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Broken Down Spaceship Diary
by Ally, age 13, Kansas
I bought a spaceship earlier, and my experience was so crazy that I decided that I had to write it down. It all started when my friend and I decided to buy a spaceship. We didn’t have a lot of money so we decided to go to a used spaceship dealer, our first mistake. He took us to the lot and absentmindedly set his hand on the hood. Smoke almost immediately started billowing out out of it. The dealer didn’t look very shocked to our surprise. “Oh yeah,” he said, “don’t touch the hood and you’ll be fine.” Our second mistake was continuing the tour after this.
He then took us inside the cockpit and showed us around. It actually looked pretty nice, so nice that we didn’t even notice that he didn’t touch the dashboard a single time. He showed us around the rest of the spaceship and told us the price. This is where we made our final mistake. We bought the spaceship. Looking back, that was a really stupid decision, but at the time it seemed like a good idea. Let me explain. I had promised to visit my parents (who live on another planet) so I felt pressured into buying it, plus, it was really cheap.
We payed, the dealer handed us the keys, and we both sat down in the cockpit. We had both packed our bags and were ready to set off almost immediately after buying it. The trip was going pretty well, until my friend made the mistake of touching the dashboard. Immediately everything went haywire, the gauges were spinning out of control, all of the monitors started blinking like crazy, and the top of the dashboard popped off! My friend and I stood shell shocked for a few moments before springing into action.
I was piloting the ship so I immediately set it to autopilot and thought about my options. I remembered that the dealer said something about an instruction manual that we could use if anything on the ship broke. He said it was in the supply closet so I sprinted over there as fast as I could. I came in and was utterly confused, glitter glue, duct tape, and seemingly every tool in the galaxy filled the shelves. Ignoring the oddity of this place, I found the instruction manual and sprinted back to the cockpit where my friend was still waiting for me. I handed it to her and she found the page on the dashboard. She read it and sighed, I asked her what was wrong, she told me that it told her to hit it five times with a hammer and then fix it with duct tape. I realized that was why the utility closet had shelves upon shelves of duct tape and tools.
My friend and I decided it wouldn’t hurt to try, so we got the hammer and duct tape. We tried it and it worked! The trip was going fairly smoothly, as long as we didn’t touch the hood… or the dashboard… or anything else. Suddenly, an alarm sounded! I felt like I was going to jump out of my skin! What happened? Did an important system fail? A voice spoke up over the intercom, (robotic voice) “your toaster is broken.” I was not sure wether to cry tears of happiness or punch the intercom. I had nothing better to do since the ship on autopilot, so I decided to fix the toaster. I walked into the kitchen and found the toaster. Reading the manual caused me to have another revelation. it said to hit it 7 times with a wrench then fix it with glitter glue and duct tape. I guess that’s why there were shelves full of glitter glue in the utility closet. I did what the manual told me to do and it worked.
I returned to the cockpit and sat down. I realized there was something imbedded in the dashboard and turned it on. It spoke up, (robotic voice) “hello, I am rainforest sound vibration, how may I assist you?” The name reminded me of a certain device, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It spoke up again, “I have a variety of functions, including: trivia, playing music, answering questions, and gps services.” My friend and I decided to see what its default music playlist was. That was a mistake we would never make again. I will now list the songs it proceeded to play: baby dolphin, all I want for Easter is you, and 99 cans of milk on the wall. It was a rough trip, every few hours something would break down, but we made it to my parents in the end. And we made it back relatively safely. As of writing this I have not been able to get rid of it yet, so who knows what kind of adventures I will have on it later, but for now, bye.
Roll Call Stories
Dragon Flowercracker
by Caius, age 4, Germany
The Dragon Flowercracker:
Once upon a time, there was a dragon who ate flowers and crackers.
And this dragon breathed FLOWERCRACKERS!
Then we called the firefighters.
When they sprayed water, the flowers grew bigger and bigger!
The End.
Caius
Gollap the Talking Tree
by Elizabeth, age 7, Oregon
Ring ring. Ring ring. Hi, Gollap's Talking Tree Air Conditioning Repair Company, how can I help you?
Customer: Hi, is this Gollap's Talking Tree Air Conditioning Repair Company?
Gollap: Yes it is. How can I help you?
C: My air conditioning thing is broken. What do I do?
G: Fix it.
C; Okay, I know how to do that.
G: Good.
C: Bye.
G; Bye.
G: Okay, time for a snack. Let's see what do I have today? Mmm, mmm, mmm. A bright red car, my favorite!
Crunch Crunch!!!
The end.
Where Did All The Green Koalas Go?
by Ian, age 8, Massachusetts
Green koalas eat limes and turn green from eating them. Their favorite thing to do is hug watermelons. They live in groups, and the best one is named Lemon. Lemon is the best because he is the funniest. Like one time he swallowed a watermelon whole. He got so full that he exploded and shot up to the moon. He was ok. At first, he was alone, but then saw all his friends because they all swallowed watermelons and shot up to the moon just like him. Then they all saw that there were even more limes on the moon than on Earth. They started to eat all of them, and they planted trees. Lemon always climbed the moon trees and was very happy. He could still hug watermelons up there, but he didn't swallow them whole anymore. That's why we don't see green koalas on Earth anymore, and that's why green koalas are the best.
