I don't really know how I got chosen to compete in the Ready Writing competition. Two other classmates competed with me, and another friend from another school.
The specific writing prompt is lost in my memory, but it was about finding a treasure chest in your back yard.
And I won first place!
Here is the winning entry from my nine-year-old self, copied word for word including any grammatical errors.
Treasure Chest
One day I was digging in the back yard, when suddenly I found a treasure chest. There was a not on the chest, and it said: The key to this chest is fifteen feet deeper than the chest.
So I started digging, but what I didn't know is that the key was one yard away from where I was digging. I didn't find the key.
So I went into the house to get a fingernail file. I got the fingernail file, then I went back to the chest.
I got the chest open. I had to dig through six inches of mud. I thought whatever was in there was going to be muddy. But when I got finished digging through the mud I to dig through three inches of loose sand.
I got through the loose sand. Finally I got down to see what was in it. They sparkled in the bright sunlight, and they were reds, blues, and greens.
They were Rubies, Garnets, Saphhires, Peridots, and Emralds. I went to see if they were real or not, if there were I was going to make jewlry out of them. If they weren't I would just keep them as gifts from the treasure chest.
I finally found out that the Emralds were fake. But the Rubies, Garnets, Saphhires, and Peridots were real.
The man said I would have to give 1/8 of it to the goverment. I didn't want to do it, but I had to.
Then I found out that I didn't have to give them the fake Emralds. But I wish I had to. I did not want to keep those Emralds.
Then I finally found out that I had more of it than the goverment did.
And that won first place! Even with all those spelling errors. Yeesh, those errors are embarrassing, but at least I can justify it by saying I was only nine.
What do you think of the story?
2 comments:
even in your stories, your nine-year-old self is pissed off at the government. awesome.
And the really sad part is that I don't mind paying taxes as long as it doesn't run into the thousands! Honestly, I think my fourth-grade social studies teacher must have told us that if you found money or valuables that "weren't anyone's" then you would owe money in taxes or something. I truly have no idea where that came from.
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