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Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Just Desert, Narrative, Writing

Just Desert By: Nyima Tucker

A big house a small family the Tucker family with two kids and with a mom and dad for now.The family  lived on 2207 N St NW, Washington, DC 20007 in 2016 the family was living in a nice but old neighborhood it was a sad sad day if you were in this family and their close friends because the Abigail Tucker had died she was the mother of the family.

 

3 years later

 

The Tuckers were doing fine they were living in the same house same old neighborhood on 2207 N St NW, Washington, DC 20007 it was a pretty day the sun was out the sky was blue there are roses swanning in the breeze. Nyima was and her little sis Alexa started to play in the grass and in the little stream skipping rocks over and over again small and big Nyima went to go play on the old broken bridge Alexa wanted to follow and play on the bridge too but she was to little but she followed any way Nyima said not to when they got there the bridge started to move back and forth one shaking so fast she went falling and she fell on sitter.

 

Nyima did not know anything about her sis trying to play with her but the problem was that she is not allowed to be with her Nyima was in panic her dad came and saw what had happen.

 

“How could you let this happen why did you let her come with you the dad yelled”

 

“ I did not see her it is not my fault Nyima”

 

“ Let’s just go home and I will talk to you when we get home dad said in disappointment”

 

When the family got home Nyima went right into her room she did not even eat dinner she went right for bed. The next day Nyima went to school and her sister Alexa too the two go to the same school but one thing that Nyima is going to school is that her sister is going to talk about and blame it all on her. Nyima got bullied that day so much her friends knew what happened and made fun of her and yelled and called names. when it was time to go home some of her friends that lived near her went to her house to pretend that they were sorry and took Nyima outside and beat her up.

 

Many days past and Nyima still got bullied but she still did not tell anybody that night she went outside with a knife Nyima went into her backyard and there was a big scream the dad and Alexa ran into the yard and there was blood all over the grass than when the dad flashed his flashlight and than Nyima’s dead body was just lying on the ground it looked that she was sleep next to a puddle of blood and with a knife in her hand her father had Alexa go to get his iPhone she so fast in a fright she grabbed the and went back outside.

 

“Alexa go get my phone and fast he yelled”

 

“Yes father she cried”

 

Nyima’s father hesitated when he was calling 911      

The dispatcher answered Nyima’s father started to talk about what he had saw it was a tragedy. The ambulance, The po po had came to the scene that was not so pretty the body was rushed to the hospital (I do not know why she is dead).  After Nyima was being rushed to the hospital obviously she was pronounced dead.

 

“Why did this happen why the the father cried”

 

“Why did the beep stop beeping Alexa said”

 

Don’t tell what you’re going to tell me Alexa said looking up at her father”

She is…..

 

Tell me no more Alexa ran out the room crying with pain in her heart. There father ran trying to catch her Alexa was having a temper tantrum her father picked her up and carried her to the car and drove her home that was not a fun night as soon they arrived to the house the father put Alexa to bed. The father was crying almost all night he could not sleep he was thinking about what has happened all night it was really sad night.

There was a funeral a week after that night it was really sad everyone had cried.  Nyima was turned into a ghost she could go in to people haunt them and people can not see her she wanted to get her payback and she has a awesome plan she was going to pick a pumpkin from the patch she was going to poison it.  Now it  was time to cut it when she put the poison and she lowered the knife and it grew even brighter. She was going to get her payback in a evil way Alexa was going to end up dying and once she was done doing her homework.

 

The father went down the steps after cleaning up and than the doorbell rang he went to the door no one was there but there was the pie in the box with a big red ribbon.

 

“Nice but let us who it is from the father said”

 

“Maybe aunt Alexa yelled”

 

“No it can’t be her father said”

 

Alexa asked for a piece just like Nyima planned but hoping that her father did not want any of it. He did not the pie a couple days after Alexa got sick and one day they she was rushed to the hospital she had really really bad food poisoning she stayed in the there for a while and she died. Nyima was so happy but now her dad was all alone she did not really care Nyima did not know what was going to happen to her father but she still watched him day after day.      

       

Archie Smith, Boy Wonder, Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, Writing

Gracie Archie Smith:Boy Wonder

Archie Smith was new to the neighborhood. He was a good kid, but was very small, which made him a target for all the bullies of the school. Everyday they would take his books and held them up really high so that he couldn’t reach them. It was humiliating

“You there, young boy.”a man called from across the street. “I have some wonderful items for sale in my small shop. Take anything you like. Only 15 cents plus no tax.”

“Hey mister? What’s this book?”Archie asked while he was holding up a leather book with the words”Boy Wonder”on the cover. “That book can be any book. A storybook, a drawing book, a poem book, anything your mind desires!”he explained. “That’ll be 10 cents since you’re the only one that wants to buy anything from my store.”Archie gave him the money and went home.”

A tiny voice asked”Could this be the one?” It was hiding in the shadows of the alleyway.”No. Not yet. Give the boy some time. He’s only just began.”the street seller said.

