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It had six bedrooms, five baths and had an incredible view of the ocean. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:23:22 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/jeepers-creepers.html There was a boy who was with his grandpa on a farm and the grandpa said Go hang up the scarecrows on the pole and make sure that they are tight. So Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:08:59 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/a-doll-named-mary.html There was a little girl named Rachel and she had a big brother, a dad, and a mom and it was her birthday, so her mom went shopping and found a doll Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:01:39 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-shadow-man.html I grew up in Omsk, Russia and a common story there was that if you stole anything or committed a crime (in your teenage years) a man would stand Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:31:01 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/sleep-walking1.html She kissed the prince and... David lights out! OK Mum. David closed his book and turned off his night-light. He fell asleep dreaming of love, peace Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:29:12 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/sister-in-the-mirror.html I was sitting alone in the sitting room, it was great. The show went on and I watched quietly, my mum was at home and only had 10 minutes before her Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:43:09 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-fog-at-the-riverside.html It was a night like any other night, peaceful and quiet until you add the party crashers and crazy traffic. A man was walking home it was along the Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:36:01 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/terror-in-the-woods.html Christie, Nina, and Rachel were taking a hike through the woods on a cloudy, windy Saturday. They thought that it was just going to be an average Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:31:42 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/brogan-mydog.html Mr and Mrs Eliott were a happy couple until the bad news came. Mr Brogan Eliott had a disease that couldn't be cured. Soon after they were told this, Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:26:58 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/baby-sitting.html Sure, no problem! I had just agreed to look after my neighbours 3-year-old son for a few hours while they went out for a meal with my parents. BIG Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:30:33 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/phone-call.html Molly was talking to her friend Tilly on her phone and then she got cut off and a voice on the phone said I will kill you and she put the phone down Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:46:31 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-night-of-death.html These two brothers were walking home from school one night. They decided to take the shortcut through the woods. They heard something howl, so they Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:25:25 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/i-got-you-where-i-want-you.html It was two weeks after summer vacation had started and two boys, Logan and Michael were bored. Michael asked Logan what he wanted to do and he replied Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:35:36 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-battle-to-end-all-wars.html It is a sunny day, there are barely any clouds in the sky, the birds are chirping away. My friends and I are trying to relax, before we all have to go Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:25:36 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/not-to-youbut-for-you.html Ok. Picture this on my way home from a dreadfully long day at work, cruising in my car while singing back up vocals for Fergie (fergilicious no one Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:19:58 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-statue.html As the babysitter watched the parents pulled out of the driveway she turned around to see the children. They then went into the living room to watch a Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:22:08 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/bloody-barbie.html One day, in Arizona, a little girl played with her Barbie doll. The girl was poor and lived with her widowed mother. The little girl had very few Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:21:36 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/camping-trip.html Denise called her mother. Come here and help us unpack the car. Denise and her family decided to go on a camping trip. They were all having fun except Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:11:17 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-3-musketeers.html A couple of years ago, there were swallows nesting in our garage. When we renovated it, what did we find but a small group of little fledglings! Of Sat, 31 May 2008 12:53:39 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/deadly-kisses.html The only one care Sarah had was finishing her homework. Her little sister was there because her parents had to go out of town on a job in North Thu, 29 May 2008 10:31:15 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/sleep-walking.html She kissed the prince and... David lights out! OK Mom. David closed his book and turned off his night-light. He fell asleep dreaming of love, peace Thu, 29 May 2008 10:21:24 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/curiosity-of-the-dead-music.html When life takes away something you never had, what do you do? How do you know it was taken away? Easy, you borrow the feeling from someone else. You Wed, 28 May 2008 10:47:22 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/room-616.html A couple wanted to take a vacation one day. They decided to go to a beautiful hotel called the Blacksmith Hotel. When they got to their hotel room the Sun, 25 May 2008 20:04:07 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-horror-behind-mayonnaise.html Let me tell you about a girl named Sonia, she loved mayonnaise. Sonia would put mayonnaise on everything. She loved mayonnaise so much, that she