Ivy’s Return
A house cat dreams of becoming a human girl so she can play the piano The melody came on the beams of moonlight. Moonlight poured through a tall window, covering the room in an eerie...
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Original fiction by young writers ages 8-13
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A house cat dreams of becoming a human girl so she can play the piano
The melody came on the beams of moonlight. Moonlight poured through a tall window, covering the room in an eerie glow. Ivy lay on the fluffy carpet, fur glowing slightly. Her ears finally stopped twitching at every noise, wishing it was music. More specifically, piano music.
Nicky’s rivalry with her perfect cousin grows as she learns they have even more in common than she thought
This is the first installment of Emily Chang’s novella, which received honorable mention in our 2022Book Contest. We will be publishing the novella over the course of three issues.
Prologue
(I’m no literary nut, no matter what Aunt Illy thinks.
A young wolf finds himself drawn to another, dangerous world
The wolf pack silently wandered through the forest, our leader in front. I stood by my mother, straining my ears for any sound that could mean danger. Trotting towards a tree, I lowered my nose to sniff at it. My mother nudged me with her nuzzle.
A call to action to protect the unique types of fairies that are helping preserve our ecosystems
A keystone species is a species so important to its ecosystem that if you took it away, the whole ecosystem would collapse. An example of this is the sea otter. Sea otters eat sea urchins, which eat kelp forests, which produce a lot of oxygen.
Leeka the wizard and her trusty oak wand pledge to save the depleted forest
Leeka, the wizard, was frantically looking around for her lost wand. A silk- smooth wand of oak. Stone-sturdy. Embedded with multicolored flashing opals. Perfect for a wand! It was the gold in her heart.
Tired, she gave up.
A daddy longlegs braces himself for his fate after two girls find him in the shower
Bam! Crash! An earsplitting noise awakens me from my peaceful nap in the damp tub. My most feared enemy, deathly water, gushes down violently, leaving my eight nimble legs completely soaked. Oh, how cold and uncomfortable water is!
Gooby, the first alien to attend a human school, finds a valuable coin
It was a bright and sunny day, and Gooby was racing down the hot pavement. It had only been one year since humans had accepted aliens into Earth’s society. The planet that Gooby was from was taken over by another species, so they had no choice but to retreat and come to Earth and ask humans for help.
Daisy discovers a dryad in a clump of lilac bushes in her backyard
Daisy was four when she first met the Bush Girl. She had learned that her mother was making stir-fry for dinner and had decided to run away. Daisy liked the idea of running away. It sounded like something a character in a book would do. It sounded like an adventure. Daisy never really ran away.
A new friend inspires Alani to face her stage fright
When I wake up on the morning of the performance, I’m fine. For about three seconds. Then I remember what day it is, and my stomach plunges up and down at the same time, going weightless. “Oh no,” I mumble to myself. “It’s Sunday.”
“Heck yeah it is!
When her best friend disappears, Katie puts on her detective hat
A typical Sunday night in the Midwestern town of Mells Bells included fourteen- year-old Katie up way past her bedtime typing out her latest article. Her articles covered topics ranging from the harms of pesticides to the new mayor’s dog’s death.