While in his room he was bored. He didn’t have anything better to do so he drew a monster cat in the little book. But the next day, when he woke up the monster he drew was alive. It was eating the fish his parents use for dinner by the fireplace. To avoid being eaten alive, he poured all the milk from the fridge into the mixing bowl and gave it to the fearful feline.

On his way to school, he thought of how to explain the creepy cat sitting on the living room sofa. But when he got home, he saw his parents playing with the freak of nature.” Archie, this is incredible! I’ve always wanted a cat but your father said they’re too expensive. But thanks to this, you’ve saved us 4,000$ dollars in insurance, food, toys, and house damage.”his mom explained.

Could it be possible that the book is more than a book? It had made his parents happy, so by doing more of these creations he could make the whole world happy. So that night he wondered what would happen if he wrote something in the book? But before his pencil touch the pad, a shrill voice yelled”Stop!” He turned around to see where the voice came from. It was from a tall ghost lady. She had pitch black eyes, long hair that was so long she to tuck it into her clothes.

“I am the ghost of this town.”her shrieking said.”My name is Moralic. I was the inventor of that book you have now. A long time ago the book was known for granting power and wealth to it’s user. Everyone heard of it and wanted the book for themselves. With too much power, society could collapse and the world could be under control by who knows! I burned it with my dying body but when I got to the spirit world, the pages were fake. Someone took the pages and put it in another book. Hand it to me quick.”she begged as she moved forward.

Archie gave her the book and she evilly smiled.”Are you ok Miss?”he asked.”You idiot! I’m not a ghost! I’m a killer phantom!”she said.”And now thanks to this book, I have all the powers I could want. I’d let you live, but that would be boring.”she said. Her fingernails became black claws, she now had five eyes, and her head melted and became a skeleton. She was a horrid being of pure darkness. But then monster cat came and attacked her, with his talons ripping out her hair and his teeth biting out her eyes. She dropped the book on the lawn.

Archie made a risky move and ran out into the lawn to get the book. He ran into his house and down into the basement to think of a plan. Everyone came outside and other people screamed. They called every force of the army there was. But none of them succeeded in killing this monster.”Hey horror show!”Archie yelled.” Try killing these!” And suddenly, his garage door broke out and warriors of the pencil were unleashed.

There was an eight armed ninja girl with the strength of ten wrestlers, a kickboxing fairy with a bad attitude, and a Minotaur that was also a florist.”Warriors of the Pencil…attack!”he yelled. Spider Ninja Girl sprung into action and kicked-flipped her head off while the the kickboxer fairy was punching her ribs to break the out and fly them to safety. As for the florist Minotaur, he was putting flowers around her and then he stomped on her head crushing the essence of afterlife out of it.

A spirit floated above the broken skull. It went into an opening portal in the sky.”This isn’t the end! I will be back for that book and nothing can stop me!”it’s last words were. Archie’s warriors faded away into the air. It was sad to see them go.”Sayonara, young Smith. Take my headband as something to remember me.”said Spider Ninja Girl. You weren’t a great fighter, but you’re still a somewhat hero to me. Take my pixie dust necklace”the kickboxing fairy said.”I picked this for you. Keep it healthy and alive.”the Minotaur said.
The next day the mayor of town gave Archie a medal for his braveness. He also got mentioned everywhere in the Daily, Local, and TV news. The new pedestal in the mayor’s office says”Archie Smith:Boy Wonder.” He’s the hero of this world, and the magic world.

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, The Third Floor Bedroom, Writing

The Third Floor Bedroom By Derek Lee

It was 1680, Spring, an evil Wizard was living in the house on maple street. He had a lot of potions and spells that can be dangerous or safe. Then suddenly he saw a Dove in the window. The Wizard opened the window and saw a Dove. He brang the Dove into house to duplicate the Dove. The Wizard had an EVIL plan. First he put the Dove into the duplicator machine. After that he got some potions and spilled it into the Dove. Suddenly the Dove had so much powers that he was out of control. Then the Dove duplicated 100 million. The Wizard was shocked, her plans were ruined. The 100 million doves attacked the Wizard. The Wizard had died and the doves taken over.

 

It was 1980, Spring, Luigi moved into the house on maple street. He was kind of scared because of his mansion that he used to own with ghosts in it. Luigi checked all the rooms to see if there was ghosts. But only one room had wall papers of 100 doves. Then he closed the door and went downstairs to the kitchen to eat. After Luigi ate then he went to his brother’s house in the city, Mario.

 

It was afternoon Luigi came back home, but he felt something breezy upstairs in the room with wall papers of 100  doves. He went upstairs and opened the door to check the room. Then he saw a window open. Luigi was kind of scared, it all began when someone left the window open. So almost everyday the window opens up when he comes back from home and he had to close the window.

The next day Luigi putted some cameras to see who keeps on opening the window. After he came back from the restaurant he rushed upstairs to get the camera, came back downstairs to see what happened. But nothing happened or nobody opened the window. The only thing that he can think of, Professor E. Gadd. He called Professor E. Gadd to come to his house. Professor E. Gadd was a scientist and an inventor. He built the Poltergust 3000 which he gave it to Luigi (The Poltergust 3000 is a vacuum cleaner that sucks thing and can turn into a backpack). He waited about 6 hours, then somebody knocked the door.

