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"Mittens is a brave little kitty. He is black, and his paws are white. He loves to travel around the world!"

"Once upon a time, there was a princess named Lou, and she had one sister and one brother, and she lived in a castle in a place called London."

"Let me tell you a little about me. I am a detective. I work on a lot of murders, but usually they’re easy to solve."

"My name is Haven Shelly Dean. I’m thirteen years old. My father sold me for a new house and a flock of sheep. Now I live as a servant for the Queen of England."

"I had a quail who drank ginger ale / and always got the mail."

"When the driver announced that Laura had arrived, she was ecstatic. Then the driver took out her folder of records, and her grin turned into a sour frown. That record held all the things…

"Clarice was running up the stairs of the old abandoned building. Suddenly a dark figure jumped out of the blackness."

"When Mr. Big Head was a little kid, his parents told him not to get so angry. But did he listen? No. Mr. Big Head is an angry man."

"Once there was this pig named Kograt. He was 1,000 years old and very young for a pig."

"In New York City, Maria and the dragons were fooling around in Maria’s new room. They were making a mess and knocked a mug off a dresser, and it was a mug that Maria…

"Hugo reaches his hand out to mine. Our fingers touch and stay like that. It may be the happiest moment of my life, if M. Clément hadn’t just stormed in the room."

"What in the world was happening!!! Everything seemed blurry. I was trying to take in my surroundings, so I went and grabbed onto something."

"Today I was going to the beach. Then I realized something, something very strange. I saw dead bodies wash up to shore and slowly come to life."

"Screech!!! The truck with the panda inside was finally here. Oh right, I forgot. My name is Eve, and I work at the AAC (Awesome Animal Center)."

"Above the mountains I can see / The flowers blooming for you and me?

"The opposite of the night, / Drapes a shimmery white, / A plant of bright dark green, / Nothing you've ever seen"

"Once upon a time, there was a girl named Lily. Lily was seven years old. She lived in Paris. Lily’s parents had work that was very bad because they got $10 per hour."

"Great, I missed the late bell for chorus and Miss Loxern will be mad because I stayed to feed a stupid, stupid hamster. I can hear her from here, saying, 'Quiet, please. Single file…

"One day a very nice man came to his house right next door to my house. His name was Alexander. He never robbed and never bullied people."

"Hello, I am a unicorn. Well, sort of!! I am in the slammer. I am a unicat to be exact! I got put here after I used my dark magic to hypnotize a man…

"Hi! Sorry I scared you there. My name is the Crime Kitty. No, it actually isn’t. My name is Cuddles! I am a black, fluffy, tiny kitty, but I have a dark side."

"There is a baby bunny named Lucy, and her mom is a bunny named Urwut, and her daddy’s name is Simon. Lucy wants a baby sister to take care of like a mom."

"The family woke up, because the bad guys opened the door and hid behind the door. The family came down and saw the bad guys hiding behind the door, one in the mom’s room…

"My name is Universe. I like the possibility of infinity. Infinity means the highest number possible, which I like to say means anything is possible."

"Hello, my name is Cornpuf, and I am a pink fluffy unicorn. After being banned from Rainbow Republic -- my original home -- forever, we started a new life in the sun, since we…

"Hi. My name is Rebecca Rainbow. I am a rainbow, if you’re curious. I hate pink fluffy unicorns. Oh, you don’t know why? I’ll tell you."

"Tom, Steve, and Bob were driving a car. But the gas ran out in three seconds. So, Bob went to get money."

"It all started when you got to school. You practically dropped your e-book when she told you."

"This is the ship that the Humbug owned. He was an immensely rich Humbug. But he was also a thief."

"Once upon a time there was a bunny, and he had a friend. The bunny had no name. His friend was a piece of paper, who also didn’t have a name."

"On a February morning, everyone was crowding, waiting for the opening ceremony of the new and only diamond shop in town. My name is Jake, and I’m the owner of the shop."

"A note from Stickman: Hi, my name is Stickman, and I am the richest person in the world! Not to brag or anything… but today I will tell you how by going in this…

"On a dwarf planet called Ceres, there was a telephone booth. No one knew how it got there. It was just there. No one used the telephone booth. The telephone booth did not want…

"It was 10:00 am in San Francisco, and our main character, Angel, was getting out of bed and ready for the day. The sun was shining, and the birds were chirping. It was a…

"A simple stroke makes a lovely blue vase / Evergreen fields made up of a soft pencil"

"Gummy Bear is a red gummy bear in a stinky cardboard box in the jail cell of a pirate ship. He’s thinking it smells bad and hoping he could get out."

"Once upon a time there lived a girl named Lea. She lived in Toronto, Canada. Every night Lea had always dreamed of owning a unicorn, but she was bullied at school for believing that…

"Once I was with my mom, sister, and dad. My sister and dad were ahead a lot. My mom and I were behind."

