Sarah Sylvia Stout: A Short Story

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Once there was a little girl and her name was Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout. Her and her father lived in a little house and Sarah loved to cook, but she would not take the garbage out.

Sarah Cynthia would cook and cook and when she did, there was more and more trash.

When Sarah went back into the kitchen to cook more, she slipped and fell. When she looked down she saw banana peels and orange peels all over the floor. “Oops, guess I better move that.”

Her daddy came downstairs and was threw with it, “ SARA, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE THE GARBAGE OUT, You’ve got to learn to clean up!”

“ I refuse to take the garbage out!” said Sarah Cynthia. Once again Sarah Cynthia wouldn’t listen to her father.

So once again Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout started to keep cooking and keep
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So she had an idea. She would trash the house and keep cooking till her daddy took out the garbage. The trash piled up to the ceiling and broke the windows, but Sarah would not take the garbage out.

One day when her daddy came home from work, all he could see was trash and all he could hear was Sarah Cynthia cooking and eating once again. He told her to take at least one bag out but she refused.

ONE WEEK LATER……..
Now the house was even worse. There were broken walls and broken doors, the roof raised and it rolled down the hall. Her father came home to unforgivable smell and house. He finally gave in and had enough of it.

“ SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT, I AM THROUGH WITH THIS MESS!”, he said, “ I’ve had people walk by our house and talk about you and this disgusting house, If you don’t clean up this house, YOUR GROUNDED FROM THE KITCHEN FOR 5 MONTHS!!”

Sarah could not believe her eyes, her father never gets this mad. She simply realized that she had to clean up. She realized she didn’t want to live in a pig stye

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