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Fantasy, Harris Burdick, Just Desert, Writing

Just Desert

 

All because a moment in class a boy named Sven is shy. It all started when Sven was in school at recess. He was swinging on the monkey bars when a boy named Julian walked by and accidently bumped into him so Sven fell off. Sven hit the ground and broke his leg! He was screaming in pain when the nurse rushed down with a wheel chair. Soon after, Sven woke up in the hospital. The doctor told him he would be fine but he needed crutches for a month.

The next day at school Sven was getting treated great by everybody. Julian was getting jealous because Sven was getting attention so he came up with a plan. So one day Julian waited behind Sven’s house until he left for school and Sven’s mom left for work. Once they were gone Julian snuck through the window and took out any source of light. Once he finished he stayed at the park until school was over.

After school Sven got picked up by his mom named Emily and when they got home they saw all the lights were gone. So Emily bought a jack-o-lantern for $5.00. When she got home she cut it open to get the light. It was a candle so they set it on the table and went to sleep.

During the night the candle came alive and on it was a face! The candle’s name was Bertus. Bertus tiptoed over to Sven and Sven woke up. Sven was surprised by this and almost fainted. The candle told Sven to put his hand in the flame. At first Sven said no but the flame told him he wouldn’t get hurt so Sven did it.

A few seconds later Sven was in a wonderland! There was candy everywhere! There were giant jellybeans for houses and chocolate bars for doors. In the Jellybean houses lived gingerbread families. Sven started drooling at the sight. He saw a dark jellybean at the end of the row of jellybean houses that seemed to be black licorice. All the gingerbread people told him to stay away from it because there is a witch that lives there.

Sven stayed there for a long time until one day Sven decided to take out the witch. So Sven sprinkled some magic sugar dust on him that made him invincible! When the witch heard him at door she grabbed a potion and put it behind her back before she let him in. When she let him in the witch shut the door and threw the poison potion on him. Sven knew she would try this that’s why he put on the invincible dust. When the witch saw it didn’t affect him she turned scared. Sven saw the boiling pot of water where she made her potions and ran for it. She followed him and Sven turned around and dumped the boiling pot on her she screamed. She was yelling “Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” when she was melting.

Sven finished her and now all the gingerbread people would never worry again. They chanted for Sven and made him the king of their land. They had a feast and Sven never came home.

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, Just Desert

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There was a family that lived on Maple Street in an old town house in New York City. There was a mom and a daughter. Andrea is the mom she has black hair and black vicious eyes she is 35 years old and she is also a grumpy woman. Katherine is Andrea’s daughter. Katherine has light brown curly hair with purple highlights. She has caramel brown eyes and is 15 years old .Katherine’s favorite desert is pumpkin pie. She also loves music and singing her favorite color is purple that’s why she has purple highlights.

So one day Katherine wanted pumpkin pie for dinner .So they went to the pumpkin patch to go find a good pumpkin to make pumpkin pie for dinner. Katherine found a good pumpkin and everybody agreed to buy that pumpkin so they did.

When they got home Katherine started taking out all the ingredients she needed to make the pumpkin pie. The recipe called for ¾ cups of granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves, 2 large eggs, 1 can (12fl. oz) NESTLE Carnation,Evaporated Milk ,1 unbaked 9inch (4cupharris pumpkin volume )deep dish pie shell and whipped cream. She also took out the untensils that she needed. She called her mom to make the pie. Andrea got the pumpkin and a sharp knife then she reached over and the pumpkin started to turn purple! She lowered the knife and it grew even brighter also it started to rott .She called Katherine and showed her what had happened.

Katherine said, “Mom what did you do?”

Andrea said, “I just grabbed the knife and was about to cut it and bam it started to turn purple and it started to rot.”

Katherine understood that it was a mistake.

That night they ate chicken and rice for dinner. They left for bed. They lived there lives and still to this day, Katherine remembers what happened to that good old pumpkin that she was about to eat!

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, Just Desert, Narrative, Published Work, Writing

Just Desert

There was a CRAZY man. His house was really CREEPY and HAUNTED.  He went to the pumpkin patch in the next town and he bought a pumpkin and took it home. The pumpkin was large, tall, and bright orange.  He got home and brought the pumpkin into the house.  He ate his dinner of pizza and chicken.  He was planning on having pumpkin pie for dessert.