"One day Alex was going to work as an astronaut. He was helping them build a spaceship they would soon go to space in. And today was the test for who was going to…

"Guy and Cactus are punching each other in zero gravity floating in space. They are right above the moon. They’re waiting for a shuttle than can take them to Uranus."

"So, I am a game show host, and I’m kind of the funny one. I announce the winner -- not you! Okay?"

"Once upon a time there was a gingerbread man. It started raining, but it wasn’t raining regular rain -- it was raining frosting. The gingerbread man, whose name was Melanie, ate the frosting while…

"A ketchup packet named Lucas went to the ketchup pool, and he was all red, and people thought he was covered in blood, so they took him to the hospital."

"Vapor the Fennec Fox was sitting on a rock when suddenly a No-fur with a stick came over to him. Vapor knew that sticks were dangerous, so he started running as fast as he…

"Sharpclaw soared through the sky. Finally, free, he thought. Sharpclaw looked behind him at the army chasing him."

"Hi there! Rosie here. And I’m going to tell you the famous tale of how I came across the bird that showed me the meaning of life: Have no mercy."

"Some guy died on the freeway, and my dad was late picking me up. I think it was some biker who got hit. My dad says he drove past a bike and a white…

"Meanwhile, a bad robber named Harry Kane left his house and headed over to the jail. At the jail, he let 100,000,000 other robbers out."

"I just went to the office in the main hall at my school. Then I came back to the hall, and the Candy for Gratitude was gone. I’m sure I saw it was there…

"A small mirror the size of a piece of paper floated in front of me. It swung. I ducked. It plunged. I screamed. Luckily, the mirror protected me."

"Jake ran as the nightmarish creatures followed him, their horrible screeches cutting through the still night air like knife grating on stone. Jake felt drops of sweat fall on the stony ground as he…

"Coke / Diet, Zero, and regular / The great flavor, / Sizzling down your throat"

"One day in X-City, there were three Friendly Monsters, and one was a baby. The baby’s name was Goo Goo, and Goo Goo wanted to have a flower on her head."

"One night, the boy Jack was reading in his room, when the smell of his grandma's brownies replaced the plain, old, airy smell. Just a month before, his pops died."

"There was a boy named Peter. He went surfing, and a big wave came and washed him away, and he was never found again for three years."

"The banana’s face was a little face on the banana peel. On all of the sides, the banana had emotions. On one side it was sad, on the other side it was happy, and…

"Once upon a time, there was a mermaid. She used to always sing with her sisters, and it was by far the most beautiful sound she had ever heard."

"No, it was just the wind. No no no! Please no! But his mate’s body was lifeless as stone. Blue, his daughter, buried her nose in her mother's flank."

"The prince decided to go to the adoption center to get a cat and dog. On his way to the adoption center, he heard something crawl through the bushes. He ignored it."

"Spring has sprung, spring has sprung / I hear that chant from everyone"

"Jessica is hosting a perfectly calm birthday sleepover at her house until her mother hears 'Ahhhh!' She gets nervous, so she quickly runs upstairs to us."

"One day in Southern Foodafonia, the King of the Hot Dog Empire called a meeting with the Lord of Hambergria."

"Crash is the sound I hear. I quickly grab my brother. He was hit in the crash. I throw him out my door just before I get out."

"There once was a bowl of ramen named Olivia Kokoefer. Olivia, no matter what, would never eat bread or sandwiches cut diagonally. Never."

"Glooey Glob is a very weird alien, as you probably already know. He's green, like normal aliens, and his name is Glooey Glob."

"In a world very, very far away, there lived an alien named AL. He was a very good Sweed, the species of alien. One day, he was in Sweed’s camp for boys. They were…

"Once there were five girls. They were sisters. They weren’t just sisters. They were orphans, too."

"I can't believe this is happening to me. I'm in the girl’s bathroom panicking! There is no way I'm going to make it through eighth grade."

"Do you know the time when unicorns used to exist? Well, I know when. So this is the story: once I was dreaming about some unicorns -- I saw unicorns flying in the air."

"Orange and blue / They make a sound rattle rattle"

"Now as he looked at me, I had a gush of anger. The jock that punched my brother was Jeff, the popular athlete, and he had a huge crush on me. Everyone knew that."

"I’m Cloud, the only male wolf in the Best Pack Anyone Could Wish For - although Storm, my sister, said we might want to change our pack’s name and Emily, my best friend, seems…

"Wendell and Monico Milk Goats were at the art museum. It looked cool on the outside. It was golden and ancestors were etched on the sides. They were ancestors of gods."

"Detective Frog was looking into the murder of Ribit Wonton, the wealthiest frog in Frogville (some monkeys lived here too). Detective Frog went to the scene of the murder in the biggest place in…