Here is one of the stories I made in primary school. Caution-don't read after eating!!

Bollin and the Ring By Leah age 11

500 years in the future, in a gloomy unkempt caravan lived an old frumpy tramp that went by the name of Bollin. In Bollin's caravan (well not quite Bollin's caravan) it was a disgrace. There were food scraps everywhere. The wallpaper was grey and was hanging to the wall by a thread. The sofa had holes and ripped grey material. The beds were filthy and had springs poking out at odd angles. It was a mess. Behind every door was a worse sight. It had never been cleaned. As the days went by it got dirtier and dirtier. It had slapdash curtains, a sink clogged with hair and a busted TV. Bollin shared his 'house' with a gang of sewer rats. It stank! The toilet pipes had burst and Bollin had never noticed it!

He just kept using the loo.

The head sewer rat, Rumplepuss the Mumpleruss, had turned up biting Bollin's toenails. They were yellow, mouldy, decaying toenails. Bollin liked it when Rumplepuss bit his toenails because the fungi on Rumple puss's teeth tickled his toes.

Bollin was on his way to the market to (steal mouldy vegetables) when Rumplepuss jumped out and gave him his stolen shoes made out of cabbage leaves. Inside the cabbage leaves for shoes was a diamond ring.

"Where on earf did you get 'Vis from Rumplepuss?" said Bollin, deep in shock. Rumplepuss just stood on his back legs and grinned his fungi grin. "Feef!" shouted Bollin. Unfortunately, the gypsies next door heard. "Run!" Bollin declared. He grabbed the ring and ran with Rumplepuss.

"Dawn't warry. That caravan weren't mine anyway!" he yelled and scuttled off. He rubbed the ring and said, "Got you my treasure!" a beam of light shot out of the ring. "Waah!" screeched Bollin. A tiny little fairy burst out of the ring. "Sir freed me!" yelped the fairy. "I shall repay …………" "Bollin" said Bollin. "Bollin" said the fairy.

So Bollin had another friend to take on his journey to nowhere special.

He was stealing mouldy vegetables from the market when he bumped into someone...

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Drawing by Leah.

Bollin and the Ring continued By Leah age 11

The next second someone yelled; "My ring" the stranger yelled, "You, you stole my ring!" Bollin ran (over the hills, through sheep filled fields), for hours until his feet could no longer carry him. He fell to the ground (on a cow pat, actually!) and was exhausted. He slept for a while.

Days passed while Bollin slept soundly. "Get up you old tramp!" The next thing he knew, an old farmer was kicking him. He hid the ring and ran. "And good riddance!" the farmer screamed after him.

Bollin was talking to the fairy again. He somehow found out that the fairy would grant him a wish. He wished for more wishes. Now he had five wishes to be granted. He used one wish to have enough to buy a MacDonald's three times a day. He wished for some new clothes and he wished for a new car. He wished to be rich! Now there was only one wish left. "Uh" Bollin thought, "awnly wan wish left!"

Bollin wished to be king.

He was in a posh castle with servants "Whoo, iym Kin!" He yelled. He went outside, he was walking through a crowd.

Wait, that crowd was the PRESS

"WHOO HA!" Bollin yelled. His lungs burst. He was rushed into A & E at the speed of light.

The ground started shaking. Bollin (and the surgeons) got up and went outside. It felt like the earth was violently swinging from side to side. Bollin felt sick. In the distance some things were coming towards them. Slowly, getting faster, getting faster. Whatever it was it was coming at an over average speed. Houses were demolished, buildings were destroyed. The mysterious mystical creatures were getting closer...

There was a blood curdling, piercing scream. It came from somewhere in the hospital Bollin was in. These mysterious animals, they were ……. "Rats!" The surgeon screamed and ran. But it was too late. The rats had trampled her then ripped her innocent yelping head off. Bollin was fine though; he was riding on this rats back. It was Rumplepuss. Rumplepuss and his fungi teeth, Rumplepuss, Bollin's best friend. My had he grown!

Bollin realized that he recognised these rats as the rats that shared someone's caravan with Bollin.

The rats ran with him but it was too late. Bollin needed those lungs to survive, but they had burst.

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