Aly Raisman's Short Story

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Aly Raisman was at gymnastics and she was practicing her bar routine. She was getting frustrated because bars are her weakest event compared to all the other events. Aly kept looking up at her picture on the wall at Brestyan’s American Gymnastics. That is where she practiced. She realized that going to the olympics twice wasn’t good enough. She had to get her bar routine perfect, but she won’t stop falling off of bars on the easiest skills and didn’t know why. “Aly! Why aren’t you making your bar routine today?” Aly’s coach yelled. “I don’t know I’m getting upset!” replied Aly. She kept working but she continued falling on the really easy skills. Aly was getting nowhere doing her routine over and over again, but her coach won’t let her leave the event until she finishes. She is starting, not only getting mad at herself but she was getting mad at her coach too. Which isn’t fair by the way. “Can I just move on to the next event because I just keep falling and it’s not gonna get any better,” Aly said.
“No, you have to get your routines done”, replied her coach.
Aly didn’t want to be here anymore and she thought in her head what if she were somewhere else. She put chalk on her hands and wrote meanwhile on the mat. Aly looks around and saw that she was in Hawaii. She loves it there. It’s really warm,
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She saw a green and blue object in the distance. She thought a little bit about where she could be. She looked down on what she was standing on. Aly was on the moon. She remembered from science class that there is less gravity on the moon and that she weighs less on the moon than on Earth. She jumps and just floats to the ground reminding her of a balloon. She runs and jumps all over the place and does a few gymnastics skills. Which was easy to do because she weighs as much as a feather on the moon. She having so much fun she didn’t realize that there was a weird green looking creature watching

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