Cora was asleep, they all were. But Cora was in the deepest sleep, nothing could wake her, not even a fire. She dreamt of the fire, the way the smoke curled inside her lungs. The screeching fire alarms sounded like finger nails on a chalkboard. The stinging pain of the fire seemed almost real, to bad it was. In fact it seemed to real to the point where she realized it was. She tried to escape her dream, but she couldn’t. She could escape the fire in her dream, but her body wouldn’t move. She was stuck, no way to escape the fire. No one could here her scream. No one knew were she was. She had no way to survive.

We watched the moving colors of thing the humans call TV. Alex looked at her magic box. The magic box that held peoples faces. They could talk to me, I could see them. She continued to look at her magic box. She stood up and said something. I could not understand her, after all I am only a puppy. I knew only a few words like my name. Bear. And my brother’s name. Oreo. One day he left and never came back. Back then he was the only other dog in the house. Now nobody New comes by, no other dogs, nobody. Granny comes occasionally. But no one else. I also know the names of my humans. Alex is the youngest Helen is the oldest. Mom and dad are their parents. But I think they think of me as their daughter. I also now granny’s name. She is Alex and Helen’s grandma. She gives me treats every time I see her. I like her. Anyway, I may not have known what she said, but her tone of voice was excited so that made me happy. But then I Heard Something I understood. “He’s perfect” suddenly a wave of memories that I had forced myself to forget flushed over me. I was laying next do a little puppy. I was as old as him. We were very little then. He was sleeping, but I had been woken up by a door opening. Who was this dog? Then I remembered that too. He was my brother. My birth brother, not Oreo. Oreo was much older than me. Someone picked him up and said, “he’s perfect” after that I never saw him again. Then I was pulled out of my memories and back into the real world. Perfect means we are getting rid of. Who are they getting rid of? Why? Dad. He was the only boy in the family. Wait, no. What about fluff. I forgot to mention him earlier. He was the family cat. But why would they get rid of either of them? For the rest of the day I was sad. Several weeks later they brought back another dog but neither dad or fluff had left. So if perfect didn’t mean what I thought it meant what did it mean? Oh well. I’m just a puppy. Humans are confusing. Seeing the puppy for the first time made me remember when I first came home. And Oreo peed on my cage. I told the new puppy and we laughed. I new we were going to be best friends.

“When are you going to tell Jack you like him?” Asked Megan. “Megan” Alie said in an embarrassed voice. “What?” Said Megan. “You gotta tell him you like him sometime” she said with a smile. “Well when are you going to tell Samuelson you like him?” Said Alie. “Ok I’ll make you a deal” said Megan. “I tell Sam I like him, if you tell Adam you like him” “Ok” said Alie. That night she grabbed a pencil and a pad of paper and started to to right a note to Jack. Finally, after many crumpled pieces of paper, she had the perfect note to give to jack. The next day in home room Alie passed the note to jack. He smiled at her and put the note in his back pack and turned back to the teacher. When the bell rang to switch classes, Alie saw the note fall out of jack’s back pack. She picked it up and held it to her chest. She had to think of another way. Then she remembered something. This wasn’t her first crush, in middle school she had a crush on Tomithen greyhound. She sent him a poem in the mail! If it worked for him then it might work for Jack! So she wrote him the perfect poem, signed her name, and sent the poem. A few weeks later, she got an email saying that “the letter could not reach its destination”. “Why not!?!?” She screamed into her phone. She laidback in her chair and sat her phone on her chest with her hands covering it. “Why is this not working” she thought. And then she had an idea. “Hey” said Jack. Alie turned around to see his blond hair and deep blue eyes and soft peach colored skin. Alie had dark brown skin, chocolate colored eyes and hair. “So” he said. “Is the roomer true?” He asked. “It can be” she reapplied. Let’s rewind a bit shall we? Alie wrote in the school news paper that there was a roomer that Alie liked Jack. So now that your caught up back to the story. “Well then would you like a dance?” He asked. By the way this was happening at the spring dance. “I would love that” she said. Eventually they got married and had to children (twins to be exact) Clair and Maggie. The End

If only she knew. I hate her so. Oh this is new. She calls me her freind. Do I call her that back? No. No I don’t. We learned a new word today. Smug. Would I describe her as smug? Yes. Yes I would. Cathy, o’ dear Cathy. You think there is nothing not to like about you. You’re wrong. You bully Gracie. You have anger issues. It’s so bad I want to punch you. You don’t let me do anything. I hate you. I hate you. Your haircut is weird. Oh how I wish I never met you. Oh if only she knew.

