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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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Elizabeth Lyman

Winter at the Ocean

Editor's Note: This piece will be presented at the Winter Tales productions of Vermont Stage Company, Dec 3-7 at FlynnSpace. Reading on this podcast and during the performance is Liz Gilbert, an 8th grade actress at U-32. To hear all the Winter Tales podcasts as they will sound at the shows, click here.

Winter at the Ocean

By Elizabeth Lyman
Mater Christi School, Grade 3

When it comes to winter at the ocean
the days are dark
and gloomy
and the wind howls
calling for the winter holiday to start.
In the night the waves
CRASH!
like lightening cracking the sky open
and clouds blowing through the sky.
It's like the clouds are touching the ground.

Shiny Stone

Shiny Stone

By Elizabeth Lyman
Mater Christi, Grade 2

I am walking in the grass.
I see something,
something smooth,
black,
shiny,
wet.
It soothes my skin as I touch it.
It feels like a furry blanket
wrapping aroung my arm,
like a snake squeezing my body.
It is dark but shiny
like a pearl in a dark cave.
The stone is alone now.

Snowflake in the Sky

Snowflake in the Sky
By Elizabeth Lyman
Mater Christi, Grade 2

Snowflake in the sky
how you
glitter
how you
fly,
through the
gray dawn sky
shining like a
silk cloth
spread
across
the sky,

landing on the ground
where other snowflakes
lie,
white as
crystals,
still ice cold,
melting in the
sun.
Are they all the same?
No
because
no one is the same,

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