 

Luigi opened the door and saw Professor E. Gadd with his backpack. They went into the living room to talk. Luigi told everything what happened but Professor E. Gadd can’t help because he has other jobs to do. The next day he went upstairs and into the room silently. Then Luigi saw a Dove in the window. Suddenly the Dove opened the window with its powers. After he opened the window Luigi closed the door silently. He was shocked but it was battle time.

 

Luigi got his Poltergust 3000 and went upstairs. He opened the door silently but he did not saw anything except the window opened. He looked  out the window then suddenly he felt so much shake in the house. Luigi thought it was an earthquake but it was the house moving up, he was super scared. While it was going up he closed every window but he kept on falling because he was in air. Luigi went downstairs and saw a staircase going down. He never saw the basement before. So he was going to check the basement.

 

When he went to the basement he felt that he was in space. He went to the window and saw the planet earth. Then he saw a Dove sitting in an engine with a timer. The timer was in 1 minutes and Luigi had to stop it. The only problem was the Dove. Luigi tried to punch at the Dove but he teleported and hit Luigi. Luigi was dizzy and the Dove teleported nowhere. Suddenly the timer was in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, KABOOOOOM.

 

Then Luigi woke up in the sand. He was surprised that he was in earth and he survived the explosion. He stood up but he didn’t know where he was. So he explored the island. Luigi saw a bridge in the forest with a sign that says HAWAII. Luigi had never went to Hawaii. Then he went through the bridge. Luigi kept walking and walking but saw two paths. The one on the left says Clean way and the one on the right says Dirty way. Luigi chose the Dirty way because someone might have switched the direction. Luigi checked the Dirty way and clean. But the Clean way was dirty. So he switched the directions in their right position and moved on to the Clean way.

 

After he went in the Clean way Luigi saw a big town. There were a lot of people shopping, swimming, and more. Then he saw a Dove teleported by somewhere. Luigi had its chance to catch the Dove but he teleported nowhere again. At night Luigi went to the motel and got a room to rest. He got his Poltergust 3000 and got some food to eat. He packed his stuff for tomorrow’s adventure. Then Luigi went to sleep like a rock.

 

At morning Luigi woke up, ate, and got ready for his next adventure. Today he talked to some people to ask where the airport was. He went to the airport to get his ticket and got on the plane. He was going back to Maryland. After the 8 hours, 32 minutes ride to Maryland he got off the plane. Then he rushed out of the airport to go to the house on maple street. But he had to call someone to pick him up. So he called Mario and Luigi waited for about 4 hours. Then Mario came with a fancy car. Luigi got in the car with his Poltergust 3000. He told Mario to go to his house.

 

After 2 hours of driving Mario dropped him off in Luigi’s house. But there was no house, it was just dug house. Luigi turned around and Mario’s car was gone. He remembered that he had a car too. Luigi ran to the parking lot to see if there was his car. Then he saw his car sitting in the middle of the parking lot with no cars parked. He went to his Poltergust 3000 and got his car key. Luigi got into his car but there was no gas. Luigi pushed his car for 1 hour then saw a gas station. But he was too tired to put the gas in the car. So he began to go to sleep in the car.

 

In the afternoon somebody knocked a lot on the window in Luigi’s car and he woke up. Luigi opened the window then asked the person what time it was. The person did not respond him because he was mad that he slept in the car by the gas station. Then he got surprised because he slept for 4 hours. So he went out the car and got the gas from the gas station to put it in the car. After his car had gas, he paid for the gas and drove quickly back into his old home.

 

When he arrived to his old home he went inside to check if someone was inside. But then Luigi got teleported in the park and there was the Dove, watching Luigi. Suddenly the ground began to shake, the Dove had white eyes. But it was not an earthquake, it was the earth splitting apart in half. Then Luigi turned on his Poltergust 3000, easy, to suck the Dove. But it did not work so he turned on medium and the Dove was almost in the Poltergust 3000. Then Luigi turned on hard but the Dove was on the tip of the vacuum. As the earth was splitting apart, Luigi pressed the EXTREME button on the Poltergust 3000 and sucked the Dove inside the Poltergust 3000. After he sucked the Dove, he turned off the vacuum then saw the Dove stuck in the Poltergust 3000. But the earth was still splitting apart.

 

People were screaming and freaking out. Luigi kept thinking and thinking then got a solution. He turned on the EXTREME button on the Poltergust 3000 and tried to pull the other half of the earth to stick it together. Then the problem was solved. 1 hour later everybody was happy.

 

Luigi got a new house and told Mario to live here with him.

 

“Yes” Mario said.
1 years later Luigi and Mario were heros. They had to save Princess Peach because Bowser always kidnaps her.

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Mr. Linden's Library, Narrative, Writing

Mr. Linden’s Library

Back in 2014 there was a girl named Anna Grace was just a normal 15 year old in sunny Sacramento, California. She wasn’t social, so she spent her time at Mr. Linden’s Library and read books. Anna Grace had blonde hair, blue eyes, she was an only child.

