*I wrote this in grade 6, my mind wondered even then (written in 1991). It hasn’t been edited*

    Long ago when the earth was cracking , in a little town a young girl named Euphemia was rushing the chickens into their coupe. It was another earth quake. Euphemia was only five. Her mothers name was Lis and fathers name was Leo.

    Lis cried, “Euphemia, come inside, hurry up!”

    As Euphemia ran, a big crack split right in front of her. She looked down and  saw water.

    “Mom!” Euphemia cried. She ran the other direction. Euphemia tripped over a rock and fell in a different crack. The last thing Lis said to her was, “I love you, do not forget.”

    Suddenly the water was gone from the crack, and huge pillows filled it up. Down Euphemia fell. Lightly she fell on the pillows. Then the pillows disappeared and a whole bunch of tunnels were all around her. While the puzzled five year old was choosing which tunnel to go in, the earth quake finally stopped.

    Lis and Leo were looking in the crack that Euphemia fell into, but all they saw was water, there was no ground.

    Euphemia looked up and saw them. She cried, “Mommy, Daddy!” at the top of her lungs. As she cried, she said, “they can’t hear me.” She kneeled to think.

    A moment later, she jumped up and exclaimed, “I got it, I got it! I’ll go in one tunnel and come back out the other side.” Euphemia chose the pretty tunnel to go through first. So she went. Half way in, she saw a light right in front of her and she ran.

    At the end of the tunnel she shouted, “I’m free, I’m free.”

    Just then a wicked voice screeched from behind a bush and said, “No you’re not!” The little creature was a Troll. Euphemia blinked, she did not believe her eyes. She ran back through the tunnel she came from. The Troll was too quick and put a gate up in her way, and laughed, “I got you now!”

    She screamed. The high pitch made the bars crack and she ran away.

    When she got to the other side, she went into a different tunnel, the ugly tunnel. On the way she felt something magical all around her. When she got through the pretty tunnel, she saw a Unicorn eating leaves off the trees. In a glass shining lake, there was two Mermaids. Euphemia asked the Unicorn, “Where are my mom and dad?”

    “Over the hillside at the end of the rainbow,” replied the Unicorn.

    She said goodbye to the Unicorn and Mermaids, and walked over the hillside and past the rainbow.

    Euphemia looked around, she saw he mother. “Mommy, Daddy!” called out Euphemia.

    Lis and Leo said, “Honey, where were you?”

    “I do not know exactly,” she said. They all hugged and went home, where they lived happily ever after.

The End

By ten year old me Alexandra Ann Riddell