Migration Story Submission 

Original Story

The Boy Who Wanted a Friend

by William, age 11, Montana

Once upon a time in a fabulous town called vendingville which was a town full of vending machines a boy named Jordan got tired of not having any friends because there were so many vending machines in vendingville that there were only 3 humans in the town those people were Jordan, his mom, and his dad. And both his parents worked at the vending machine factory which was the only job in town. One day it was take your kid to work day at the factory and Jordan’s parents took him to work. Jordan’s parents showed him all around the factory and then one of the vending machines exploded and Jordan’s parents had to fix it so they let Jordan explore the building by himself so he walked all around the factory and then saw a vending machine with only one product inside it Jordan went over to the machine and looked at the product, it said “are you tired of not having any friends? Your sad times are over with the yellow colored thing that you eat! It will take you to a dimension where everything is made out of math textbooks and you will be tested by 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 challenges and if you pass every one of those challenges you will have a lot of friends to hang out with so buy now and have fun!” Jordan couldn’t believe his eyes! He bought it and ate it and then reality melted away and he was in a world of math textbooks and in front of him was a hot dog vendor and Jordan asked him “do you happen to know where the 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 challenges are? And the vendor replied “NO…would you like a hot dog?” “No thanks” Jordan replied and then he searched all over for the challenges and then he found them so he said “bring it on” 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, challenges later. Jordan emerged from all the challenges and then the hot dog vendor appeared and said “ congrats dude you will now have a lot of friends see ya!” Reality melted away and the hot dog vendor yelled”do you want a hot dog!” And then Jordan was back home and the vending machine had tons of hot dogs in it. Jordan was confused but he made his way back to his parents who had just finished fixing the machine and when they saw Jordan they screamed because Jordan was now a vending machine so now he had tons of vending machine friends in vendingville the end

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