“Write on!” Short Story Contest “Cotton Candy Land” (3rd grade group)
Cotton Candy Land Chapter One – Magic Dust
One day right before going to bed, Polly lost a tooth. She was really excited because she believed that the Tooth Fairy would come and give her some coins. So she put the tooth under her pillow. Uh Oh! Unfortunately, the tooth fairy just used up all of her coins that night when she flew by Polly’s pillow. But she was the nicest tooth fairy, how could she let the poor Polly be upset in the next morning? So instead of giving Polly coins, the tooth Fairy gave Polly some fairy dust that could turn things super BIG! She put the fairy dust in a fancy purple cloth bag with golden stars embroidered and put it under Polly’s pillow, secretly.
Chapter Two – The Unexpected
The next day, Molly (Polly and Molly rhythm right?), Polly’s best friend, invited Polly to go to a circus with her after school, where they saw a cotton candy stand. Of course, they would get some! But their money could only buy one. They picked the pink one, of course. Polly and Molly would share the cotton candy because they were best friends. However, Molly still thought this was not enough cotton candy for them. She was upset. Polly thought, thought and thought; then she had an idea! She could use her magic dust to make the cotton candy bigger! Polly sprinkled just a tiny teeny little on the cotton candy. But Molly said: “More! More! More!!!” Polly added more. The cotton candy really turns a little bit bigger! Polly and Molly were so thrilled!
“More, please!” Molly called.
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“Write on!” Short Story Contest “Cotton Candy Land” (3rd grade group) Polly added a little bit more dust on the cotton candy and it grew bigger, as big as a
double-sized cotton candy.
“More!” Molly was too excited to stop. “Are you sure?” Polly asked.
“Yeah! Please~~~!” Molly softly begged.
“Okay!” Polly said. Polly added more again, but she accidently added too much of the dust on the double-sized cotton candy. Just then, the cotton candy turned into a super duper big cotton candy, as big as an elephant! And then, the Giant Cotton Candy became alive! It turned to be a Monster and kept growing. It was crushing houses while it grew!!! Polly and Molly were more terrified than surprised, with their mouths wide open. The Cotton Candy Monster ran and ran. It ran out of the city to a field, where there appeared a giant magical elevator that went up to the sky into the clouds. Polly and Molly were so curious that they secretly followed the Monster and rode on the elevator.
Chapter Three – Cotton Candy Land
The giant elevator rose higher and higher into the sky. Polly and Molly had no idea about where they were going to be, they just hold their breath and waited to see what would happen. After a long time of ride, the elevator stopped and the very soft door opened. Out jumped the Cotton Candy Monster. Polly and Molly followed him and were stunned by what they saw: A Cotton Candy Land! Everything was made from cotton
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“Write on!” Short Story Contest “Cotton Candy Land” (3rd grade group) candy!!! Buildings, roads, trees, people, cars, even food and toys are all made of cotton
candy! This world would be so sweet!
Then things turned out to be not so sweet. There were screams and beeps everywhere in the Cotton Candy Land, people were threatened and cars were running crazily fast.
“What’s going on?” asked Polly.
“I don’t know”, Molly was also scared.
“It’s the Monster!” yelled Polly, “It is chasing people and cars and trying to eat them!”
“Oh NO! What can we do?” Molly almost cried.
How could Polly and Molly stop the crazy Monster and save the Cotton Candy Land? How could they keep themselves safe? How could they go back home?
Chapter Four – The Big Idea
Polly thought, thought, and thought, and said “Maybe we can eat the monster?” “We? Are you sure?” asked Molly.
“Yeah, what else can we do?” Polly called, “come on, let’s go to catch him, it is just Cotton Candy!”
Polly ran after the Cotton Candy Monster, Molly followed. They got closer and closer. Finally, Polly could reach one of his legs. Polly grabbed his leg, and took the biggest bite of it she ever had in her life. Molly followed Polly; she grabbed the other leg of the
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“Write on!” Short Story Contest “Cotton Candy Land” (3rd grade group) Monster’s and took her biggest bite ever. It was sweet! But the two brave girls had no
time to enjoy the delicious treat; they kept chewing and biting as fast as they could. The Cotton Candy Monster was still running but slowed down. Polly and Molly ate so much that they were so full and so exhausted. They couldn’t eat anymore! But they only ate a very small part of the Monster’s legs. There was also so much of the Monster left!
Just then, Polly felt something in her pocket – the magic dust! She immediately remembered that she could use it. But how? Polly thought, thought, and thought; then she had an idea. To make sure her idea is right, she asked to Molly:
“Molly, do you know what cotton candy is afraid of?”
“Cotton candy is made from Candy, so water? Cotton candy may shrink and be melted in water!” Molly was excited about her brilliant answer.
“That’s right! See the big cloud in the sky,” Polly pointed to the sky, and continued: “How about we use the magic dust to turn the cloud into super big size to let it make rain, so that the Cotton Candy Monster will shrink and be melted!”
“Great idea!” called Molly.
To reach the big cloud in the sky, Polly and Molly climbed to the top of a high tower which is also made from cotton candy. On the top of the tower, Polly still couldn’t reach the cloud. “Stand on my shoulder” said Molly. Polly climbed up Molly’s shoulder and carefully stood on it. She reached the cloud and put all of the magic dust she had left on the cloud. In no time, the cloud became its double size and flew right on the head of the Cotton Candy Monster. The clouds got so heavy, it started to rain! With a big lightning
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“Write on!” Short Story Contest “Cotton Candy Land” (3rd grade group) and thunder, it rained as pouring water on the Monster. A couple of minutes later, the
Cotton Candy Monster melted into a small piece of colored crystal sugar! The rain stopped, the Monster was gone, and the beautiful cotton candy land was saved!
Chapter Five – How Do We Get Home?
“How do we get home?” Molly asked. “Of course by the elevator that took us here” said Polly. The two girls found the giant elevator and rode on it down.
“Polly! Wake up! You are going to be late for school!” Polly’s mom called. Polly woke up. Oh, it was only a dream!
“Polly!” Molly, Polly’s best friend, yelled outside of Polly’s house, “Are you ready to school? I brought some cotton candy for you; we can share on our way to school.”
“I am coming!” Polly yelled back while she was searching something under her pillow. Her tooth was gone, she found a purple cloth bag with golden stars embroidered and filled with m-a-g-i-c d-u-s-t!
--The end--
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