The 826NYC Review, Issue No. 12

The star said, “You have to swim.”

“You have to run around the river,” said the black hole reassuringly.

“Fine, I will swim. But only this once,” Venus said.

“Good! Now we have to swim because the monster is gaining on us! So we better swim now! Let’s go!”

Venus jumped into the hot cocoa river.

It was so warm. There were giant marshmallows in the hot cocoa river and they started surfing on the marshmallows.

Once they got onto land, they started running. They saw candy mountains and they started to climb a mountain.

The monster came out of the hot cocoa river even stronger. He started to climb and search for Venus and Mars.

“Come on, we have to climb,” said Venus.

“No, I will not,” said Mars.

The star and black hole popped up again.

“Oh, you forgot that Mars was afraid of heights, so she won’t climb,” said the star.

“Can you keep climbing so the monster won’t get you and us?” the black hole asked Mars.

“Wait, I think that it wants you to climb so you don’t climb,” said Venus.

“Yes,” said Mars. She was terrified of heights, so she felt good about not climbing.

They saw a frozen treat land that looked like an ice skating rink, so they started to skate as fast as they could (which was pretty fast because they had a gold medal at their school).

They were ready to face anything.

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