Just Add a Speck of Magic
Kyurin Kim Age 9
The Lucky Nut There was a planet where only dogs lived. They could stand on their feet and speak English. They did everything that humans could do on Earth. There lived Sammy whose fur was all white, including her face. She had a lovely red bow on her head beside her left ear. She always wore a tutu. One day, she got a fortune cookie, and she cracked it in half. There was a nut instead of the paper! “What?” she said. “What is my fortune? I don’t want to eat a nut! I will just put it in my room.” One day, she went rollerblading, and she brought the nut to eat when she got hungry. She started to rollerblade. Thirty minutes later, Sammy almost bumped into a tree. But instead of crashing, she went backward to a safer place! At that moment, she found out that she had a great secret: she had a lucky nut. After that day, she always brought the lucky nut whenever she went. She had it when she went to school, to the park, or to the playground. Before she went to sleep, she always put the nut on the little drawer that was right next to Sammy’s bed. But one day, when she woke up, the lucky nut was gone! She looked everywhere in her bedroom. She looked in her closet, in her drawer, and even inside her clothing, but she had no luck. When she went to school, there was so much bad luck! Her shoe laces got tangled, and she spilled paint on her T-shirt. To solve her problem, she needed help from others. She had to tell her secret to her friends! “Hey! Today, I need help from you guys. Also, I have to tell you my secret!” said Sammy. Sammy told her secret and what had happened to her lucky nut. So, her friends and Sammy made a plan together.
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