Resting Pine Oaks: A Short Story

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It was a sunny, normal day, in Resting Pine Oaks. A small town, just east of Ohio. The sun was shining over all 150 residents. All were calm but one. This one new something, something dangerously coming. Something that could ruin or endanger the lives of all the residents. Shasta-Shaniqua Brown knew it was bad. She warned so many people, but they just looked at her like she was crazy. And for a while, she was starting to believe it too. Until today, when everyone will regret not to take her advice and leave. A couple of weeks ago, she was getting ready for her family vacation. But her dad, Dr. Brown, a world renowned scientist, had called her into his lab. As she was going in she noticed he was worried. Not like all the other times, when he …show more content…
She was going up floor by floor, until she got to the top. She ran out right to the edge, she looked down and realized this was very difficult. She remembered that it is easily provoked. How is this bottle of repellent gonna kill this huge creature, it’s just gonna make it angry. She thought to herself, but she still had hope in her father. She still had hope that she would save her town, and world. She stood tall and confident, on the ledge of the Supermarket, and screamed, “Hey!” at the gigantic beast. As It leaped around, Shasta-Shaniqua could see the smoke flooding out of his nostrils. She took all her might, and threw it right at his eye. Which was the size of a school bus. The beast roared and roared, until falling to the ground. It was crying in deep pain, trying to stop it, it scratched its eye left and right, hoping it would get rid of the burning. It did not, in fact. Then, after so much roaring, POOF, he popped like a huge firework on the fourth of July. “Everyone cheered in excitement, as my grandma, saved their whole town.” A little boy named Bobby, said at his classroom show and tell. He had a huge smile on his face, same as all the other kids. Standing next to him was, his beloved grandmother, the one who saved the

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