The Day with the Strange Animal...

Sierra is one creative girl and recently wrote this story at school.  The class was given a prompt.  They are playing on the playground and see a strange animal.  Here is what Sierra came up with.  (The other girls in the story, Mirabelle, Sofia and Emily, are friends from school.)

Oh, and I didn't change the wording, punctuation, etc.  You may find the use of the word "harmless" amusing.

The Day with the Strange Animal

Whoosh! The cool winter air blew on my face as I swung forward on the swing. “ It’s really cold out today,” I said, tugging my coat closer around me with one hand.

“It sure is,” my friend Sofia said back. “ Do you want to tell ghost stories?” It was something we loved to do.

“Sure.” I answered.

“Okay, so once there was this ghost, and it lived in a-

Suddenly, I gasped.

“What? I didn’t even get to the scary part yet,” Sofia said.

“No, not that,” I said slowly. My voice was a little shaky.

“Well than what?” Mirabelle asked impatiently.

“I-I thought I saw the bark chips moving by themself,” I said.

“It was probably just your-

“There! There! Did you see them?” I almost yelled.

“I think I saw them,” Emily said.

I jumped off the swing and followed whatever was moving it.

Suddenly, my shadow moved so it was over the mysterious creature. For some reason I could see it now, and it was the strangest thing I had ever seen. My mouth dropped open. It looked like glass or water. The thing looked like a lizard, except for its feet. They were round like a finger tip. But the most peculiar thing about it was its eyes. They were as dark as a midnight sky.

“Don’t you see it now?” I whispered.

“Yes,” they whispered back.

Just then, it bared its teeth, which looked like those of a saber tooth tiger.

I decided to pick it up, it didn’t look too harmless. I did, but it was so cold that I dropped it.

Suddenly, with a brilliant flash of light, in the things place appeared a stone as black as its eye.

Just then, the whistle blew and so I picked up the stone and started walking to the classroom.

“Let’s not tell anyone about this,” I told my friends, They nodded.

And so, after that we never saw it again.

The End