He heard a noise coming from the kitchen.  It sounded like someone harris pumpkinwas destroying the kitchen.  He ran into the kitchen.  The pumpkin was GLOWING.  He picks up a large KNIFE from the counter.   Every time he moved the knife closer the pumpkin glows BRIGHTER.  He cuts it!

 

It BLOWS up in his face and covers the floor with pumpkin pieces and pumpkin guts.  A seed from the pumpkin grew right away on the kitchen floor.  The man looked at the pumpkin. He ran at the pumpkin with his knife. He CUT the pumpkin.  The pumpkin grew back and grew bigger.  The man was AMAZED!

 

The man walked closer, the pumpkin grew ARMS. The man walked closer, the pumpkin grew LEGS and got taller. The pumpkin now had scary and evil face like a pumpkin on Halloween.  The man walked closer and the pumpkin scratched him! He was bleeding from his face. He hit the pumpkin 3 times in a row with the knife! The pumpkin was very angry. The pumpkin bit him hard.

 

“OUCH!” he screams.

 

The man hit the pumpkin. Seeds came out of the pumpkin and the seeds grew into evil pumpkins just like the one he just cut with the knife. Now there are 2 new pumpkins to fight. The man was shocked and FREAKED out!

 

He ran through the kitchen and kicked down the door.  He looked back and saw that the pumpkins were following him.  He ran to his driveway and jumped into his car.  He looked around and didn’t see the pumpkins.  The man drove to Rangely, Colorado and was never seen again!

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, The Seven Chairs, Writing

The Seven Chairs

harris flying chair“Oh my!” said a lady when she saw a flying chair.

That evening on the news the reporter said, “4 chairs flew from a church. The first one to Egypt, second to Africa, third one to Antarctica and the fourth was amazing no one could even explain… Baltimore. Can you believe it?”

Everyone gasped.

“Oh my glob!” A little girl said.

The church was looking at every single chair and wondering how this was happening a woman asked, “May I sit here?”

“No!” They all yelled

She almost dropped her book as she looked all around the church for somewhere to sit.  Finally there was a chair that two men were in front. She was too tired to ask if she could sit there, so she didn’t. She sat there for a little while and WHOOSH! There she was floating in the air.

She was about to scream, but she decided to be quiet because she knew it was going to disturb all of the men. Then the doors of the church magically opened.

She was going so fast she was about to fall off the chair. Once she saw the Atlantic Ocean she screamed.

Not long after that she finally landed. She looked around for a while.

“Am I in…..”

Everyone interrupted her and asked the same question….

“Comment auez-vous ici?” She had a confused look on her face.

“What are you saying?” she said to all of them.

Then they had a confused look on their faces as well.

She finally realized she was in France. They were speaking French. The fifth chair ended up in France.

That day she was on the news. 2 months later she became extremely rich and famous she thanked that chair for her famousness and kept it in her family forever.

 

 

BY: Tyfani

 

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, The Third Floor Bedroom, Writing

The Third Floor Bedroom

Leon wanted to move into a house with three floors. When he was walking across the street he saw people moving out of a house.

 Leon ran up to them and said “Are you guys moving in or moving out?” 

They were dead silent. They just put their bags in their car and drove across the street and out of Crystal Street.  

Leon saw the house that they moved out of.  He noticed that it had three floors.   

Leon was happy but he wondered.  Why the family moved out of the house immediately. But he harris birdsdidn’t care. He ran home and told his Mom and Dad.

“Why do you want to move out of our house and move into the other one?’’ said mom. 

Dad said “Ok.”  

But it was in 5 more days. Leon couldn’t wait to move but he waited until it was moving day.

Moving day came and Leon was going miss his old house but it was time for his family to upgrade from two floors to three floors. Mom went to the office to see if her family could move into the house on Crystal Street. The manager gave her the keys and they went to Crystal Street.  

Leon was still wondering about the reason the people moved out?

 Leon was worried about the house. He wanted to move in but he wanted to find out why the people moved out but they left so it was too late for that.  Mom put the key in the slot and twisted it and Leon went in to explore the house. He started from the bottom floor and went to the top. At the top was a bedroom with bird wallpaper. Leon asked his parents if he can have the bedroom with Claire. Claire is a Newfoundland. Mom got Claire a doggy bed and Leon put his stuff into the bedroom.

 Leon realized the birds on the wall were doves. The bird he was researching for his school project. Leon went to go in the backyard to go see the items that were out there. Leon thought his family could grow flowers in the yard.                                                                     

Sunset was almost here.  Leon got ready for bed.  He opened the window to see the sunset. Leon fell asleep and left the window open.

