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Arlann

Jada had always loved her grandmother’s old farmhouse. The creaky stairs, the smell of cinnamon in the kitchen, and the cozy quilts piled on the beds made it feel like something out of a storybook. But this visit felt different.

It started the first night.

Jada was just falling asleep when she heard it—a soft tapping sound, like fingernails on wood. Tap. Tap. Tap. She sat up and listened. The room was dark, moonlight barely glowing through the curtains. The sound came again, this time more clearly—from beneath the floorboards.

The next morning, she told Grandma. “Probably the house settling,” Grandma said, not looking up from her knitting. “Old wood does that sometimes.” But Jada wasn’t so sure.

The second night, the tapping came back. Then it turned into scratching. Slow, deliberate scratching—right under her bed. Jada pressed her ear to the floor. The sound stopped. Her heart pounded. She jumped back into bed and pulled the covers over her head.

By the third night, Jada had a plan.

She borrowed a flashlight from the kitchen drawer, the one Grandma kept “for storms only.” Just before bedtime, she rolled up the rug in her room and looked carefully at the wooden floor. One of the boards was slightly looser than the others. She knelt beside it, heart racing, and slipped her fingers into the crack.

The board lifted with a creak. Boom! The floor fell beneath her and she screamed with fear then she felt a thud and she hit the ground hard and nearly broke her back then lights turned on and then she saw grandma tied up with ropes. Suddenly she knew what was happening. The grandma that was asleep was… a robot and it must have tied up the real grandma she rushed toward her and grabbed her pocket knife and sliced the ropes she freed grandma but then she realised there was no ladder “Ha. Ha. Ha. You fool. I am the robot and now that there is no ladder, I can end you.” 

Karen

Everyday in class, white cat puts her hand up to answer the question, leaving no more questions left for the other cats who really want to answer. This has been a problem for a very long time. Every cat in white cat’s class starts to dislike white cat because she is so selfish. Then the word spreads to all the students in the school and everyone in the whole school dislikes white cats now. After a bit, white cat loses all her friends and becomes lonely. White cat wonders why but keeps going anyway.

The bell rang and students rushed into their classrooms but of course white cat was already there. People took their seats far from white cat and since the pink cat and yellow cat were late they daringly sat next to white cat.

The reason why people disliked white cat so much was because she had always put her hand up to answer all the questions leaving cats who wanted to answer none. It has been going around for a long time ever since that happened. White also lost all her friends and all cats started to avoid white, white still didn't know why they avoided her and kept on getting more selfish overtime. It had become her personality.

Sam

A boy stumbles across underwater caves with buildings , but an eerie noise rumbles the ground. 

People have heard about this wonder, cursed with lightning that strikes everywhere. Darkness has covered every bit of land and water, souls of dead people from this place cursing anyone who dares step foot on these grounds.

But that boy is determined to find out the secrets, creatures that are home to the land.