Myrtle: A Short Story

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One day there was a turtle named Myrtle.He is 10 years old in human years.He was wanting to travel the world but he couldn’t.The reason why he couldn’t was because he was too slow and it would be forever before he got there.Myrtle didn’t even take any of his friends so,no one would ever know what happened to him.He lived in Alabama so,he wanted to travel to all the other states in order.The first state is Alabama but he lived there so he has seen it already.Then,he got on his way to Alaska.It took him more than a year to get there.When he showed up there he met a couple people and they became his friends,Their names were Alice the aardvark and Ralph the racoon.They asked him what he was doing there and he said that he was traveling the world.Alice …show more content…
The next day they left to go to New York.They skipped a lot of states but they didn’t care.In New York they had a lot of fun because everyone went to see the Statue of Liberty,the Empire State building,the 9/11 memorial,and Where the twin tours used to be.When all them saw where te twin tours used to be they balled their eyes out.They were so sad that they didn’t stop crying until a hour

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