 It all began when he left the window open. The doves suddenly started to get off the wall and flew out of the window and coming back every 5 minutes.  

Leon was getting ready for school at 7:30 am. When Leon went to school he realized that he left the window open.  He had to wait until the end of the day to close the window.

At 2:02 pm Leon ended his day and went home and met a girl named Rebecca.

When he went home he saw a dove on his shelf. He was glad that he was new to Hollywood. But not glad about the dove in his room

Leon wondered. How a dove got into his room? Leon caught the dove.  He realized a dove on his wall was missing.  He realized that the dove in his hand was the one missing on his wall. Leon freaked! He put the dove back on the wall and closed the window.

“Now I know why the people moved out of this house.” said Leon in a scared voice. 

Leon was so frightened that he fell asleep around 3:18 am. He wanted to change the color of his wallpaper to blue his favorite color. 

“Sure why not.” said Mom and Dad.  

They got painting supplies and got to work. After a few hours the room looked better than it looked before. Leon was happy. Now without the doves around he could get some rest. Leon saw a dove out on his window sill. He opened the window and let him in. Claire started barking and Leon told her to be quiet and gave her a doggy treat. She calmed down. Leon let the dove free and put the dove is out where it belongs: outside not in some room on a wallpaper.

When Leon went to school it was the last day of school. Leon really couldn’t wait until summer vacation. But Leon saw a dove on his desk. Leon thought that he would get in trouble so he put it in his desk. Then he pecked his beak on Leon’s arm. Leon went unconscious. He woke up and he was at his house. He forgot what had happened. Leon was trying to remember what happened. But he couldn’t. He thought that he had lost his memory.  In a few hours he remembered what happened. The dove hurt him but how? He found the dove and researched it. Claire barked at the dove. Leon gave her a doggy snack and she calmed down.

 Leon didn’t found out what kind of dove it was.

 Leon went to school the next day and went to the library to get some books about doves. Leon finally found out what kind of dove it was. It was the North American Dove. Leon wanted to see one in person, even though he had already saw one.

 Leon learned an important lesson to never open the third floor window again.

 

 By: Carlos Pineda

 

 

  

 

 

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, Just Desert, Writing

Just Desert

Attem Avenue was a weird place where there was NO GRASS, barely any trees .There was a green house. The owner’s name was Lauren.

Lauren was 28 years old had one child named Lindsey. Lauren speaks Italian, but not much English, she had long blonde hair. Lauren was a widow.

Lindsey was a girl with long curly blonde hair. She was 7 years old but Lindsey spoke perfect English not much Italian. She goes to Dipson Oak Elementary School.

Lindsey had a field trip to the Roseville’s pumpkin patch.

Lindsey had to learn a lot about the biggest pumpkin in the world. Halloween was coming up, that’s why.

When Lindsey got to the pumpkin patch she found out the largest pumpkin weighs 911.27 kg and that it takes 105 days for a pumpkin to fully grow.

When Lindsey came home from school she asked her mom “Mom, tomorrow can we go to Roseville’s pumpkin patch.”

Lauren said “Yes.”The next day Lauren woke up extra early for a surprise.

When Lindsey woke up she went down stairs and she didn’t see her mom. So she decided to go back to bed. A few minutes later Lauren came back.

She called Lindsey and said that she had a surprise for her. But Lindsey had fallen asleep. So Lauren let Lindsey sleep a little more.

Lindsey woke up and wondered if mom was back?

She saw a pumpkin on the counter, it was huge and it looked really rare.

“MOM!” Lindsey yelled.

“YES!” Lauren shouted.

“What is this huge pumpkin doing on the counter?” Lindsey said.

“Well when I came home I yelled out your name and said I had a surprise for you but you were still sleeping” Lauren said.

“When I had woke up you weren’t home so I went back to sleep” Lindsey said.

“Oh, but I guess you already saw the surprise I got you” Lauren said.

“Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,” Lindsey said giving Lauren a big huge hug.

10 days had passed. It was October 30.

“1 more day till Halloween.” said Lindsey.

Lauren and I went to the store to buy Halloween costumes and Halloween decorations on Sunday. When they got home they put up the new decorations. The house looked dark and scary.

