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= Anna Yesypenko = The Creation of Annaland Once upon a time, a small girl sat in a small house with only one room. The walls were so white, bright, and barren that her little eyes would hurt after looking at them for more than a second. She lay down on the hard ground, curled into a little ball, and shut her eyes tightly. She made a wish. She wished for a sight to see. The little girl did not know how many times she wished or how long she wished, but she wished with all of her little might. Suddenly, she opened her eyes. The walls were no longer white. In fact, the walls were gone. What was before her was endless sky, full of shades of colors that she never could have imagined. After all, all the girl could see before were the blinding white walls. She stared at the colors for a day until she could see them even when her eyes were closed. Lying on her back, she felt terribly uncomfortable. She wiggled and wiggled around, but no matter what she did, her little back prickled and felt numb. Closing her eyes, she imagined the colors of the sky and started wishing again. She wished just as long as hard as she did the first time. Suddenly, the ground became soft and luscious. She opened her little eyes to find herself in a field full of flowers, trees, and grass. She no longer desired to lie on the ground. She got up to climb on the trees and smell the flowers. The field was on the tallest mountain in sight, towering over all of the other land. She ran in the field for the second day until she saw, held, and smelled every flower on the field. Then, she realized she was alone. She wandered through for what seemed like an eternity to her. Not a single soul was to be found. Sorrowful, she lay down on her back again, closed her eyes, ran her fingers through the luscious grass, smelled in the pleasant aroma of the flowers, and started wishing again. She wished just as long as hard as she did the first time. Suddenly, she heard the sound of the animals. They all sounded differently. Although the girl could not understand exactly what they were bellowing, they seemed to be telling her to open her eyes. The girl slowly opened her eyes to look upon what she had created. As far as her little eyes could see, animals surrounded her. Not one looked like the other. She walked toward the biggest one, the elephant. The elephant looked into deeply into the girl’s eyes, and somehow the girl knew that the animals would never harm her. The elephant’s trunk wrapped around her little body and lifted her upon the shoulders of the elephant. The animals cheered. They all ran around in the field for the third day until they could no longer feel their legs. Exhausted from happily frolicking in the fields, the animals and the girl felt a need for a drink. They looked high and low for something to replenish themselves, but nothing was to be found. The little girl lay on her back, closed her eyes, listened to the beautiful sounds of the animals, and started wishing again. She wished just as long as hard as she did the first time. Suddenly, she felt little drops of water falls on her. She opened her eyes and looked up at the sky. The brilliant colors still remained in the sky as it rained. The animals and the girl celebrated the rain on the field, singing and dancing until the water filled in the basins. When the rain stopped, the animals and the girl ran from the mountain down to the lakes and rivers of water. They all drank the water for the fourth day until their thirst was quenched. When the girl finished drinking water and wanted no more, she started heading back up the mountain. However, none of the animals followed her. They did not want to go to the high mountain, which was very far away from the cool water. The girl could do nothing to change their minds. She stormed back up to her perfect field by herself. She curled up into a ball and for the first time, she cried. At this moment, the sky became a dark grey color and it started raining much harder than it did before. Lightning and thunder blazed before the girl. The animals began to bellow, begging for the girl to stop the storm. She kept crying and crying for hours as the rain became heavier and heavier. The little girl bawled, but no one could hear her. She was surrounded by the sky and earth, but she was completely alone. She closed her eyes, thought of the lovely sky, the abundant earth, the variety of animals, and the refreshing water she had created. This time, she did not wish. She simply lay in the field. She opened her eyes. She saw the brilliant sight and gasped in amazement. A remarkable creature had appeared. It was a horse with a powerful horn sticking out of its head and large, breathtaking wings. It was the wisest, smartest, and most beautiful creature in the universe, a unicorn, and it was standing before her. She climbed onto the back of the unicorn, and the unicorn took off into the stormy sky. She held on tightly to the strong neck of the unicorn as she soared above everything. She could see the animals and the earth below her drowning from the storm. She closed her eyes, and wished harder than she ever had for the storm to stop; however, the rain poured harder than ever. The girl had lost her gift, and could do nothing to save her precious world. The unicorn began soaring higher and higher into the skies, beating its wings furiously. Traveling faster than the speed of light, the unicorn pierced the sky with its horn. A flood of brilliant, bright colors poured through the hole in the sky. It was a rainbow. The girl stared in amazement as the rainbow absorbed all of the dark clouds and stopped the rain. Even though she was high in the sky, she could hear the animals cheering below. All of her worries seemed to disappear and her lips curled into a smile as her eyelids grew heavier. For the fifth day, the girl rested.

Eunice the Tweeting Menace By Anna Yesypenko and Max Keane One day, a girl named Eunice decided to open a Twitter account. She just did it for fun, but then disastrous things happened. It all started with one tweet… then things just spun out of control. Before Eunice knew it, she was spiraling down a long road of addiction to a social networking site. Her friends saw less and less of her. They only received her tweets to their mobile devices. This is her story. “I remember the first day Eunice got a twitter. She did not even know how to ‘@reply.’ Now, whenever I talk to her, she always speaks in 140 character sentences complete with misspelled words,” said Eunice’s friend, Helga. “OMG. I just like totally opened a windwo,” Eunice tweeted moments ago. “She is making my phone bills explode, like yeah totally! I can’t get her tweets to stop getting sent to my phone! STUPID TECHNOLOGY!” Astrid exclaimed heatedly. Despite what Astrid and Helga said, they soon joined Twitter. They too stopped attending school and caring about their appearances. In other words, they got ugly. Twitter had taken over their lives. Only time will tell if they overcome their addiction. What happened to Eunice, you ask? Eunice eventually got sucked into Twitter. She literally got sucked into her computer. Seriously, no one knows where she is.


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