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

I Know What Bit You Last Summer

YOURE FINALLY ON summer vacation! Under a blue sky you’re cruising down the wooded road near your grandmother’s beach cottage on your new 27-speed mountain bike. A warm, humid breeze flutters through your T-shirt as your legs pump with all the pent-up energy from sitting at your school desk last year.

Unfortunately, you’re not pedaling fast enough to outpace a female deer fly as it homes in on you from the rear. That deer fly can fly up to ninety miles per hour, and

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