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Intermediate Stories
I have a cat named Glumpf. He acts like a dog.
He follows us down to the bus stop and waits for
the bus and then he goes home again. One
morning Glumpf was following us down to the
bus stop and a St. Bernard tried to stop him.
Glumpf jumped on the dog’s back. The dog went
away howling. Glumpf then continued to follow
us.
Douglas Brandon, Intermediate I
Lost! Once I waslost in the woods. It was a
windy night. Then all of a sudden rain was
coming down. Everysecond it was raining harder
and harder. Then it happened! A hurricane hit. It
was horrible. I couldn’t stand on the ground. Then
I saw a light. I somehow managed to get to the
light. I opened the door. It was my home. I was
safe!
Barbara Ayers, Intermediate I
The wind whistles through the trees and over
the plains and fields and ’round the house at
night. The wind hardly ever stops. In a hurricane
it blows the trees down. But sometimes the wind is
warm and friendly.
Beverly Lawrence, Intermediate I
I had just brought home my groceries. I had to
go out again and I left my ten year old son home
with my two year old daughter. Two boys came to
my house and asked my older son if he could play
and he said, “Yes.” He left. My daughter walked
into the kitchen and went into my groceries. All of
a sudden the bag fell. We had egg salad from wall
to wall.
Elizabeth Hagan, Intermediate I
There was a dragon and he was named Puff. He
had played with me ever since I was a little boy.
We went down to the sea and swam. One day I
went to play with him but he was not there. So I
went home and I never saw him again.
Chris Emery, Intermediate I
I am Paul Bunyan’s sister. I am a billion, one
hundred twelve feet taller than he. I live in Brazil
on the Amazon River. This is a story about how
the Amazon River was formed. For Christmas the
natives gave me one hundred eleven million, one
hundred eleven thousand pieces of wood in the
form of a diving board. One day I was going to
dive off the board. My brother’s Great Blue Ox
knocked me over! That’s how the Amazon River
was formed.
Daphne Minton, Intermediate I
Santa Claus
Santa Claus is very weird.
On Christmas Day he wears a beard.
At other times he*s clean-shaven,
And doesn’t ask am I behavin’.
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He is very fat,
Wears a red hat,
Zooms down chimneys
Too small for a cat.
But all together it’s very pleasant
To wake Christmas morning and get lots of
presents.
Gigi O’Melia
Intermediate I
A TRIP INTO SPACE
Jack and I were at the space center on July 8,
2001. We were going to be the first men on Mars.
It was ten seconds before blast-off. We were in a
500-foot rocket with a billion foot thrust. It should
go about three-fourths as fast as light. Before I
could say Ouch we were on our way.
Some time later, after we were frozen, we awoke
and could see Mars, we thought. But Jim, our
captain said that our electric date calendar said
our year was March 8, 4029. We all thought the
calendar was broken but it wasn’t broken at all.
We had just gone through time.
John duPont
Intermediate I
A TALL TALE
Once there was an ant that grew to be 300 feet
long and 150 feet wide. The ant lived in the water.
This was a little too unusual for an ant. Every day
the ant would come out of the water and pick
flowers for old ladies. For an ant that size, you
would think it would be mean and wreck cities
like New York.
Every day the ant would come and pick flowers
for old ladies and dance around in the wheat
fields. Except for one day. No one will ever knovy
why the ant never came out of the water.
Dwight Scholl
Intermediate I
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN
On the night before Christmas I took an
airplane to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus!
When I got there, Santa showed me his reindeer
and factories that make toys, and elves that
worked in them. Then we sat down to talk
business. Santa was having trouble with the
Abominable Snowman! Four men and I had to
kill him!
Next morning we set out in a helicopter. It
scared the Abominable Snowman into a crevasse
and he never was seen again. But the noise was so
great that it caused an avalanche! And a big piece
of ice hit our roto-wing. The helicopter plunged
toward the ground! I was the only survivor from
the crash.
Alfred Levitt