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During the past few months I have been writing a Cinderella story. If you want to, it is below for you to read. I have also included a pod-cast of my favorite part. Well here is my story:

The Amazon Adventure

A Cinderella re-telling

once upon a time there was a little boy named Freddie. Freddie was a tall nice, nature and environment loving nine-year-old boy. He lived with his two mean, ill-mannered stepbrothers named Spencer and Franklin Dublin.

They lived in a cave deep in the Amazon Jungle. Just about everything in that cave was nice. They had a nice fireplace, a nice burner, nice straw pallets, and best of all they lived in a nice convenient place.

There were tons of trees to use as firewood, and plenty of animals to hunt for not only food, but the bones as well. Of course Freddie didn’t want to do any of this but he was forced to or else he couldn’t survive, because he was in the middle of the wilderness.

One day right before Freddie, Spencer and Franklin were going to hunt, a messenger came with a message.
The message said, “Meet at 24 longitude 36 latitude at 7:35 am tomorrow for a whole day trip around the Amazon River!”

The next morning Freddie asked his brothers, “Can I go?”

“No!” sneered the brothers “You can’t go, you aren’t proper like us! You stay and do the chores.” That made Freddie very, very sad. So as soon as his brothers had left and were out of sight Freddie crept into the woods and he started crying.

Suddenly he heard a rustling noise. Freddie got very tense and drew his knife, given to him as a gift when he was five. It had a sacred engraving on it, “May you go fourth and do many great things in the future.
“The rustling grew louder. Freddie started sweating. Finally the rustling stopped and out of the bushes came a strange man.

Freddie did not sheath his knife. The strange man said, “Who are you, laddie?”
Freddie replied. ‘I’m Freddie. Who are you?”

“Why,” the strange man said, “I’m Bear Grylls, wild life explorer.”

“Wow!” said Freddie.

“Mr.Grylls, can you get me to the Amazon Adventure in five minutes?” Freddie asked.

“Sure, what’s the address?” he asked.

“24 Longitude by 36 Latitude.” Freddie said defiantly.

“Well sure I can, but you have to be back by 5:30 PM,” he said.

“It’s a deal!” Freddie said.

A couple of minutes later, they arrived at the dock just as the boat was leaving.

“Thank you so, so, so, so much Mr. Grylls!”

So Freddie got on the boat and sat down across from his stepbrothers, who didn’t recognize him one bit, thanks to Mr. Grylls and his dirt disguise. The dirt disguise was a layer of dirt over his face to make him look older than he was.

As the boat sailed down the Amazon River, Freddie saw amazing things, such as flowers, nutmeg trees, mountains and the fascinating river life.

At about 12:45 the boat docked 33 miles from where it left. Freddie and the other passengers got off the boat and stared in awe. Ahead of them was the most beautiful valley they had ever seen! With flowers and trees of all sort.

The captain of the canoe said in a very baritone voice, “You may stuff your self with all the food you want. But stay away from that bunch of plants and trees over there. They’re poisonous.”

The passengers yelled with joy and completely stuffed themselves. About 45 minutes later they got back on the boat for the ride back to the dock.

The boat arrived at the dock at about 5:00 and all the passengers got off the boat. The second they got off the boat a jaguar attacked them. Freddie was the only armed one so he drew his knife and battled the jaguar to the death. It was a close battle but finally with scratches and bruises all over his body Freddie killed the jaguar.

Freddie looked at the sun. It was almost 5:25! He left the jaguar with his knife protruding out of it and ran home. He got there at 5:29. Oh no, he forgot his knife with the sacred engraving on it!

Soon after, his brothers got home and told him about the greatness of the ride. “Tomorrow they are going to gather all the people who went on the trip to see who owns the knife.”

So the next day his brothers and Freddie went to the dock he remembered so well from his battle with the jaguar the day before. Freddie was the only one who could recite the engraving! His brothers and the other participants of the expedition were flabbergasted.

Soon after that outstanding day, Freddie and Bear Grylls went to live together in a cave next to the valley that the Amazon Adventure boat docked at about a month ago. As for the brothers, they stayed in the cave and wept till they couldn’t weep no more.

The End

Here is a pod-cast of the first two lines of the story.

 

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