Siobhan Kranz
Just my Luck [From a writing exercise given by Andy Griffiths] I was sitting at the kitchen table eating my cornflakes, as usual when I began to realize I was shrinking.
I didn't know what was happening. It crossed my mind that I was dying. Then suddenly, I heard this drooling sound. Just my luck. It was my baby brother. But from that angle, he didn't look like a baby.
Oh great! Just my luck. He had a dog with him. But I wasn't paying attention to that because my cornflakes were falling off the kitchen bench.
Next thing I know, I'm wearing a cornflake as a hat. Suddenly the dog picks me up and takes me to his drinking tray outside. He drops me in his water.
It took me over 5 minutes to climb out of the water tray. I had this feeling that I'm not going to make it to school that day. I sit down for a rest, exhausted from my unexpected adventure. But what I didn't know was that my adventure wasn't over.
Out of the blue this magpie swoops me up. Just my luck. Great! I'm on my way to being magpie meat while I should be at school. I never thought I'd say this … but I'd rather be at school!
I struggled and struggled until it dropped me. I sigh with relief as I'm dropped onto a furry leaf. I lie down until I feel an antennae on my face. "Aaa-a-a-a-aa," I scream. A giant stinkbug! So that's what the smell was!
Oh yuck! What was I going to do? That smell was horrible.
Then, I woke up! Now I know what the smell from the stinkbug was!
I will leave it with you to figure it out!
Andrew Bart, Kimberley Birt, Monique Cannell, Becky Christopherson, Emma Craggs, Hollie Crowley, Jennifer Eustace, Rebecca Evans, Alicia Eyres, Kieran Goulter, Mary Huntress, Robert Illingworth, Katie Kilpatrick, Siobhan Kranz, Kate Norsgaard, Samantha Ong, James Ramsey, Nathan Rieck, Ben Sielaff, Aleisha Sutton, Ruth Thomson, Michael Ward, Alex Wells, Jessica Weston, Kathleen Williams
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