the chandellier

Jane was crying while Mark was hugging her, he could not believe what she had told him, it was impossible. William tried to catch those frightened eyes that had scared her friend, but he couldn´t.
They had met at University 5 years ago and since then they used to travel every summer together. But the last holidays were the last ones. They went to Peru, to Machu Pichu because Jane and Mark loved that place. William rented a big house, “it´s too big” thought Jane when they arrived, however she never told this to the boys.
At night, Mark and William went to a pub to play pool, Jane hated it, so she stayed at home preparing dinner, she cooked very well. Jane always prepared meat, but also salad because Mark was a vegetarian. Vegetables were outside the house, so she had to go outside to pick up lettuce. She was very attentive because she was a frightening girl, she pick up the vegetables and entered the house. It was impossible. The door was closed and the windows too. Jane started to shout but no one heard her. A shadow aproached her holding a chandellier that allowed Jane to see him. He had a white skin like snow and big teeth that showed to her. He moved slowly and calmly that made Jane more nervous. She couldn´t move, she saw him sliding but not touching the floor. She was in shock.
When Mark and William arrived, they saw Jane shaking near the trees shouting `help´ and asking for Edgard.
By Ani

A Christmass without presents.

One of the worst moments of my life just happened a few days before Christmas. In those days everybody was decorating their houses with a lot of colours and lights, while preparing the details for the party. Everybody was doing that including my family and I.

That day, my mum had the idea to go shopping to buy presents for the rest of my family. We went to the shopping centre and wandered looking for and buying some gifts. Then, when we finished, we came back home.

The next day in the afternoon, two thieves got into my house and took our money and other things, among them, the presents!!! So, for Christmas my family didn´t receive any presents.

In the end, during the party, we told the story to everybody and we were grateful to be able to share this so special day without gifts but in family.

I’m too young for prison.

 I had never been so scared in my entire life: I thought I would be sent to prison. It was a couple of days after New Year’s Eve and I had loads of firecrackers and fireworks left. 

 I invited my friend Jack and we went to an abandoned supermarket to play with the fires. At first everything was alright: we exploded a couple of chairs and an old machine, and we broke a part of the wall. Then we found an old fire extinguisher and Jack decided to make it explode. I still don’t know how he did it, but he took many of the biggest crackers and fifteen minutes later he shouted at me: “Run!”. We hid behind a column and heard one of the louder explosions ever. We were laughing our heads off. 

 After some seconds of silence, the building started to shake, every time harder and harder. We ran away as fast as we could and only turned back when we were 50 meters away. We couldn’t believe our eyes: the building was coming down in front of us. “We are criminals” Jack said with almost no breath. “There is a policeman there. Run! Run!” I shouted. 

 That night Jack stayed at home but he ate nothing and he didn’t sleep. Neither did I. The next morning, we were watching TV and we were still nervous. We heard at the local news that the supermarket we saw had been demolished the previous day for the construction of a new square: I never felt as relieved as that moment.  

The adventurous Chuck

It was the worst holiday that Chuck had ever had. He had never been to a place in the Argentinian coast, but he went to Las Toninas that summer. He thought that it would be a great place to meet lots of people but he was wrong.
At first, when he arrived at Las Toninas, he didn’t see people. He had gone by bike and alone, so he wanted to meet people to have fun. Suddenly a man appeared, he said that he was a hotel owner and gave Chuck a map of Las Toninas and said that his hotel was the best of the coast. He didn’t have money, because in the way a girl had stolen from him, but he decided to go to the hotel. When he arrived, the strange man received him with a smile, and while he was entering the hotel a group of men appeared and started to hit him. After a while, he managed to escape and run away from this place.
When he arrived home he started to cry because he was afraid and he didn’t understand why those bad men had hit him in that strange place.




By Catriel.

The worst holidays I have ever had

It was the worst holiday I have ever had. I went to La Lucila del Mar in December, hoping to meet new friends, but I met a nasty guy: his name was Paul and he was 17.
At first we were friends. The first time we met , he was playing a football match on the beach. After a few days, I got used to going to his home at night. I met his girlfriend, his brother and his parents. But one day there was nobody at Paul's home, except for himself and I. Suddenly, he took a knife from the kitchen and stole my mobile phone and my money. Then, he kicked me off his home.
In the end, I had to come back to Burzaco because I had no money, but I promise I'll find him some day and I'll take revenge.

Prom Night

I will never forget the night that was supposed to be one of the best nights of my life. It was the night of my graduation party but it ended up being a horrible experience. The thing is, I never made it to the party!

We were going by car and the traffic was stuck. To make things worse we were already running late. I was hysterical and my dad, who was driving, was really nervous. As soon as the cars in the front of us started to move and cleared the street my dad speeded and without us noticing, a car appeared out of nowhere and hit us in the front.

Luckily, nothing happened to any of us, but our car wouldn't start. Someone called 911 and the police came immediatly, but all I wanted was to get out of there to go to my party!

Obviously, I couldn't. At least not until the police let us go, after everything was fixed and alright. And that wasn't until five hours later. If I could, I'd have left earlier, but they made me stay. When we were finally free, I went to my party, but only to find out that it had ended a few hours earlier.

The end.

By Ami.

Aquamarine H2O

Last summer I went to Indonesia with my family. We arrived there on January 8th, we used that day to have a rest in the hotel. The next day I woke up very early, and my sister and I went to the “Spring Beach”, that beach had been discovered in 1987. The founders said that it was a very strange beach, that it had the whitest sand that anyone had ever seen and that the fish had the most strange skin in the ocean. So we decided to visit it. There weren’t any people on the beach.

We were sleeping, and we felt something rare on our feet, we woke up and we saw a very big fish with a body of a girl, it was a mermaid. We started to shout, and the mermaid too. When we calmed down she or that thing said to us “hello” and we started to talk about our life, and who we were.

Then my mother, father, and my two brothers arrived there, and they met the mermaid. Her name was Aquamarin. She fell in love with my little brother and he did too, (they have the same age), their confession was in their eyes. She needed to be a real human being to be with him. And my sister and I started to gather information “how to be a mermaid and a real human”. They had to kiss each other.

The days passed and there were only two left. They kissed each other and she became a very beautiful girl. We decided to take her with us, to come back to Argentina.

She adapted here very well, she goes to my school, and my brother and Aqua are still together nowadays.


The End



By Agustina Claps

A not lovely Anniversary.

As he was entering the house, the heavy dark smoke and the smell of burnt chicken getting out of the kitchen frigthened him. That day was his first marriage anniversary and his wife was going to cook her husband’s favourite dish so as to celebrate their love.

The man ran desperately to the kitchen. When he stepped into the room his face turned completely white as he saw his lovely wife on the floor and a pond of blood around her right hand. She was shaking violently while she was holding her arm. Her husband took her and realised she had cut her right thumb with a knife she was using.

None of the two spoke, both were so impressed that they could not say a word. Suddenly, a strong voice shouted, ‘Cut, good footage’ while all the producers of the flim were clapping the actress and actor ‘s performances.

The End

By Laura.