would Sun, 25 May 2008 19:58:50 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-cornfield.html One day there were these two boys named Mark and Andy. They were the best of friends. They live in Kansas where the cornfields grow. They would tell Sat, 24 May 2008 11:10:43 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/kiss-of-death.html This is about a girl named Sara. She lived a scary and sad past. All her friends have died strange and Violent deaths. She still cries about it in Thu, 22 May 2008 10:26:17 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/air-vents.html There was once a little six year old girl called India Rose. She was a cute little girl, and took her puppy scruffy for a walk every afternoon. She Mon, 19 May 2008 12:57:44 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/revenge1.html Jenny was a cheerleader. She could do flips, jumps and execute the most daring tricks. During a practice routine she heard horns and sirens. When she Mon, 19 May 2008 12:52:56 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/my-friend-jim.html About a year after World War two started I was born and so was my so called friend Jim Wricker. C'mon Larry you know you want to. Ah my best friend, Fri, 16 May 2008 10:55:05 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-happy-couple.html There was once a beautiful girl and a handsome man who loved each other dearly. One evening, just after they had married, they were driving home in Wed, 14 May 2008 10:45:06 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/one-time-and-one-time-only.html It was dark and the sky seemed to be gray as I looked it seemed something or some one was out there so I took a look. There was an old lady saying Sat, 10 May 2008 13:10:51 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/settling-accounts.html There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than Tue, 06 May 2008 10:34:59 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/halls-of-horror-floor.html I was just about to go leave when the announcer said We're going into Code blue. No one can leave from any doors. We're sorry about this Man what are Sun, 04 May 2008 12:35:00 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/never-sleep-in-the-lower-bunk.html There were once two sisters named Ella and Katie. Katie was the eldest, and this was a privilege in many arguments. When it came to buying a bunk bed, Sun, 04 May 2008 12:21:27 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/giant-snake-at-camp-fun.html Every year my parents say its the greatest camp on earth, and that they have been there a thousand times. Camp Fun, it's so fun. There are no bugs or Sun, 04 May 2008 12:15:56 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-picture.html There was a girl and her parents who moved into a small cottage in the woods. The girl went exploring in the woods one day and saw a little house. As Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:59:40 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/water-girl.html There was once a family named the Davids. Steven Davids is the father, he own a very large toy company. Susanna Davids is his wife, she owns a very Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:59:24 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-worst-end-to-a-perfect-trip.html It all started sometime during August, during summer break. My family and I went on a trip to Montreal, in Quebec. The city had many malls and Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:05:15 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-house.html Today, I woke up in the middle of a large living room. My throat was dry, and it felt like I hadn't been awake in days. I coughed a few times, and Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:40:38 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/unforgettable-incident-as-a-child.html When I was a very young boy, perhaps nine or ten years old, and had not yet learned to swim, my friends took me to a large open well on a hot summer Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:33:07 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/where-there-is-a-will-there-is-a-way.html Little girl Arati was perfectly alright till yesterday. But there was a sudden change in her speech since morning. She had developed stammering. It Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:25:12 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/visualize-a-story.html It isn't easy for anyone to visualize a story before sitting down to write. Imagine what novelists must have to go through. This is a skill that children can't easily come up with themselves. They nee Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:25:09 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/my-dog-is-an-alien.html Ruff. The word used to mean nothing to me, but now it fills me with terror. First, my hands get all itchy, then my nose starts getting longer, I sink Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:13:15 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/midnight-murder.html Sleepovers were the best thing we could all do together. It was coming up to midnight. Gemma, Kaley, Samantha, Me and Grace were beginning to settle Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:24:03 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-clip-clip-slide.html One evening in a small town a young girl, about 12, was spotted running home suspiciously. A policeman saw her, stopped the car and rolled down his Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:18:35 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/down-in-the-basement.html Once I was on vacation with my family when my mom needed some jelly from the basement and she told me to go get it. Some old man had died in that very Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:07:09 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-dark-train.html There once was a lady that just had her first baby and one day she decided that she didn't want it anymore. One day she was traveling to her mother's Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:57:48 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/balance-with-bamboo.html On one weekend in the early morning boys and girls of the same neighborhood went out with the pet Julie. Among the boys Joe, Tom, Harry and Joshua Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:47:13 GMT