Mondays and Magic
Brooke Chesney Age 9
A Wondrous Adventure Bammm crash! It was a dark and stormy night, and the only thing you could see was the light of Darry the Dat’s glow in the dark underwear. Dats, if you may be wondering, don’t eat anything; they survive on only water. They have blue fur and slimy green eyes and a small yellow nose. He wore the underwear every night because he lived in the stomach of a whalecorn, and a whalecorn’s stomach is dark. A whalecorn is one hundred yards long and 10,000 yards tall! But this one looked too small. You might be thinking: how did he get there in the first place? Well, when he was young, he and his mother were walking along on a dock. It was his birthday, so his mom bought him glow in the dark underwear. Darry loved them. But then he got swallowed by a whalecorn. Darry shook himself to sleep, and he closed his eyes and dreamt of what it would be like out of the whalecorn . . . He dreamt of mountains made out of ice cream, and he imagined him taking a spoon full of it! He imagined lollipop stew, his favorite type of stew sizzling in a hot pot, and his mom and dad eating it next to him. Just then, he woke up to “Ahhhhh help!” What was that? Thought Darry. The wind was pounding on his face. “H . . . hello? “ said Darry. “My name is Penny, and I was walking along the coastline until woshh I got swallowed by . . .” said Penny. “A whalecorn,” said Darry. “So what are you doing down here anyway?” Penny said, looking around. “Well,” Darry started to think, “I don’t know how I got here to be honest!” “Well, we’re getting out of here, and I know how.” “How?” “Well, first we have to wait till the whalecorn goes up for air. Number two, we have to aim for the blowhole, and ta da we’re out of here!” “Oh um . . . I can’t swim,” said Darry. “Oh, don’t worry about it. I’m a natural. Just umm hold onto this piece of wood.” Penny then slowly slipped the piece of wood into his wet hands. Then, she dragged him over to the blowhole and pushed him forward. “Come on, the whalecorn is coming up for air soon!” “I’m ready!” Darry yelled. And off they went. As Darry clutched onto the
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