Anna Grace didn’t like to be bothered. She always listened to her parents but only sometimes, a lot of times she didn’t listen to other people’s reminders. She always felt rebellious when it came to people telling what to do when they weren’t her parents. Anna Grace came home from school at 4:15 pm. She needed a book, that she had to get at the library.

She ran upstairs grabbed her jacket. She’s ready to go. She hollered to her mom that was heading out. She didn’t want her mom to go psycho about where she is. She was halfway down the block. She saw this shadow figure but she didn’t want to investigate. Anna Grace ignored the mysterious figure.

Anna Grace was at the library finally. said to Mr. Linden. “Hey!! Mr Linden!! So may you help me? I’m trying to find this special book that I need for school. Can you help me?”

“Sure thing kiddo. Want a lollipop?” replied Mr. Linden.

Anna Grace nodded.

Mr. Linden was insanely sweet , always giving out candy to his favorite people.

“Is this the book you need??” Mr. Linden said pulling out the book.

“Yes!! It’s perfect!! It’s exactly what I need. Thanks Mr. Linden!”

“No problem kiddo!! If you want you can stay after, read your book if you would like. You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”

“I rather get home. I can stay after tomorrow! If that helps!”

“Okay!! I’m not offended. Also be awa- never mind. I warned he
r..”

She was out the door before Mr. Linden finished what he was saying. Anna Grace was halfway home when she saw another two mysterious figures but ignored it again. She hopped onto her bed. Then started to read the book.

About an hour into the book She flipped the next page, she saw 13 strange looking witches but she quickly shut the book. He had warned her about the book. Now it was too late. Two witches came out. The two witches were out of the book. They started to lock the door with their powers. The good witch, Stella was trying to tell Beatrice, to stop locking Anna Grace in. She just sat there in shock. Beatrice was the evil witch, she wanted to take over the whole world. Where Stella was just trying to have someone to be friends with.

“C-an I- hel-p yo-u?” She said shaking terrified.

“Yes. We need you to take us outside right Now.” replied Beatrice.

Stella nudged Beatrice with her elbow.

 

“Be nice Beatrice.”

 

Beatrice groaned, she was an evil witch. Beatrice wanted to do everything her way, she was furious. But she knew that the mission had to be done. Beatrice just went on with her mission.

 

Stella wasn’t mean to anyone, she just wanted to help make the world a better place. She wasn’t so sure about bringing Beatrice on the mission with her but she did anyway because Beatrice was her best friend and didn’t want to leave her alone.

Anna Grace grabbed a bag, she then put the witches inside the bag. Then walked outside then she set them down. let them fly but then Anna Grace knew she had made a huge mistake. Anna Grace was doomed. The whole world was doomed.

“WE DID IT!! WE ARE FREE AND WE WILL-” hollered Beatrice in excitement.

“BEATRICE!!!! Stop right this moment. We are not doing ANYTHING to harm California!!!” Stella screamed mad at Beatrice.

Beatrice ignored her and just flew away. Anna Grace ran after them but it was too late, they were gone into the California sky. Anna Grace was mad that she had let them fool her. She groaned.

Beatrice flew over the city and wondered. “What should I do now!!!!” Beatrice knew exactly what to do now. Beatrice dropped a bomb down into the middle of the city. Stella finally caught up to Beatrice. She was furious.
“THIS WAS NOT PART OF THE PLAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Screeched Stella.

“OH A master Doesn’t HAVE plans.”

“YOU’RE NOT A MASTER GET OVER IT!!! UGH WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!!!”

Beatrice wasn’t listening. So, Stella swooped down and put water everywhere and put the fire out. Beatrice was sitting in the air in disgust, she wasn’t happy that Stella ruined her plan to take over the world. Stella flew back to Anna Grace and sobbed.
“I’M so sorry!!!! Beatrice didn’t mean to do that.. She just wants to own the world and it be all hers!! Forgive us!!!!”

Anna Grace nodded and gave Stella a huge hug. Anna Grace was a forgiving person but she knew that they had done something that she couldn’t forgive them about. She didn’t know how to feel. The city she loved was destroyed, torn apart. She couldn’t regroup herself so she sat down, then started crying her eyes out.

“Wh-Why!! Did you have to do this!! You could’ve been a good witch Beatrice. You could have. But you didn’t that’s why witches like you shouldn’t live.” Horrifiedly Anna Grace said.

“You can’t mean that’s true!???” Screamed Stella.

Beatrice flew off mad that Anna Grace said that. No one heard from these witches in years. What happened to them you may ask?? That revolves with a mystery.

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, The Third Floor Bedroom, Writing

3rd floor bedroom -Raiyan Khan

In 2017 there was 3 flashy kids lived in the household and there names were   Jamie,Jason,Kevin. They all loved soccer and practiced everyday. They all loved the game  FiFa 17  and always played whenever they had time. The next morning was there game day for soccer. There team was called champions united and Kevin scored half the goals. The other team name was fc lions they beat them every year and they made fc lions cry every year that they roll around like little babies . Champions united had  became world champs because they were undefeated and qualified to the finals on columbus day. The flashy boys had the time of their lives Because their whole team scored and surprisingly the goalkeeper even scored.

