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Giant snail

and the

Zucchini

Written & illustrated by Ella T

Giant Snail was roaming around one day when he saw a zucchini. He didn’t see any other snails that would claim this tasty treat, so he ate all the zucchini. Then he left. Down the street Mystery Snail was picking flowers. Mystery Snail came home surprised that her delicious zucchini was gone. Who could have taken my zucchini, she thought.

 Back at Giant Snail’s house Giant Snail was going to take a nap. Eating all that zucchini made me sleepy… he thought. “Yawn, I had a very good sleep.” said Giant Snail. “Maybe I should take a walk!” he exclaimed.

Back at her house Mystery Snail was still trying to figure out who ate her zucchini. “I should make a list of suspects!” she yelled. Well I know Mini Snail didn’t do it so I should cross his name off. And Sweet Snail is too sweet to do it.

• ·        Mini Snail
• ·        Mama Snail
• ·        Papa Snail
• ·        Giant Snail
• ·        Happy Snail
• ·        Hyper Snail
• ·        Sad Snail
• ·        Sweet Snail

Or Sad Snail, Mama Snail, or Papa Snail. But I don’t know about Hyper Snail, Giant Snail, or Happy Snail.

Now, Happy and Hyper were taking walks just as Giant was. And they all happened to be walking by Mystery’s house. Happy was the first one to pass, and of course he was carrying a happy tune. “Do you have a moment?” asked Mystery. “Of course!” said Happy. “I was wondering if you passed by my house today, Happy?” questioned Mystery. “Nope, not in the past five days.” said Happy. And how can you prove that?  Just ask Sweet she’ll tell you. OK. Bye!

On Giant’s walk he was seeing wonderful things: flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, rainbows, and even finding Snail Smackeroos.  Giant was so, so, so happy. He was probably the happiest snail in the world! He would jump and jump if he could.

Now Hyper was approaching Mystery’s house. She made sure to clear out the furniture. You don’t want to know how hyper Hyper is. Could you come in for a sec Hyper? Sure I would!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  See what I mean about him being so hyper. Did you pass my house this morning, Hyper? NOOOOOOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Okay you can leave now. THAAAAAAANKSSS!!!!!!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!!

Now it was Giant’s turn because he was coming near Mystery’s house. Could it be Giant? She thought. Or am I wrong? “Well here is the moment of truth.” Hi Giant, can you come in for a minute?  Well…… Okay. Hmmm… thought Mystery why did he hesitate for so long? Could HE be the zucchini thief? “I was just wondering if you passed my house this morning.” “Um… well…yeah.” More hesitation, she thought. Did you see a zucchini? Yep. Did YOU eat a zucchini? Maybe. I need a yes or no. Well …. Yes. I’m sorry Mystery I did not know it was yours, I can give you another one if you like. No thanks, Giant you gave me a mystery to solve, and that’s what I love to do. Well…

For one snail and all snails!

The End

Until the next time with Giant Snail!





 Giant Snail #2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giant Snail

And when the garbage cans attack

Written & illustrated by Ella T

 

 

In Snail Land all the snails were snug in their beds, when they were awoken by a terrible sound. THWINK! THANK! THONK! “WHAT COULD THAT SOUND BE!?” yelled all the snails in Snail Land. One brave snail came out of his house to find out what it was. That snail was Hyper. He saw what it was and called everysnail to tell them a garbage can was ATTACKING! “We must do something!” exclaimed Mini.

On Snail Island everysnail got the snail call there too. Well there wasn’t exactly “everysnail” on the island, because only Sweet was there. But, anyways everysnail got the message.

Back at Snail Land, Giant Snail was talking to the garbage can about why it was here and what it wanted. He said he was here because he was on a mission and it wanted 100 bowls of trash and 2 bowls of algae and wasn’t leaving until he got them. Over the months the snails got the stuff they needed, so far over 5 months they had gotten 1 bowl of algae and 50 bowls of trash. But that wasn’t enough for the garbage can. He wanted it faster! He brought in some more cans, so the snails would speed up.

Sweet, the snail on the island was getting stuff on the island too. She pretty much had to. I mean if all snails didn’t pitch in the island & the land would get smooshed by the cans eventually. 

In 8 months the snails had 75 bowls of trash & 1 ½ bowls of algae. Did I mention snails love algae?  On the 10 month mark of collecting the snails had everything they needed for the cans to leave Snail Land. So they filled their UFO with the stuff and left.

The cans headed towards Trash Planet to give their leader the stuff they collected. WHOOO… the UFO landed on the dusty, mucky surface of Planet Trash. Their leader took the stuff from the trash cans and identified them, suddenly the trashy ice cream truck showed up. All the trash cans dropped their stuff and ran to the truck. Easy! Easy! yelled the driver. 5 trapes a cone! Get em’ now!

