Hubbell Writing Club Stories: Comics, Tragedies and Insane Imagination

By Hubbell Elementary Writing Club

Hubbell Elementary's Writing Club Stories: Comics, Tragedies and Insane Imagination has a variety of stories -- funny and sad, scary and kind of odd -- all written, edited and compiled by Writing Club members. This version of Volume 1 has only stories and poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312162112

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Hubbell Writing Club Stories: Comics, Tragedies and Insane Imagination

Hubbell Writing Club Stories: Comics, Tragedies and Insane Imagination!

Volume 1

(Although we had to leave the comics out this time…)

Hubbell Elementary Writing Club

Des Moines, Iowa

Copyright © 2014 Hubbell Elementary Writing Club

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

DEDICATION

To YOU, the reader, because without you, our writing would just be a bunch of words.

And to Miss Babe, our parents, and anyone who support us.

The Keepers of the Lost

by Madeline F.

Vanessa laughed, tasting the salty ocean. She jumped as a wave surged towards her, sliding onto the boogie board as she was propelled forward upon the shore. Vanessa loved the soft cushion of the warm sand beneath her feet and the serene sounds of the waves, seeming so gentle.  Still, she knew better than to underestimate the powerful force of the ocean.   Vanessa spent every summer on the beautiful east coast, and for her, a Midwesterner, beaches were a luxury.

Entranced by the enchantment of the ocean, Vanessa swam farther out, oblivious to her parents’ calls of warning.

Vanessa! Swim back! You’re too far out! her father exclaimed.

She desperately tried to remember what her parents had told her to do if she was caught in a riptide, her current situation.   She swam to the side, away from the pile of rocks revealing itself as the culprit. The angle created by the rocks caused a current. She had swum closer and closer to the rocks, not noticing as she approached them.

Eventually Vanessa could only hear the terrified commands of her family,