Lauren decided to bake a pumpkin pie because Lindsey decided not to put the big scary pumpkin outside.  Lauren got a knife to cut the pumpkin. It began to glow but Lauren hadn’t seen it.

When she lowered the knife it grew even brighter.

Lauren got scared so she yelled out,” Lindsey!”

Lindsey came quickly and jumped.

Lindsey was scared. She got a large and sharp knife and she stabbed it into the pumpkin.

The pumpkin just shrank and it turned into a mini pumpkin.

Lindsey was scared at the moment but, she knew that it was Halloween tomorrow. She was worried that she was going to dream about the pumpkin.

Lindsey slept great. She woke up and ran downstairs, and had her breakfast. She went to school dressed as a dark angel. She had the scariest, but greatest Halloween ever.

 

                                                                                                                     By: Marlin Salazar

 

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, Narrative, The Harp, Writing

The Harp

There was a boy named Lewis. He lives with both of his parents. His mom had blond hair, the dad had  hair that was dark as night. Lewis had golden blond hair. Lewis was 10 years old. the family had a collie named is Toby. They lived in a small town in Texas.  Lewis had blue eyes the mom has brown eyes the dad has blue eyes two the moms name was Marry the dads names was Jeff the last of the family’s name is Harrison. They live in Dallas, Texas.

One day Lewis was bored so he went outside to play with Toby. They went to the woods and they played. When heharris harp was playing he heard strange noises so he went to investigate.

They see what looks like the figure of a boy. They follow him and find a harp. Lewis picked it up and a notebook with songs.

He played the song called “Clear Land” but it had a warning. Lewis ignored it and played the harp.

Lewis ran home to show his mom and dad but the house and town were gone. So it’s true he thought, it’s really true. He rushed through the notebook to find out how to reverse the warning. The notebook said to play the song backwards so Lewis played it backwards. His house, mom, and dad come back.

He put the harp and notebook back in the forest.

He went back home. Before he went inside he saw a boy coming out the woods. It looked like he had the exact same harp and notebook with him.

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, The Third Floor Bedroom, Writing

The Third-Floor Bedroom

 

It all began when someone left the window open, on a spring morning on April 12, 2003.

A boy named Dylan was eating breakfast, when all of a sudden the bus came. He ran to the bus stop. When he ran he felt like something was missing. But, he wasn’t worried.

When he got on the bus he had remembered that something it was that he had left his window open.

Meanwhile at Dylan’s house the doves that were painted on his wall wanted to scare Dylan because Dylan has bad dreams about the doves.

The doves wanted revenge. One by one each dove was getting off the wall to steal Dylan’s heart and mind. So that Dylan could turn into a bad child.

After school he was fine he played video games and ate dinner, and then it was time for him to go to bed.

He dreamed badly about the doves again but, this time his dream was worse than the last one. He had dreamed about him going to change his personality. When he woke up he was scared and also worried.

Dylan thought, “Could it be my friends who are going to change my personality?”

When he got to school his friends said “Dylan come with us.”

Dylan didn’t answer instead he ran.

“DYLAN” said his friends again shocked.

“What’s up with Dylan” said Lucas one of Dylan’s friends.

“He’s acting different” says Kevin.

“We have never seen him like this” says Lucas.

“What should we do to help him?” say all of them.

During lunch Dylan didn’t look at his friends he had moved far away from them.

Then all of the doves flew into his mind but, in spirits then Dylan starts acting different then he was before.

His teacher asked Dylan, “Dylan why are you acting differently you haven’t even started your work.”

Dylan didn’t answer.

His teacher says again “Dylan I’m talking to you!”

The bell rings. Dylan leaves class.

After class Dylan’s teacher talked to the principal about Dylan’s behavior. The principal promised Dylan’s teacher that she would talk to Dylan’s parents.

Before school ended Dylan’s principal talked to his parents and his parents said that they would talk to Dylan as soon as he got home from school.

When Dylan came home from school Dylan told his parents what had happened with the doves was wondering if he should tell his mom about the whole personality changing thing.

His mother said “Why didn’t you tell me before like when you were dreaming about the doves?”

Dylan didn’t answer.

Dylan’s dad asked Dylan “Dylan, do you want to go to a psychiatrist”.

Dylan said “Will that help me with anything?”

Dylan’s dad said “They will help you to try to forget about the doves and also will help you change your personality back to the way it was before”.

After 3 weeks of Dylan going to the psychiatrist he got better and he could hang out with his friends again.

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