An Excerpt from “Sparks”
By Alex Uccello
We stopped for a drink and lunch. The lunch was like tar, except it wasn’t sticky. It was hard and chewy. On we went, and we stopped in _____, where we hit the hay and hard. The tents were small and shabby looking.
“A small wind could carry these tents miles away.”
“I know, but it’s all we have.”
“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Sergeant, happy birthday to you!”
“Aw, you shouldn’t have.”
“It was nothing.”
“No, you really shouldn’t have. The General will get upset, and…”
There was the General, standing tall and true. The Sergeant looked into his eyes and noticed that he wasn’t upset – he was glad and happy for him. Right after that split second, everyone immediately rushed to line up. The General’s face changed and he said, “Keep partying, but in one hour I need you to return to your duties.”
“Thank you sir!”
“Oh, and one more thing…”
“Yes sir?”
“Happy birthday.”
The General left the tent and was not seen again until later on. One hour went by like the wind.
“Let’s go, let’s go, come on! We don’t have all day, we need to be in _____ by sun-down!” said the Sergeant, barking his orders. “I’m now twenty-eight years old and today will break my back.”
On our way into the desert, a truck carrying gasoline was coming into their compound. They contacted the driver and told him to move, but he screamed Arabic words into the phone and hung up.
“Fire the RPG at the tanker now!” Boom! A ball of flame went in the air. “Holy crud!”
“We can’t afford to get hurt by terrorists.”
The next city we went into was _____. It was a quiet city. As we were going along people were starting to come out of the buildings. They had no weapons. As our convoy was slowly moving through the city we noticed they weren’t enemies, they were our allies. We went on our way to their governor’s mansion. We talked to him and luckily he spoke English.
“Hello, welcome to _____.”
“Thank you.”
“General, I can supply you with whatever you need, and you need to worry no more! We will protect your men and convoy.”
“Thank you, that’s very kind of you.”
“Come, bring your captains and sergeant, and we shall feast!”
And we walked into this tall and wide mansion.
Boom! At three a.m., eight falcon planes flew in the air. They shot their payloads at one of our tanks and succeeded in destroying it. One of the tanks blew up into smoke,
ash, and fire. Soon fifteen Arabic soldiers launched RPGs at the planes. “Three down, three to go,” said Sergeant. “Get those patriots on the tarmac!” Finally three patriots on humvees moved in. “Fire!” Boom! All eight planes were out of the air.
To Be Continued…
The Fairy Tales
By Maddie Uccello
There once was a princess who lived in a castle. She was very lonely and she loved to read books. Then she saw a blue bird. It chirped in her ear and she knew that the bird wasn’t really a bird, it was a fairy bird. She couldn’t believe it – she first thought it was a bird, but it truly was a fairy. Then she got outside and then she and her friend went to the lake. Then they went to the park, then back to the castle. Then there was the dragon. She was so frightened she ran as fast as she could and finally she got to the castle. She ran inside and then she was safe. The dragon got so angry that it exploded with fire, and she couldn’t believe her eyes she was so happy that the dragon had exploded. Then they had a big party.
And then it was the next day. She said, “I wonder what adventure I will have today. Let’s go to the library!” As she read, she said, “Do you know that people have millions of hairs? I just thought people have only hundreds, but they really have millions of hairs!”
“Hm, are you thinking what I’m thinking? I never knew that you can have adventures in stories.”
“Wow, I never knew that, so that’s cool.”
“So, I wonder what we’ll do next.”
“Go to sleep, ha ha ha!”
And then it was the next day. “I wonder what we’re going to do today.”
“Where do you want to go first?”
“Let’s go to the forest.”
“Okay, to the forest we go!” So they went to the forest. When they went to the forest she never knew someone was following her. And then she heard footsteps behind her and then it jumped on her. She screamed, "aaaaaaaaa!" She was so frightened she ran, but then she said, “Who are you? What do you want?”
“I want to kill you and your fairy friend!” the thing said.
She couldn’t believe it and she ran faster than she had ever run before. She finally got to the castle and she was safe.
“What do you want to do today?”
“Let’s have a tea party, okay?”
“I’ll get the tea ready, okay?”
“And I’ll get the food, okay?”
“So now we’re ready.” When they were done they wanted to play princess so they played princess. When they were done they said, “Want to get a snack?” “Sure,” she said. So when they were done they were so tired of eating all that food that they took a nap. When they woke up they were still tired so they took another nap. When they woke up, they were so full they felt sick until tomorrow.
So when they woke up they felt better. They were happy, so they danced around and then they threw up and they got sick again. Then they lay down on the couch and watched some TV. None of her channels were on so she said, ‘this is the weirdest day ever,’ and then she fell asleep.
The End
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