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Today, This Is Abi's Blog

5/24/2012

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Well, it was bound to happen.  My neglect of this blog has resulted in a full-blown rebellion.  The Internet elves have gathered together, taken a vote, and decided that this space will be far better used by more diligent, more interesting, and vastly more attractive people than myself. 

So for the next week or so, this blog will now belong to a series of very smart and even more awesome grade schoolers who participated in the book club I ran for their school.  Over the course of the club, about the last three months, each of these students devoted herself or himself to writing, revising, and editing a piece of writing from the club with the intent of being published here.  I made clear that anyone featured here would have to produce a truly excellent written piece (a rule that I excuse in regard to myself).  That is exactly what each did.

So today allow me to welcome you to the blog of Abigail, who I and other very lucky people are allowed to call Abi, and to the first public description of a newly discovered species: the Torpion.  The following is a transcript of Abi's description of the Torpion without any editing or adjustment on my part whatsoever--so she gets all the credit.  (Oh, and I should also admit that she taught me how to spell tarantula correctly.)

*****

Torpion

by
Abi


The Torpion is a small but deadly creature.  It is EVIL!  It is covered in little tiny hairs like a tarantula, it can also fly.  It smells like this special perfume.  When someone smells the perfume they fall into a deep sleep.  When they wake up they are under the Torpion's control.  The more the Torpion catches the more likely it is to take over the world.  It sounds like a baby croc crying to it's mother.  It has a tail like a scorpion.  It has ten eyes and three legs.  It hast two arms like a scorpion.  It eats fish called minos and for a treat it eats small birds and bugs.

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Alaura
5/25/2012 05:39:20 pm

Good job Abi!!!!! Good story!!!

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Jean Asay
5/30/2012 12:25:21 pm

It is good to be published. Keep up the good work

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