 

In 2018 The flashy boys always wanted to look nice has came and so The *flashy* boys can look *flashy* so they had their rooms organized and make it *flashy* clean. The next day came and the three boys went to  third floor bedroom  so they can go clean up the room because it’s  dusty a


nd nobody goes into that room because it’ creepy.  Birds are coming non stop.then a bird came in then jamie squirmed then jamie fell out the window  and got heart really bad so then they had to take jamie to the hospital so he could recover.  But then the next day Kevin got a call from  Jason saying Jamie has past away for all his broken  bones but then Kevin squirmed  ran right into the door gets a big bump on his head and still gets up and he still gets up and faints in the middle of running to the hospital then jamie got locked in the hospital for ever and didn’t get to see his family  ever again.

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, The House on Maple Street, Writing

The House On Maple Street By Samuel

This story takes place in Md 13011 Jamieson Pl on maple street.The father Billy got a great job opportunity . Billy just got a job there so the family had to move there. The job was well paying and they got a nice place. His job was working for Alstrasoft, a multi million business.

But things didn’t go too well with 12 year old Jack, and 14 year old Amber. They had to move schools and leave all their friends to start a new live in Maryland. But there mom Melissa was also having a hard time adjusting to the new life, she had to leave her job that was strongly keeping the family going.

Jamieson Pl was a quiet neighborhood, it had beautiful trees surrounding the area, birds chirping everywhere, and it was an amazing place for any family. The schools in that area were also quiet and amazing. On their first day in there new house the coopers were settling in, unpacking moving stuff around, things like that.

 

Jack and Amber’s first day at their new schools was ok, they made a few friends, there classes were great, and the schools just felt so alive.

 

One friend that Jack made wanted to hang out with him so he asked him “where do you live?”

 

Jack said “13011 Jamieson Pl on maple street”

 

“Really i’ve heard rumors about that place they say that a mad scientist used to live there and was studying rockets, things went bad and while testing a rocket by scraping it to the bottom house the house shoots up in the air and was never seen again. But somehow 3 days, the house suddenly drops down at the exact place it was before it went up and the owner of the house puts it on sale”.

 

“What happened to the scientist?”

 

“ nobody knows”

 

“That’s a weird story” “ but it’s true” “whatever see you tomorrow” “ok”.

 

Back in California, most of the coopers neighbors had heard that rumor before and tried to warn them. But they didn’t listen to the warning. They were determined to move to Maryland.

 

The week went by and it was the weekend, so the coopers decided to go on a little outing to celebrate their big move. First they went for ice cream. Then they went to the beach. Finally, they went out to eat dinner.

 

The next day the coopers went on with their day as usual, but that night something strange happened.

 

The house started rumbling, everything started shaking, things moved around, everything was getting destroyed. There was loud sound in the area. The coopers were scared. They didn’t know what to do, and suddenly it started a countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Blast off.

 

The house shoot up in the air with amazing rockets underneath the house, It was a perfect lift-off. It went higher, and higher until the coopers were able to see Jupiter, They were in SPACE.

 

Everything just flashed before their eyes, The coopers were in space and it was strange, they were still breathing. Somehow they got oxygen from the inside of their house.

 

So the coopers were living in space, and while they were not freaking out about them being in space, they were actually enjoying live up there.

 

But on their third day up there disaster struck, they started to lose air so they decided to jump out of there house and attempt to land on earth us and they did. When the coopers landed the house follow with them landing on the same spot it was before. So the coopers quickly packed their bags and moved back to California and learned a very valuable lesson, to always listen to warnings when it could affect your life.

 

          

 

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, The Seven Chairs, Writing

The Seven Chairs by Yanci

            The Seven Chairs

 

It all started one day when the seventh chair landed in France. Their was a nun flying in the air or levitating. The  ministers saw it and they creeped out because they have never ever seen such a weird and scary thing……

 

The sixth chair landed at Australia it landed at a pool, everyone was scared because they’ve never seen that happening while it appears.They said that it looked like some magic dust or something appearing in the distance and the people that were right next to them freaked out.

 

Thump Thump Thump went the nun sitting in the fifth chair that landed at Houston,TX hitting the door, the owners didn’t know who was hitting the door.The owners opened it was a nun just sitting there standing right in their face. Ahhhhhh went the owner “who are you they said ” said ”I’m Evelyn”……..

 

Then the fourth chair landed in Canada it landed close to the Niagara  Falls it lt landed like 3 or 4 feet close to the water.There was a lot of tourist right then and there everybody just saw it in the middle of nowhere but their was nothing on it! .KABOOM KABOOM. AHHHHH AHHHHHH went all the people something really bad was happening………………….

 

The third chair landed in the middle of nowhere in Empty Quarter,Saudia Arabia it was just full of sand red beautiful sand nothing living. Nothing alive not even 1 single plant or animal nothing nothing nothing at all no water absolutely nothing but the one and only chair of wisdom was just sitting there.
The second chair and the first chair nobody in the world ever knew where it was or if it had anything in it the only person that did know died as soon as he saw it people say he got blind and then someone or something killed him all he felt was a hard stab and he e died or perished………..

