Chester Elementary School celebrates its young writers

The following are sample stories from the Young Writers in the fifth grade from Chester Elementary School:

The Secret Shed

By Jared Malivert

My friends and I were playing tag in the dark.

I figured the best spot to hide was the woods.

It started to get late. My friends started to go home. I was all alone and lost in the woods.

I saw a shed up ahead. I walked inside it. My foot touched the shed as it started to rock back and forth. When I looked out the little window, there was no window. I was in the air!

It was a wizard who I was captured by. Carelessly we fell into a stream and drowned together.

100 years later.....

Don’t trust the gnomes

By Nicholas Keegan

One day, Albert was walking in a forest . . . a strange, forest. There have been reports of missing people from that forest. One person escaped, but had Amnesia.

Albert ran to the place where that happened ... he heard rustling in a bush.

Out came five, creepy, gnomes. They hopped on a tree stump and disappeared.

Albert hopped on and he went to this strange world. He saw the gnomes run into a crack in a boulder, the size of a giant.

He went in too. It was dark.

Suddenly, a gnome jumped on him and he was NEVER seen again.

The Three Horned Beast

By Mahki Phillips

I finally got to relax after a long day of hiking.

All of a sudden I felt a vibration under me as if a earthquake was happening.

I jumped out of my tent to see what was going on. As I looked up a huge beast with three horns was running toward me with his horns extinguishing fire.

It was so dark it was like looking into a black mirror.

Although my legs felt like pins and needles, I bolted toward the beast and pushed him into a swamp.

The swamp had an appetite and ate him for dinner.