August 18, 2001
Fiction, by Cimeron, age 12
One day there was a girl named Sally. She loved to read books, especially fairy tales. One day her mom gave her a book and it was called Animal Fairy Tale Playhouse. Sally said, “Wow! Thanks!” So she read it and it was nice, then she remembered the book’s beginning said: “If you laugh more than five times the book will turn real.”
Sally read for a little then forgot the warning and started laughing (more than five times) and poof! She suddenly felt weird and thought “This place looks a lot like the picture.” And she thought, “This IS the picture!” It was true, but the place looked nice. It had rainbows and flowers and What!? Dogs that talk and walk.
Then the dog said: “If you have food we will let you out so she searched her pockets and she found a dog biscuit and gave it to him. He showed her a pink door and let her go.
The End.
Spanish Galleon, by Aaron Martin.
Aretha checks the weather.
August 16, 2001
Our cat, Sabrina, is missing.
Have you seen her lately?
Please let us know if you have!
She was wearing a red collar.
We miss her terribly!
This picture was taken of her being examined at the spay/neuter clinic the same day she disappeared.
Follow-Up Story:
Our cat, Sabrina, has returned!
She came back on Monday, September 3 in the evening after having been missing for 24 days. She was found emitting unusually loud meowing sounds on the front porch and we were all overjoyed to see her.
Sabrina had lost a lot of weight, and came back to us emaciated and starving. She was delighted to wolf down an entire can of cat food in our kitchen, and then slept for most of the next two days.
She couldn’t tell us where she had been, but she was able to tell us how happy she was to see us again. Her tolerance for affection from humans has increased noticably.
Our thanks to all who supported us during our time of missing her, and to those who helped to look for her.