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, Uninvited Guests, Writing

Uninvited Guest by Jasmine

There once was a girl named Lily. She was 18 years old. Lily had medium blond hair, who wearing a furry dark grey coat with a black long-sleeve shirt underneath her coat and  blue skinny jeans. Her eye color was icy blue, the color of icy water.  Lily likes to drink vanilla milkshakes: with cherry on top!

 

Lily died because of a demon. Let me tell you how it happened. It was March 3,2o16. Lily was in her bedroom texting her friends (Olivia, Alexis, and Lacey.). Until her mom told her to do her chores. Lily refused to do it.

“Lily! DO YOUR CHORES NOW!!!”Lily’s mom yelled .

“NEVER!”  Lily replied, yelling back. They kept yelling at each other until …

“Fine, I will do my chores.” Lily said, calmly.

“Thank you, Lily.” Replied Lily’s Mom. “I’m going out. When I get back, you’re chores should be done.”

Lily’s list of chores are:

  • clean her room
  • clean the bathroom
  • clean mom’s room
  • clean mom’s bathroom
  • clean living room
  • clean kitchen
  • cook  food
  • laundry

 

Lily was done with cleaning her room and it took her 3 hours just to do her room. Lily was tired of doing chores.  Lily took a nap by the time her mother came back . She saw Lily taking a nap.

“Lily! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TAKING A NAP?!”Lily’s Mom screamed.

“I was sleepy and tired of  doing chores.”Replied Lily.

“Deal with it, Lily.” Lily’s mom said, in a rude tone.

 

Lily went to go clean the living room. After cleaning the living room, she took a one hour break . She went to do the last chore, which was to do the laundry but the washer and dryer was in the basement. Lily thought that the basement was creepy. So instead of going to the basement, Lily put all of the dirty clothes under her bed . When Lily’s mom went upstairs to check on Lily.

“Lily? Did you do all the chores?” Asked Lily’s mom.

“Yes.”Lily lied .

 

Lily’s mom was surprised that everything was done. “Okay. Here, take $1,000 to buy something at the mall”. Remember: Buy something under $1,000 dollars.” Lily’s mom said, giving Lily $1,000. Lily was so happy that she lied to her mom for now on! After a few days Lily was caught red handed.  Lily’s mom told Lily that  she has to do chores for 4 weeks and give her the $ 1,000 dollars that she used to buy high heels and a dress.

 

Lily had  4 times the laundry Lily finally went down to the basement and when she was going down the basement she saw the knob turn and got scared  and  dropped the laundry on the basement floor and ran up stairs.

Lily went to go tell her mom that she saw the doorknob turn down stairs in the basement   Lily’s mom didn’t believe her.  Lily told her mom to go in the basement and see it for herself. Lily’s mom  went down stairs  and  she  saw nothing.  Lily’s mom said  “Lily just do the laundry, please.”

 

Lily went down stairs. Her heart was pounding.  She was sure she seen the doorknob  turn .when Lily was  going to find out what was in the little room and when she opened the door she saw a demon and the demon saw her.  The demon went into Lily.  
When the demon was controlling Lily he made Lily kill her mother. Then Lily killed her father  and her brother and sister lily killed most of  the people in the town. The most people in the town  were scared.  Until Lily finally got the demon out of her body.  Lily trapped  the demon in magical box. Lily  called some angels and she told them about the demon so they came  to find the demon  and they did.  The angels took the demon and  put him in jail  forever and everyone that died are alive again and they never seen the demon again.

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Narrative, Uninvited Guests, Writing

Uninvited Guest BY: Jeremiah

First day  the  Khan’s family  moved Raiyan was sigh little boy on first day of  4th grade  his first friend was  Stefan E. Rich  suddenly  they been best friends suddenly Andresses  Smith came all became the best of friends.

Suddenly one day he heard  a loud noise suddenly it got louder spoken louder suddenly  it stop Raiyan went back to sleep suddenly  it did it repeatedly  little boy.

Raiyan didn’t know what to do so he went down open the door  after his mom spoken dad told him not to.

Open the door but he opened it any way came out he didn’t know will happen so he just closed the door suddenly suddenly  he turned.  

Around spoken saw  some glowing lights so ran spoken closed the basement door spoken ran upstairs to his mom spoken dad’s room told him that him saw some red lights.

They  didn’t believe him so he went into his room went spoken  tired  to go to sleep but he couldn’t so he went down stairs.Uninvited Guests 

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Spoken  got some warm milk he turned around spoken that demon was there he was screaming  so loud  spoken  house he lives in pink blue cylinders are red door wood.

He spoken it’s day spoken  went back down stairs scared ran up the steps spoken closed the basement door ran straight  outside told.

Andreeses spoken  Stefan that he has a demon in his house so they went his to find out if he has a demon or not in his house so they went down stairs to.

the basement spoken  Andreeses spoken Stefan went spoken  saw the red lights zoomed up the steps spoken out the door.

