The ukulele is sleek in my hands. The strings vibrate as I thrust them with my thumb. Then, the process commences, ideas rush through my head like a storm cloud. The ideas zing out like lightning. They struck my thumbs, lighting them with a fire of adrenaline. Gradually, the ideas string themselves together; a […]
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The Sports Card Murder Mystery by Zackary Goldstein, gr. 6
Prologue: I’m Detective Mr. Potato Head Axolotl (I know, it is a very weird name) and I think solving mysteries is very fun. I live at 56 Foreign Road-Circle. I am about to tell you about my favorite mystery that will probably blow your mind. Thump! What was that? I leaped. I […]
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The tall, old tree towers over us. Its branches fan out overhead, protecting, filtering sunlight. Heads are bowed. Hands scribble furiously. Pencils scratch lightly. Soft murmurs break out among students. To our right, workers in their bright excavators rumble down the dark road. Disrupting. On the side of life, time flows, people pass […]
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I stroll down the ramp underneath the tower for the Atlantic Theater. The polished stone is hot to my touch. Fountains blast high into the sky. Eyes closed, I turn around in London, Luftwaffe planes blot out the sun. Bombs rain upon the banks of Thames. I stand before a curved wall, with […]
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Butterflies in my stomach, hands shaking like my phone when it vibrates, my head is swirling with thoughts that consume my mind: Did they do him justice? Is this going to make me think of him? Is this what he would’ve wanted? Saltwater clouds my senses as I walk in. The wind kisses me, […]
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