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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

 

Mrs. Linden’s Library

“I would like to check-out the Plant Mystery please’’, she said as she was grabbing her library card

“Oh, you don’t want that book sweetheart”, and grabbed it from her

“Why not?”

“It’s just the people who check out the book never come back”harris book plant

“Then how do you get the book back?”

“We buy them every year”

“Whatever!” She grabbed the book back from her.

Then Holly vanished. She waited and waited then finally a new librarian came, she ran up to the desk.

“May I check out this book please?” as she once again took out her library card.

“Sure honey.’’

“Thank you, bye.”

“Bye.”

As Holly walked away the first librarian said she had warned her about the book.  Now it’s too late.

She walked home.  She found her dad in the laundry room.

“Hi dad, look at my book.”

“The Plant Mystery, that’s a really good title.” he said.

“Oh, here are your pajamas” he said while handing me my purple pajamas.

“Thanks.”

She ran up to her room and put on her favorite pajamas.  She grabbed her book and started to read it. One hour later she fell asleep with the book open. That is when it started to grow.

Two hours later her dad came in and saw the plant all over the room.

Then he yelled, “Holly, Holly!”

She woke up and saw her dad.

“What is this? HELP ME! HELP ME!” She screamed

Her dad ran down stairs and grabbed the scissors. Her dad cut her free but then he got sucked into the plant.

“Dad, dad!” yelled Holly.

He and ran away. Was never seen again.

The very next day she returned the book and said the legend was a lie