“Andreeses said what is going on in your house I don’t know man don’t know ”  

“ Stefan said the double    thing”

Suddenly I came they told me that  a new kid named Raiyan that I thought they was trying get to away from me.

Jeremiah , Andreeses , spoken  Stefan ask how old are you Raiyan said I am 12 years old suddenly they said I am 12 years old to suddenly  he.

Said no way suddenly they  went to Raiyan”s house spoken  sat on there sitter’ s spoken  talked about school spoken  suddenly Andreeses.

Said hey guys here comes the new girl her name is Nyima Tucker spoken her friend to her name is Jasmine spoken  her other spoken  friend spoken her name was Lisset spoken Leandra.

Spoken  we was all the double  age. So Jeremiah asked all of the  girls if they wanted to come over his they yes so came on in to Jeremiah’s house.  

 

Suddenly his dad’s heart was pounding. He suddenly  he went down stairs spoken turned seen what he never seen before suddenly  the doorknob turned something popped out he was scared to death.

Suddenly Raiyan Khan said I want your soul his parents didn’t know so they trapped him in the basement his parents went spoken got the church pastor to get the devil out his life.

“ the Church Pastor to put god in his life spoken  get the devil out so he won’t have go to  another school spoke  specially a private school spoken me  spoken his dad isn’t going to pay for that so Church Pastor”.

Please get the devil out of him so he go to school because he is about to be late to school suddenly  the Church Pastor spoken this well take like a few minutes or 12 hours.

Will Raiyan be done bye 9:00 or 10:00 at least because he is about be late how many times do I have to say it you spoken 12 hours and been like 12 minutes now he is late because off you this his first time missing school.

 

Harris Burdick, Inquiry project, Just Desert, Writing

Just Desert by Paola


Rachel used to live on the streets of  Tokyo, Japan with the wind whistling and orange, red, and yellow leaves flying along. But now, she lives in a house with friends, or should I call it…”Family”. 3 years ago, Rachel was buried in a town that was deep buried for centuries. A japanese lady went digging up dirt (Her favorite hobby) until she found Rachel, sleeping in the soil. First the lady screamed, suddenly she started to hit Rachel with a shovel (Das gonna hurt; It woke up Rachel). Rachel started to scream and cry because of the pain. Then the lady started to scream again, after 3 minutes the lady started to talk with Rachel. Rachel told the lady that she was a neko/human, the lady could easily tell since she could see cat ears on the top of her head and a cat tail.

Rachel has red hair with orange specks. She was wearing a rainbow shirt and violet cowgirl shorts. She has no shoes on (basically barefooted.) and she looked frightened(FROM ALL THAT HITTING OF THE SHOVEL!).

The lady decided to give her a home, and a Fairytale (Musque De Provence) pumpkin to eat.

“Umm…Thank you?” said Rachel, holding the gorgeous deep mahogany pumpkin.

“You’re welcome.” replied the lady.

Now…

Rachel stared at her bedroom door, lying down on the neon pink bed, a bit cold but hungry.

“I think I shall make some pumpkin pie…” Rachel thought. “I’m going to get the kitchen knife.”

It was midnight, and Rachel just came back home to get the materials for pumpkin pie.

“Okay…The recipe says: Cut the pumpkin into 16 pieces.” said Rachel, reading the pumpkin pie recipe.

She began lowering the knife, and the pumpkin began glowing. Rachel became nervous, but very curious. “I want to know what happens. I don’t care if it’s good or bad, I NEED TO KNOW.” thought Rachel.

She lowered the knife, and it grew even brighter. The knife almost touched the “Fairytale” pumpkin, and it was BLINDING Rachel’s eyes. The pumpkin grew bigger, and opened up a martian green colored portal… which, sucked up Rachel into a different dimension.

Rachel woke up and found herself in a abandoned pumpkin patch. “Ugh… W-where…am…I?” Murmured Rachel, shaking her head due to dizziness. It took a while for Rachel to become normal. But the first second she stopping being dizzy, she wasn’t in her house. “Where am I? And why is this pumpkin here with me?” Rachel said, staring at the pumpkin lying down at her feet. Rachel then picked up the pumpkin and started walking to a town as busy as Tokyo, Japan. Rachel keep walking, exploring the orange houses and stores until she bumped into a huge-floating-talkative pumpkin pie. “Hey! Watch it, kid!” It said, y
elling at Rachel for not looking where she was going. “Ya need to look where ya going.”  

“I’m sorry…um…” Said Rachel, confused. Rachel then asked “Who are you?”

“The name’s DA PUMPKIN PIE. I’m a talking pumpkin pie. And you?”

“I’m Rachel. Nice to meet you!”

“Same here. Now, lemme give you 1 warning here…”

“Huh? What warning?”

“The mayor, He controls the environment. Didn’t you saw the faces of our race?”

Rachel stared at a girl’s face. She was sad, but why is she sad when she’s supposed to be…well…happy?

“Ohhh…I see. I will try and stop him…or her…uh, what gender is the mayor?” said Rachel.

“Male.” Replied the pumpkin pie.

“Then I will stop him!”

“Okay. I’ll help you.”

