Picture Challenge – Tunnel – by logan

“Jimmy, stop playing tricks on me. You know I am afraid of the dark!”
No one answered so I ran as fast as I could back to my house. But every thing in the house was dark, with windows shattered, doors ripped off their hinges and furniture overturned. Then I saw him. It was Jimmy with a weird look in his eyes. I started crying “Stop it Jimmy stop it!!” I started running again this time for the town but that was abandoned to. It looked like a ghost town except more people looking like Jimmy walking around. Then I realized that they were ZOMBIES. It felt like he was breathing down my neck so I ran faster and faster sprinting as fast as I could. Then I tripped falling head over heels then blackness.
“Where am I?” I asked.
“You’re in China,” a young boy replied. Then I saw them! The zombies were climbing through the hole.
I asked the boy, “Where is the nearest transportation device?”
“There is the bullet train, only a five minute walk from here,” he said.
“Thank you,” I replied.
Those were the fastest five minutes of my life, running through the train station, jumping on to the train just before the doors shut. I was in the back of the train and just as I started to think I was safe I saw the zombies yet again. They were somehow hanging onto the back or the front and I never really knew which was which.
I couldn’t believe that nobody noticed them, so I asked the man next to me, “Don’t you see the zombies on the back of the train?”
“Are you crazy!  There are no zombies anywhere,” he replied.
“They are right there!” I was pointing straight at the zombies, but no one knew what I was talking about. I realized maybe I was the only one who could see the zombies.

Finally the train stopped I got out and immediately started running again then a man with a crazy look on his face grabbed my arm.
“Excuse me sir but hurry.” Then his grip tightened and it became unbearable and then I blacked out. The last thing I saw was the crazy man smiling…….

The next thing I saw was Jimmy Shaking me awake. I was on the ground feeling a little groggy then Jimmy said, “Are you okay? We almost missed all of Halloween! But its not over yet so lets go!”

Picture Challange – Spaceship – Liam

When two people and a dog, go to Mars to discover what mysteries might hold. After 7 gruesome months of space travel, they finally get there. But when they get there, it is overrun by martians and they are taken prisoner. The aliens are about to boil the dog in acid, (because it’s a stereotypical, bad guy thing) but they break free. They punch the aliens in the face saying “Haya!” and the astronauts yelled” Get away from our dog!” and freed the dog and manage to escape.

They try to get back to their spaceship but are pursued by the martians, who are shooting lasers at them. They finally manage to see their spaceship. They jump off the mountain (because they don’t got that much gravity) and land about 2 miles from the ship. When they are about 100 feet from the spaceship, one of the astronauts is shot in the foot by a laser. he is forced to be carried back to the spaceship.

They managed to launched the ship off of mars but the martians are still trying to kill them with flying saucers. They start to get a little close to the sun and are getting sucked in but fortunately, so are the martians. In a desperate attempt, they sacrifice all their fuel to get out of the sun’s gravitational field while the martians get burned in the plasma. The astronauts (and dog) use an escape pod to get back to earth.

Picture Challenge – Tunnel- by Anna

It was the grossest thing EVER! It was a mix of tomato sauce and jelly. I had invited Evan over and we decided to experiment with food. We started mixing our favorite foods and so far it was just tomato sauce and jelly. He had chosen tomato sauce and I had chosen jelly. We thought it might end up tasting good because it was all good food. Judging by how bad it smelled and how gross it looked, this was not the best idea. We decided to try it just because we were so curious. When it touched my tongue my muscles suddenly tensed. I felt my nose crinkle as I let out a loud “GROSS!” then spit the mixture out.
“Why did we even try this stuff! It’s terrible!” I asked.
“Even I don’t know what we were thinking! It smells pretty bad too.” We both sat down on my couch and had a laugh attack about how stupid we were.
My house is really old and reeks of dead bugs. Almost everything is made out of wood and there are some nails still sticking out of the floorboards. It is pretty dangerous to walk around my house. There is also a humongous hole in the middle of my dining room. Why, you may ask. Well, it all started like this… My sister and I brought a mini trampoline into the dining room while our parents were away. We were seeing if either of us could jump high enough to touch the chandelier. I know what you’re thinking. Not so smart right? It was my sister’s turn. One bounce, two bounces three bounce, KABOOM! Big drop. I still can’t believe she fell all the way through the floor! Of course that was when we were younger. Now, my sister is going to college and being stupid has become normal for me. Oh, and the nails sticking out of the floorboards, that wasn’t just from old age, that was me too.

I was about five years old and I saw my dad hammering. I wanted to hammer too so I asked my dad,  “Can I hammer too?”

His answer was, “No. You’re just too young.”

Just like any five year old would I got frustrated and said, “I’m a big girl! I’m into adults!”

My dad had a motionless face and said, “No.”

I really wanted to hammer so I cried for hours about it. Finally my dad went out grocery shopping. It was my chance. I took the hammer and tried to hit the nails into the floor as my father did. I didn’t exactly know where to put the nails so I just put them in random places not knowing that nails were supposed to nail things together. I put them all over the hallways and in every room. What I forgot was that my mom was still at home. When she saw what I did she freaked out and called my dad. Pretty soon they were both freaking out over the phone together. My dad tried to get all the nails out but it was impossible. I had even put some on the walls.

Now I sit here laughing to death with Evan, and I think I was not so smart to do all those things but at least they give me some good memories. I think, I feel bad for all the people who always listened and weren’t as curious. They have nothing to look back on and laugh about. They have no big holes in their floors or nails sticking out of the floorboard. They don’t have sisters who would be courageous enough to jump on a mini trampoline just to touch a chandelier. Most of all, they don’t have a friend like Even to taste crazy creations with. In the end, I feel lucky to have this life.