l looked up. the warm light was so comforting. I heard Taney calling me. “NO! NNNNNOOOOOOO! don’t go into the light sister NO! NO!” She sobbed. But I didn’t listen. It was so warm, and nice, and wonderful. It welcomed me. Soon I was absorbed by the light. “Please sister NO!” I felt my mothers arms rap me up in a hug. As she pulled me deeper into the light, I saw, I saw, my body laying there limp, dead. Streams of blood dripped from my chest. And a bullet hole lay in the middle of my forehead. Not far away, a big grizzly bear lay dead. A gun lay beside Taney. Then it all came back to me. We were on a walk in the woods. We talked and laughed. Then, a big fat hungry grizzly attacked us. The grizzly scratched my chest. “Hold on Tara” said Taney. She looked around frantically. Finally she found a gun. She fired it. I felt a throbbing pain in my forehead. And then I collapsed. I heard another gunshot. I heard a loud roar, and then a loud thud. I saw my sister panting hard gun in hand. She dropped the gun and came running over to me. She lifted me up and sobbed into my chest. “No, no she sobbed. And then it all went dark. When I woke up from my memories I found myself in heaven in my mom’s arms sobbing.

As jack and rose floated off on the door jack leaned in for a kiss with rose. It was a slow, long kiss. “Rose” he said. “I’m so happy-“ Rose threw Jack off the door. “What the heck” said jack. “I don’t care about YOU, I want Cal Hockley” said Rose. “Well I Don’t think you can have him” said jack. “why not?” Asked Rose. “because he’s frozen solid” said jack. “How would you know that?” Said Rose. “ because he’s floating right in front of us!” Said jack. “Oh, well whatever” she ties the hope diamond around jack’s neck. “ I hope it gives you as much luck as it gave me” she said. Then she Kicked him in the face and paddled away. The End

One day a long time ago a ferret with wings was falling off a cliff while being attacked by a dragon. Wait wait wait,that’s not how it started! You see our story begins with me. “Mom!” I said. “Time for breakfast!” “Coming coming!” My mom replied. “I’ve got a surprise for you!” She said. “Come on!” She grabbed My hand and practically dragged me to the door. “Mom, mom, MOM!” I said. She stopped dragging me and said “what!” “Breakfast” I replied. “Oh!” She gasped. She scooped up her eggs, scarfed down her toast, and chomped down her bacon. “Ok let’s go!” She said. Just as I scooped up my last bit of egg, she grabbed my hand and dragged me out the door and into the car. The next thing I knew, I was inside a pet store holding a ferret. At first I froze, and then I freaked out! You see I LOVE FERRETS!!!! It had two beautiful wings, sparkling water blue eyes, and slick white fur. And little did I know, an ancient awakens when a winged ferret is born, and this one, it was born yesterday. By the time I got home though, I already knew. Though you probably want to hear the story don’t you? So hear is what happened. We pulled out of the parking lot and onto the highway. “I’m gonna name her wing” I said cheerfully. “That’s a lovely name” said my mom. I smiled and bounced a bit. You see I never had a pet before, more or less a ferret! Plus, I was 8. I was admiring the beautiful ferret when suddenly some giant, thing, picked up our car and through it off a cliff me and mom just barely made it out alive! We climbed off the edge of the cliff that we were hanging from. I thanked the holly world for letting me live. And then I realized, wing was still in the car. “WING!!!!” I cried. I watched as the car plummeted to the ground. “wing” I whispered. I began to cry. My mother held me in her comforting arms. I looked down at the destruction, and, I saw, I saw it explode. “wing” I whispered in a shaky voice. I began to cry harder. Finally, I stood up. I looked down, I saw a wight thing bob around above the wreckage. And then a hopeful thought came across my mind. “Wing?” I said “mom I think it’s wing” I continued. “It can’t be” said my mom. But when I looked down to make sure, the dragon (that was apparently the thing that destroyed our car) Pushed me off the cliff! But I didn’t Exactly reach the bottom. Turns out it WAS wing, and wing, she saved my life! What happened next made me realize I didn’t pay attention in history class very well, even though it was my favorite class. when a human and a ferret love each other the human gets wings too!

It is a dark stormy night. A man leaned against a wall. He was like a shadow. I walked down the alley. When I stopped I saw that he had followed me. I ran and he followed me. He caught up with me. He threw me down. I struggled. He pined me. I kicked him in the Stomach. I ran away. He stood there and stared at me. I ran into my apartment and Hid.