She Writes

This is a short story that Marielle wrote in her class for which she was chosen to be one of the two Spotlight Writers of the Week several days back. Her work was hung in the cafeteria and in the library for a couple of weeks. The girl next to her is a first grader. Marielle is in second grade.


The Day Everyone Disappeared
by Marielle Perolina

On January first I knocked on my parents’ bedroom door. No one answered. I thought Mom and Dad and my brother were grocery shopping. When I went to the school no one was there. So then I thought everyone disappeared.

I went back home to solve this disappearance thing. I went to the kitchen to get some food and saw a note from an alien.

I made a rocket and blasted off Earth. I saw the aliens with my family and everybody. The aliens saw me and locked me in a cage. I had this bomb and boom it went. I saw my parents again. I saw the brain controller. I controlled all the humans to my rocket and blasted all of us back to Earth.

When everybody was normal again I told them I had saved them. Everyone said I was a hero.


Anak-dotes

Papa: Marielle, would you like to raise a pig?
Marielle: I've never heard of anyone racing against a pig.
Papa: What are you talking about?
Mama: You were not listening. Papa said raise, R-A-I-S-E not race, R-A-C-E
Marielle: Oh, homophones...raise and race.
Mama: You two dont see eye to eye.
Marielle: Yes we do. Papa, look me in the eye.
Mama: Marielle it's an idiomatic expression.
Papa: It means we dont understand each other.
Mama: Someday your school will teach you about idioms.
Marielle: Medium?
Papa: No. Large.
(No. Small.)

-oOo-

Papa: Spell Missisippi.
Marielle: Easy. We just studied about abbreviation in school. M-R-S period S-I-P-I. Mrs. Sipi.
(Korek ka dyan!)