Bridie's+Short+Stories

** Task 1- Little Red Riding Hood **
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Beginning-** There was a little girl, who was known around town as Little Red Riding Hood, after her mother made her a cape with a hood, which she wore everywhere. Little Red Riding Hood and her Mum are at their house near the woods. Her Grandma is in her own house lying in her bed because she is sick.
 * Problem-** Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is ill so her Mum tells her to take a basket of goodies to her but tells her to stay on the path and not to talk to strangers. A wolf jumps out of the bushes and asks where she is going. The wolf doesn’t eat her right then because there are woodchoppers around and they might hear her yelling. Little Red Riding Hood told him where she was going and where it was.
 * Minor Resolution-** He tells Little Red Riding Hood they will have a race to grandmother’s house, and he sets off on a shorter path and runs as fast as he can and Little Red Riding Hood,

** Task 2- Mary Had A Little Lamb **
Mary had a lamb. He followed her everywhere she went. One day he followed her to school. The children laughed and played, but school was no place for a lamb. The teacher told Mary to take him home. Mary bought a fence and a gate and the lamb never followed her again.

Task 3- Runaway
“I’ve never seen anything like that before!” Gary shouted excitedly. Bob was taking his pet Lizard, Charlie, to school for show and tell. The lizard was blue with red spots and had the tiniest lizard eyes. He had put on a bit of weight lately but Bob just thought that was normal. Bob had found Charlie in his back garden one day, while he was pulling the weeds out. Bob had been waiting for weeks to take Charlie into show and tell. Bob walked proudly into class with his cardboard brown box. He sat at his desk like he usually does and waited for the bell. ‘BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!’ rang the bell. His teacher Miss Johnson walked in with a bright and happy smile on her face. “Good morning class, are you all ready for show and tell?” “Yes Miss Johnson,” said all the kids together. Bob waited until he was the last one, that way everyone would be listening. As he jumped up, he knocked his box over and the lid fell off. Charlie scurried away before anyone could catch him. “OH NO!!” shouted Bob. The kids all joined in to help find Charlie but it was no use. Jennifer, one of the kids in Bob’s class, had left the door open and Charlie probably would have run out of it by now. “Oh, come and look at this everybody!!” shouted John, another boy in Bob’s class. He had found Charlie and a tiny baby lizard. “I guess Charlie is Charlotte now!!” said Miss Johnson. The whole class laughed and Bob thought it was quite funny too.

Task 4- Freeze
“Hurry up Timothy or you will miss the bus!” shouted Timothy’s Mum. He mutters the word under his breath and it happens again. Ever since he was involved in a car accident he has had powers. All Timothy knows is that when he says ‘Freeze’ time stops and he is the only one who is able to move. All he has to do when he wants to unfreeze time is say ‘Go’ and time starts again. He can do whatever he wants but surely there must be some catch. While time is frozen, Timothy showers and makes his bed and brushes his teeth. As Timothy walks out the door, his Mum says “Geez Tim, you got ready fast!” He laughs to himself. He gets outside and stands at the bus stop waiting for the bus with his little sister Jane. “Oh no! I have a project due today and I forgot all about it.” ‘Freeze,’ he mutters under his breath. Tim rushes inside and quickly throws something together about Volcanoes. Outside everyone is frozen and he can see the bright yellow school bus at the corner. He runs back outside with his project and says “Go.” Jumping on the bus, he trips up the stairs. Quickly before anyone sees him he says “Freeze, rewind 10 seconds.” Time is rewound back 10 seconds and no one ever knows what happened in those 10 seconds. This time he walks slowly up the bus stairs and doesn’t trip. He walks down the back of the bus and sits with all his friends. They laugh and joke about Timothy’s admirer, Sally. She has liked him ever since she met him. Every morning as he walks past her on the bus she says “Hi Timothy,” and giggles if he looks at her. They hop off the bus and the bell rings so they all run into class as fast as they can. Timothy sits at his desk next to Sally. The teacher has them all put into specific places so that they can all get their work done without being distracted. It’s time for Timothy’s project, but when he goes to get his project out of his bag, it isn’t there. ‘Oh no! Where was the last place I had it?’ He remembers showing it to his friends and then putting it on the seat beside him. ‘I MUST HAVE LEFT IT ON THE BUS!!’ he thinks. “Freeze, rewind 30” he says to himself quietly but this time something strange happens. Time freezes and rewinds, but not to where he expected. He’s at school still but it’s different. He looks around and he sees someone he recognises but he doesn’t know where from. “Oh my god!” It’s his mum when she was Timothy’s age. He hasn’t gone back 30 minutes. He’s gone back 30 years. He has no idea what went wrong but it must be bad. He try’s to remember what the man told him when he first got his powers. “Fast forward!” He goes back to sitting in his seat at school. He was so scared that he never said those three words again.