“Ah ah ACHOO!” “Oh how I hate having a cold.” exclaimed Sweet snail. And why now?  Do you know why? It’s because my absolute FAVORITE event of the year is coming up! The Spring Super Sweet so Delicious Totally Fantastic Awesome Carnival   is coming up! And even when you thought it couldn’t get any worse it’s The Spring Super Sweet so Delicious Totally Fantastic Awesome Carnival’s 100^th anniversary!  Bad right? But it gets EVEN worse. I have to think of more candies for my shop even now! Hmm… butter bars? No.  Coco Bar? Sure! Why not? “I’ll send an e-mail to Mini to see what he thinks!”

Here is Sweet’s e-mail to Mini:

Mini, do you think you’d like a Coco bar? Does a Butter Bar sound disgusting? WBS (Write Back Soon) Sweet

On Planet Trash the trashlings were all eating their trash ice cream except the trash cream can. He was counting his trapes.

1,535 trapes! Unbelievable! Amazing! Astonishing! Shocking! I’m ranked 21 out of 100 but I think I’ve set the record for most trape earning! He immediately went to the trash cream shop. Why? To report to the trash cream headquarters located inside of the trash cream shop! He told the headquarters everything how much trapes he made, the location, what he was selling, what time, and how many people bought trash cream. (Precisely 500 trashlings) The headquarters officially told him that he broke 2 records! The 1^st record he broke was the number of trashlings. He broke the record by 129 trashlings! Then he broke the trape earning record by 456 trapes!

“Snail Island its paradise, Snail Island its paradise, slips and slides ride and ride, all at Snail Island!” Hummed Happy. “What are you doing?” asked Mystery “Oh, nothing.” replied Happy. “You’re doing something. Like you’re taking a walk, humming Snail Island its paradise, Snail Island its paradise, slips and slides ride and ride, all at Snail Island!”Said Mystery. “How did you know?” asked Happy. “My name’s Mystery, Happy. I like mysteries. Now do you get it?” said Mystery. “Oh yeah, I mean of course I get it!” said Happy a bit embarrassed. “I’m going home, OK?” Happy randomly said. “But Happy you carry your home!” exclaimed Mystery. “My non-traveling home!” yelled Happy as he slid away.

“To Snail-land in 10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…0 - Blast off!”  Yelled the trashlings.

“Snails of Snail-Land and Snail-Island…” announced the trash cans. “We are very, very sorry for demanding trash and algae from you. You don’t deserve to be treated that way. So a gift from us saying sorry-200 bowls of algae.” Continued the trash cans “Thank you, Thank you so very, very much! We forgive you!” yelled all the snails.

For one snail and all snails!

The End!

Until next time with Giant Snail!

Giant Snail #3

Giant Snail meets Kutie Kat

Written & illustrated by Ella T

One day Giant Snail was bored. He tried playing board games. No luck-still bored. I thought they were supposed to cure bored-ness he muttered to himself.  So he went outside to play. But…no luck-still bored. But then he saw another snail. Who is she? Did she just move to Snail land? He thought. “Hi! My name’s Kutie Kat Snail! What’s your name?” Kutie Kat yelled. “My name is Giant Snail! Did you just”- “Hi Kutie Kat! Mystery interrupted. You just moved here. You live at 432 Slime Street. My name is Mystery Snail!” Mystery yelled to Kutie Kat. “How did you know I was new? How did you know I moved into the house at 432 Slime Street? How did you know my name?” Kutie Kat asked. “Oh, I just know. Things that are like a mystery just come to me.” Mystery replied. “Oh now I get it. Since your name is Mystery Snail you love solving mysteries and things like mysteries.” Kutie Kat said. “Um, Mystery you know you interrupted me, right?” Giant Snail suddenly said. “Oh, no I didn’t Giant, I’m so very sorry.”Mystery replied. “It’s OK Mystery you answered my question that I was going to ask KK.”Giant said. “Who’s KK?” Kutie Kat and Mystery asked. “The first K is for Kutie, the second K is for Kat.” Giant explained. “Oh, so you were going to ask Kutie Kat the question I answered, I get it now.” Mystery said. “Hey let’s go to meet the other snails! They will want to meet KK.” Giant exclaimed. “Great idea Giant, but I don’t think we’ll be able to do it because I need to unpack my things. You can help me if you want, then I can go to meet the other snails after I finish un-packing.” Kutie Kat said. “We’ll help you.” Giant and Mystery said together. “You are such good friends to me!” Kutie Kat exclaimed. “Let’s go!” exclaimed Mystery. Before you could “Super Slimy Sweet Silly Shilling Soup” Three times they were finished.

