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The Lonely Skeleton

A skeleton won’t stop bothering a man and the man finds out why…

By CJ The Tall Poet

My Daddy Goes BOOM

A poem about someone’s daddy who loves pretending to be an astronaut. Or is he really pretending?

By Martin Bubear

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The Midnight Troll

A cat defends its owner’s possessions from a scary, thieving creature, resulting in total mayhem.

By Greeley B. Wright

Esme and the Magic Cat

Esme discovers an interesting and wonderful cat in her television and goes on a crazy adventure.

By Dave Gregson

The Lonely Skeleton

A skeleton won’t stop bothering a man and the man finds out why…

By CJ The Tall Poet

The Little Girl and the Daisies

Dulce explains the origins of daisies and what makes them so special.

By Dulce Rodrigues

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History lesson

The history lesson in the sixth "b" was the last one. Inna Ivanovna took the children to the hall, from where they were supposed to move as a whole class ninety million years ago to the Mesozoic era, at a time when dinosaurs roamed the planet like ordinary animals.

In the transfer hall, the students were instructed and put under a protective transparent cap, under which even midges from the past could not penetrate. But the boys have long known how to get out from under the cap. In order not to fall under the force field, it was only necessary to cover yourself with a briefcase like an umbrella and jump out. This is exactly what one of the students, Petka Sentsov, was going to do.

Petka studied poorly, if not worse, but he was a very proud person and loved to show off his prowess to his classmates. True, there were no predators or robbers at school, but here he had the opportunity to turn around to the fullest and become the hero of the week, or even the month.

As soon as the class moved into the distant past of the Earth, a one and a half meter dinosaur formed next to the protective hemisphere. The mouth of the lizard was littered with sharp teeth, its eyes looked at the aliens without blinking, and its front paws with long claws greedily grabbed the air all the time.

“This is a velociraptor,” Inna Ivanovna said calmly and pointed at the dinosaur with a pointer. - Write it down, otherwise you will later call it a bicycle or a bicycle scratch. Pay attention to his claws. With such a weapon, a predator easily cracks down on its herbivorous prey.

And the velociraptor was galloping around the protective cap, snapping its jaws and poking its terrible muzzle into the force field.

“Probably he thinks that this is a feeder, and we are meatballs,” said Tanya Zueva and took out a notebook.

“He should be kicked,” Sentsov casually said and added: “Is this a predator? Last week was an Allosaurus. Ten times more. Here is the beast.

"No one will be crutching anyone," Inna Ivanovna said when she heard Petka. - You can’t hurt animals, even if they are tyrannosaurs.

Inna Ivanovna continued the lesson, and Sentsov pushed his desk mate Pavlik in the side, wiped his nose with his fist and pointed to a stone that lay ten meters away from the cap under a huge tree fern.

— Bet three clicks I'll run out and fetch that rock over there?

— We bet — Pavlik caught fire, but immediately got scared and said: — What if this auto-cutter grabs you?

“We have seen such motor adapters,” Petka declared boastfully. He went to the transparent wall, covered himself with his briefcase and jumped out.

Outside the hemisphere, Sentsov felt a little scared. Eerie sounds came from the dense Mesozoic forest: either the hungry roar of some dinosaurs, or the death cries of others. Because of this, it seemed to Petka that the predators were just waiting for him to move away from the protective cap in order to rush at him. He already wanted to return, but he saw Pavlik's mocking smirk and made up his mind. Throwing the briefcase, he rushed headlong to the stone, grabbed it and at that moment heard the battle cry of a dinosaur. He noticed the student, carnivorously snapped his jaws and rushed to his victim. In one second, the velociraptor cut off Sentsov from the cap. Petka had no time to think, and with a plaintive cry he jumped into the Mesozoic bushes.

Sentsov was lucky. Behind the dense thickets of horsetails, he discovered someone's hole. Its hole was wide enough for him to crawl through on all fours. The dinosaur was a moment too late. He clicked his mouth in front of the entrance and roared offendedly.

In the meantime, a real panic arose under the cap. Inna Ivanovna even staggered in horror, and two students had to grab her by the arms. The girls squealed deafeningly and pointed fingers at the velociraptor, the boys shifted from foot to foot in embarrassment. And the culprit of the commotion crawled into the hole, but soon stopped, because he saw in front of him someone's round burning eyes.

- Mommy! Petka cried out strangledly and stepped back. On trembling knees, he climbed out of the hole and turned around. The predator, with his briefcase in his teeth, was already rushing towards Sentsov at full speed.

Petka himself did not understand how he flew up to the tree fern. He barely had time to pull up his legs, and the unlucky dinosaur missed again. Huge jaws clicked just a millimeter from the heel.

- Daddy! cried Sentsov, clinging convulsively to the branches. But here, too, an unpleasant surprise awaited him. Glancing up, Petka saw burning round eyes in the dense dark crown and, in horror, almost fell down right into the mouth of the velociraptor.

Inna Ivanovna quickly came to her senses and immediately began to act. The miniature history teacher covered herself with her daddy and jumped out from under the cap. She bravely rushed to the edge of the forest, on the run tore horsetail as thick as her arm from the ground, and the whole Mesozoic forest screamed:

"Hold on, Sentsov!" I'm going to help!

The dinosaur was taken aback by such impudence. He looked at little Inna Ivanovna in confusion and roared again, but his roar was immediately drowned out by the many-voiced cry of the sixth "b" class.

- Give me a dinosaur! shouted Zueva Tanya and jumped out.

— Hurr! - picked up the girls and all as one followed their friend.

- Forward to the assault on veloricinpopins! barked Pavlik and, together with the boys, rushed forward.

Velociraptor obviously did not expect such a turn of events. Having received from the fragile teacher several times a horsetail in the face, he recoiled in fright and shook his head. But when a whole horde of screaming students ran up to him, the dinosaur saved. The huge predator fled from the battlefield like a hare, and the class followed him with whoops for some time. They waved their briefcases, and the girls squealed so piercingly that all living things for many kilometers around calmed down respectfully.

Petka came down from the tree as pale as a wall. At first, he could not even speak, but only mumbled something. It immediately became clear that the predator had thrown Sentsov's briefcase somewhere, but they did not look for it in such dense thickets.

- All march under the cap! - adjusting her glasses with her finger, Inna Ivanova ordered. - The lesson continues.

Since then, Petka has become quieter and more modest. And a month later, he even began to study better. This happened after the class was taken on an excursion to the paleontological museum. The lecture was very interesting, and at the end the guide led the children to the window, pointed to the petrified briefcase and said:

- And this is the latest sensational discovery of paleontologists. She changed our understanding of dinosaurs. The briefcase was found in a cave next to the bones of a Velociraptor. This means that these dinosaurs were intelligent and attended school. Scientists sawed through the petrified briefcase and found several notebooks and a school diary there, which are about a hundred million years old. Now we even know the name of this velociraptor. His name was Sentsov Petr. But I must say that the dinosaur Sentsov was not entirely intelligent. In his petrified diary and notebooks, we found only deuces. Thanks to this, scientists concluded that dinosaurs became extinct because they did not want to learn.

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