Thread:Sussettey1/@comment-31322722-20181230210852/@comment-31322722-20181231193658

Actually, when I was in third grade, we had these people called “The Story Pirates” come to our school and give an assembly. At the end, they said they would be back soon and we should all write stories for them to act out for next time. So when I got home, I got started right away. I wrote a short story that took place before Thanksgiving about a little girl who loved to make little paper crafts. Since it was almost Thanksgiving, she made one of a turkey. If I remember correctly, she made it to give to someone...? Anyway, she goes to sleep shortly after that, but hears a noise in the middle of the night. She gets up and realizes that the paper turkey came to life and ran away! So she puts a jacket on, and her shoes, and chases after it. It’s actually quite long, but at the end, she catches it, goes home, and makes more copies of it, but it’s implied that they all run away too. It was an obvious parallel to the story about the gingerbread man that came to life and ran away.

...Yeah, it got rejected. I wrote a lot of stuff in early elementary school.