 The first snail they went to meet was Happy. He was the president of Snail Land and Snail Island. He thought Kutie Kat would be a very good Mayor of Snail land. He also said Mystery should run for mayor of Snail Island because on Snail Island there is always a mystery to be solved. Then Happy told us to visit Sweet the vice president of Snail Land and Snail Island.

  They went to visit her. She said the same thing Happy said about mayors and stuff, but she also told Giant he won the annual “what your names says about you” contest. “I love Snail Land!” Kutie Kat yelled.

 They met all the other snails. Everysnail became very good friends with Kutie Kat, but Giant was her very best friend.

 And it turns out that Happy was right. Kutie Kat is now mayor of Snail Land and Mystery is now mayor of Snail Island.  Three months after Kutie Kat was mayor she asked Happy to make Snail-mas an official holiday like the humans made Christmas an official holiday. Happy said yes. It was December 18, 2011 only 1 week until Christmas for the humans and Snail-mas for the snails! 

Hyper was getting very hyper, but not as crazy hyper as he would on Snail-mas! Mini decided to write about his first official Snail-mas eve. Here is what he said:

December 24, 2011

Today is my first official Snail-mas eve and I am already 9 years old! Hyper Snail is even more hyper then me! Tomorrow morning I wish to see: a science kit, a fish, a very bright flashlight, all of the A to Z mysteries, a new art kit, and a surprise under my tree. I also thank Kutie Kat for asking Happy if he could make Snail-mas an official holiday. I cannot wait until Snail-mas!  Mini Snail

The clock read 5:56. “It’s Snail-mas!!!” Mini yelled. Papa Snail came into his room. “Son do not yell other snails are still sleeping!” Papa said quietly. “Ok Papa, but I’m going to get up to look in my stocking.” Mini replied whispering. “OK but be quiet.” Papa said.

“Yummy! Santa Snail left me some candy! And a new pen and notebook!”Mini whisper shouted. “Oh my…he brought me a giant dictionary. I’ve been wanting one for years…I could use it for writing in my journal. I’ll write what Mini and Snail mean.” Mini whispered. Here is what Mini wrote: (With his new pen and notebook.)

December 25, 2011

I’m using my new giant dictionary to see what Mini and Snail mean.

Mini (noun) – 1: very short or small. 2: smaller version of something (something that is small in comparison with other things of its type, especially a minicomputer or a miniskirt.)

Snail (noun) – 1: crawling organism with shell (a small organism with a coiled shell and a retractable muscular foot on which it crawls. Class: Gastropoda) 2: slow-moving person or thing. (somebody or something that moves very slowly) 3: a slow-moving mollusk that has a spiral shell into which it can draw itself for safety and that can live either on land or in water.  Mini Snail

Giant decided to invite all the snails to his house for Snail-mas. Everyone had a great time, and everysnail had a great time. Kutie Kat and Giant are best friends. Merry Snail-mas Snails! Well…

For one snail and all snails!

The End

Until the next time with Giant Snail!

Sneak Peek of "Blood's Past" By AJ Ducier

by AJ Ducier

This is my family. I have two sisters named Justice and Freedom. My name is Blood. Crazy name right? Well, when I was born my mother, Kate, said I was a very dark red, the color of blood. That's where I got my name from. I could hear Justice and Freedom playing a game of Race up the Hill. Freedom rushed past me, hooves thrumming, and began to race up the hillside. Freedom was a white mare with a light pink nose. Mom says white is the color of freedom. 

        Justice came up behind her sister, trying to pull ahead. Justice has a black coat with white stockings. As the wind whisked around my mane, I thought, Hey, why not join in? With a mighty leap I sprang into action and started galloping top speed. I dodged around Justice and was pulling up behind Freedom. The race was nearly over. At the last moment, Freedom leaped forward with a burst of speed. She came in first, and I trotted back up behind her. "Freedom! Justice! Blood! Come here for a minute." Mom was calling from the bottom of the hill. All three of us, including Justice who had just come up over the top of the hill with us, started slowly down. "Yes, mother?" said Freedom. 

          "I want you to play other games instead of Race up the Hill. You could hurt your legs," Mother said. I nodded but inside I was growling. That was the best game to play! Justice spoke my thoughts.

"Mother," said Justice, "it's the most fun game! We won't run too fast. We won't hurt our legs, promise! Please let us play it." Well, having one game that you can't play is the least of my problems. 

More coming soon...

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