Rachel and the Pumpkin Pie started walking to the orange house. It is like the white house but it is the color orange and is shaped of the pumpkin carriage from Cinderella and that’s all.

“Wow…That looks like the white house…” Gasped Rachel, gazing at the Orange House.

“Look here…” Said the pumpkin pie.

“Huh?”

“It says: Welcome to the Orange House!  This is where the Mayor lives.”

“Then we are here!”

“Hurry, anyone could catch us. Let’s go!”

Rachel and the Pumpkin Pie hurried to the Orange House, reaching for the Mayor’s office. They almost reached the office until both notice a maid, crying with 1 Neon pumpkin and 1 Orange Smoothie pumpkin.

“We should help her.” whispered Rachel.

“You’re right. This may be a sign that the Mayor’s actions are…dangerous.” Replied the Pumpkin Pie.

Rachel and the Pumpkin Pie walked closer, but backed up 3 steps, since the maid might say “Go away…”

“Umm…*Ahem*” murmured Rachel, loud enough that the maid could hear her.

“Uhh…hello…”Said the maid, wiping her tears off. “ And how did you get here that fast? Visitors basically enter after taking the ‘Innocently Test.’”

“There was no guards out, I guess?”

“Ohh..I see. You must be Rachel.”

“How did you know my name? Just asking.”

“The mayor knows anything, and he was the one who dragged you into our world…”

Rachel and the maid kept talking, the maid told Rachel her name was Pumpie Kins.

“Please let this be over…I’m getting impatient.” thought the Pumpkin Pie.

10 minutes later… Pumpie opened the doors to the mayor’s office.

“Before you go in, I shall give you a warning: Nobody made it out of his office. They only go in there for death. Which, is why thousands disappear in our town every month. Be careful, now!” Warned Pumpie.

“Um…Thank you.” Replied Rachel, nervously.

The doors were now shut. Both Rachel and the Pumpkin Pie was walking cautiously, until… “Well, well, well, if it isn’t Rachel…With the delish pie…” A voice said.

“Who’s there?” Yelled Rachel, looking around the pitch black room, dripping with reds and mahoganys.

“I am the mayor, you must be here for you R.I.P. But don’t worry: One of us will survive. And that would be…Me.”

“No…I’m not here for that…”

“Then What? You must die! You are a disgrace to Both worlds: Tokyo and Pumpkinlandia!”

“WHAT?!”

The reason…was that when she was little, she messed up all the time! The worst of them all was that she blew up her own TOWN! Yup, you heard me: SHE BLEW UP HER OWN TOWN WITH TNT AND WORSE!!!

Calmly, Rachel said “No…that was someone el–” Rachel saw a sword, lying on the floor. She picks up the sword, hiding it behind her back.

“What’cha got there? Tell me or I will end you!” Screeched the Mayor. “You’re Hiding something! Show It or DIE!!!”

“Sure, just close your eyes…and–” Rachel said in a creepy tone.

STAB! That was the end of the mayor…for LIFE. A portal opened up, and sucked Rachel up. Luckily, she managed to grab the tip of the portal.

“Where are you going? Where will that portal take you?!” Yelled the Pumpkin Pie.

“Home!” Replied Rachel, loudly. Rachel then lost her grip, screaming “AHH!”.

Rachel fell down on the floor of her home, and right before the portal closes, her 2 friends (Pumpkin Pie and Pumpie) jumped through the portal. The 3 pumpkins: Orange Smoothie, FairyTale, and Neon came too.

“Huh? How are you here?” Said Rachel, shocked that the Pumpkin Pie and Pumpie are standing on the living room floor.

“We managed to jump in.” Replied Pumpie.

Rachel noticed the pumpkins. She had forgotten the pumpkin pie recipe all this time.

“Hand me those pumpkins. I’ll be right back with something better.” Ordered Rachel.

Rachel read the list again:

 

  1. Cut your pumpkin in 16 pieces.
  2. Blend ½ of the pieces until it looks diced-up.
  3. Add cinnamon on the diced up pumpkin sauce.
  4. Add the sauce in your pan.
  5. Use the other ½ (1 piece of pumpkin shall remain.) of the pieces and put on top of pumpkin filling.
  6. Use Pie base and stack it on top of filling
  7. Get last piece of pumpkin and put it on top for decoration.
  8. Put it in the oven up to 350°F, place pumpkin pie and wait 1 hour and 30 minutes. (If it is a microwave, put temperature for 400°F and wait 1 hour.)
  9. Check pie every 20 minutes until pie base looks bright golden.
  10. Cut up pie and enjoy!

 

Rachel has successfully made 3 pumpkin pies, each with its unique taste.

“I’m back!” Rachel called as she entered the living room, finding Pumpie and Pumpkin Pie sitting on the couch.

“Oh goodie! What is that?” Asked Pumpie, staring at the 3 pumpkin pies, sitting on top of Rachel’s arms.

“These…are delicious pies. Would you like to try one?” Explained Rachel, holding the pies.

“Yes, please!” Pumpie and Pumpkin pie replied.

For the rest of the morning (It was 6:30 am, don’t judge me.), they enjoyed delicious pumpkin pie…well, for breakfast.