Short Stories written by: Maria Abreu
Timmy was a cat who loved eating meat. He always dreamt of having a feast of rats. But poor Timmy was scared of the dark.
One night, his owner, Rita went to bed early and turned off the light before Timmy had fallen asleep. Timmy was very scared in the darkness, and suddenly he saw three white shapes jumping on the table and was terrified!
Even if Sebastian was a bit slow, he was persistent and a very good worker.
When he was a young snail, he would go with his mum all the way to school. It was only 2 meters away from their home but it always took them more than an hour to get there.
There was a group of miners who were all friends and had no work. They needed to earn money to feed their families, but didn´t know how to.
John, was one of them and he had an idea:
There was a little lion called Tod living in a beautiful forest. The environment he lived in was perfect, but he felt sad.
One day he went for a stroll with his family and they went so far that they arrived to a scary part of the forest known as “The Black Forest” where all the animals were terrifying and mysterious.
All the lions in his pride avoided the black forest, Tod did also, but he had the misfortune to run off alone to the opposite side of the forest and get lost.
Short Story written by: Luisa Fernanda Martinez (7 years old)
Sammy was a toad who wanted to fly like a bird. One day he met a heron at the lake to whom he said: “I want to fly like you do!”.
And the old heron replied: “Value yourself, don´t try to be like others”
John was 6 year old boy who was very special but he had one peculiarity, his eyes were always watering and he couldn´t do anything about it. He had been to the doctor but the doctor had no solution for this.
“Value yourself and love your defects, think positive as self esteem is very important. ” – his parents would say.
There were lots of animals living happily in a forest, but then a group of children appeared and began to live there too.
Their leader was Mark who was very authoritarian. Anna was his friend, although they didn’t always agree with each other.
Short Story written by: Sofia Espinoza Rodriguez
Alice had heard a rumour about witches at school, but didn´t believe it.
One night she heard a strange noise and woke up startled thinking about the rumour.
She went to take a look out of the window, but suddenly felt very tired and fell asleep on the floor.
Short Story written by: Maribel Aviles
There was a pack of wolves made up of lots of old and young wolves. The youngest was called Wolfy and he was the naughtiest wolf in the pack.
Wolfy was always annoying his brothers and sisters especially at lunchtime because he couldn´t stay still and always ended up eating all their food.
Every 31st of October, Kingtown celebrates Halloween, also known as the night of the witches.
Kingtown is a mountain village situated up in the hills and it is always covered with fog at sunset, which makes visibility more difficult for its inhabitants.
