, Thomas and I received a baby girl. We named her Olivia. So Olivia Grand was sent to pre-school, and then school, then middle school, and then high school. She was a very hard worker, but sometimes she took the wrong track. Whenever she saw her friends all huddled up in a group, they would be smoking. Sometimes she would ask her friends for a cigar, and join in. She thought it tasted horrible, but she was getting more attention for smoking so she decided to  try and never quit smoking. When I came to know that my daughter was smoking, I was furious. Olivia was in rage. She snatched the key to the safety-deposit box. Without making a noise, she opened it and stole all the money. She took it and dumped it under her secret drawer under her bed. The next Monday morning, Linda received her thousand dollars but was wondering why she didn’t have any money left in the safety deposit box besides the thousand dollars she had received last Monday. She told Thomas, and Thomas contacted the police. When the police arrived, a tall policewoman asked me what was the matter. I said, “I had more than a million dollars in my safety deposit box yesterday, and now, I don’t have anything else than my two thousand dollars I had calculated from the thousand dollars I got last week and the ones I got now.” “This is serious business, so how was your husband acting today?”  “Well, he was acting normal, the way he always does. “And your twin?” “He’s in Florida on his honeymoon.” “And your daughter?” “A little weird nowadays.” “C’mon policemen, it’s time to tackle the case”, screeched the tall policewoman. They jogged out of my house and ran to the van. Come on, we have got to get to Olivia’s school!

They drove off to the school and they marched into Olivia’s classroom. Is Olivia Grand here? I am her said a girl in a pink T-shirt. We have to take you home and ask you a few questions ma’am. But I didn’t do anything wrong. We have got serious business to do with you so let’s head out. So they drove back to Linda’s house. Olivia met Linda inside and asked what the matter was. Why have you been acting so strange lately Olivia, said Linda. Have you tried to hide something from me? “No I haven’t mom”, said Olivia. Just then the policewomen said that they had to search the entire house for some proof that she didn’t steal anything from her mother’s safety deposit box. “Let’s go check your room out, we’ve got to see that you haven’t hidden anything from us.” said the policewoman.  “Why would I be lying, come on”, said Olivia, but like seriously why would I hide something from my mom”. Linda said, “This is a policewoman’s job, if you’re a policewoman then you got to do what you got to do". “Fine”, said Olivia, my room is the one on the extreme right”. “Ok so Olivia, where have you hidden the money? Asks her mom, Linda. “But I didn’t hide it”, said Olivia, I didn’t hide it, I am not lying, just go to my room and look in my room!” The police checked every corner of her room but couldn’t find it. Finally they found a box under the bed covered with dust but unfortunately didn’t find anything in it. Then they checked the basement. “Look, I see something”, said the tall policewoman. “Look, I see something, oh, it’s a pile of clothes.” Said the policewoman. “Wait, look under it, usually my brother hides everything in his laundry bin,” said a policeman. So the policewoman looked under it and all around it.

“I FOUND IT!!!!!!!” The police cops ran back upstairs to Linda and her daughter. “You’re coming with us”, said the police to Olivia. “What did I do?” “They showed the bundle of bills with a bit of nail polish on a few. “This is evidence,” said the police- woman to Olivia and her mom. “Olivia, I will punish you for this, go to…”  “I’m sorry Mrs. Thompson but Olivia will be taken to court for this wrong action she has made.” “I’m sorry, I admit I stole the money, so please, please don’t take me to the court.” “Either you spend twenty-five years in jail or you go to court,” said one of the cops. “Let me give one more kiss and hug to my mom and May I call my dad and say goodbye?” “Yes, but just in case you’re not going to do something suspicious let me dial the number for you,” says Linda. “Hello, dad, I love you, and I’m sorry I stole the money, so I am going to jail for twenty-five years, love ya, bye.” Olivia was taken to the police station and was sent to jail immediately. After her years in jail, Olivia was a changed person. Her parents forgave her and she was given five hundred and seventy-five dollars to start a pet store. To buy one it cost quite a lot. And then, the animals, that too was a lot. Then, she became the manager and also a cashier at her own shop and called it: Petstuff. It was a very popular shop those days. She quitted smoking, and she became a wonderful person and helped the needy. At last she had received something in life. Oh my, did you notice that two months after Olivia become a changed person, William received a baby boy. I’ll tell you all about his life, in my next story, Run Like the Wind.