Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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COOPER FELT GOOSEBUMPS break out all over his arms. He looked at his mom in disbelief. She was wearing his video game headset and staring at the TV screen. There was a vein in the side of her neck that he had never noticed before. It was pulsing. But none of that was the most terrifying. The cause of the goosebumps was what he heard coming from his mother’s mouth.

“Yesss!” she hissed triumphantly. “I got the emerald sword! I’m coming for you, Dunder Dragon!”

“Mom? What are you doing?” he asked.

“Oh wassup, honey? NO! Look out! The

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