Anybody think this is good? We will be reading the Monkey's Paw tomorrow, one of the first three-wishes-gone-bad stories every written. I'd like you to start your own three-wishes story in your writing journals today. (Journal #10) Start in today's writing piece by figuring out how you get the wishes. Put a modern twist on it. Examples: do you wake up to your cell phone buzzing announcing you have three wishes,? do you open your locker at school, and they fall out? Do you go through a drive-through window and you're told you have three wishes? You're choice. Just start this piece today - try to fill a page in your writing journal (DO NOT TURN IN - in your journal only). Be creative I look around the market trying to see what I should buy when I come around a table with “magic Items.” Now I’m 16 I know that magic isn’t real, but I couldn’t help myself. I felt drawn to one particular object or paw I should say. I could see the merchant looking at me to the monkey's paw. I felt ridiculous asking this but I wanted to know: “What does this do? As in like magic? “Ah this is a rare artifact only known as the wisher curse.” Everyone who has ever owned it-” he stops. “Everyone who has ever owned it will get 3 happy wishes, and live happily ever after.” he smiled. “So there is a genie in there?” I asked. No, there is not, but I will give it to you for 50 euros if you want. I thought about it, and 50 euros for a monkey's paw? I wanted to say no, but then the merchant lowered the price to 15 euros. I agreed and he gave me a bag for the monkey's paw and I paid him some of my work money. Not exactly how I thought I would spend my money, I thought. Before I left the merchant whispered something to his employee: “She doesn’t even know half of it.” but before I could ask what that meant my phone rang and my mom was calling, probably to ask where in the world am I. When I got home the first thing I did was go directly to my room and lock my door. I slid down to my soft carpet and opened my bag to where the monkey's paw layed. I grabbed it and held it into my hands and examined it very closely. Before I could even make a “wish” my mom banged on my door. “Ayán! Unlock your door! I sighed and wished she would just leave me alone for once. I unlocked the door and expected her to be there in her pajamas and have a look that could kill anyone. I opened the door but she was nowhere to be found. “Mom!” I yelled. No answer. I left my room and looked at our apartment. I looked in her room, no one. I looked in the bathroom, the kitchen, the closet, the tiny hallway, she wasn’t there! She was just there, I thought! I gasped the monkey's paw! I still had it in my hand without realizing. I thought back to what could have made my mom disappear. It's not like I said I wished for her to disappear I only said just to leave me alone. Wait another word for leave is to disappear! I just poofed my mom! I wish my mom was still here! I said. Nothing. “Sweetie I’m home!” “Mom!” I sighed with relief. I gave her a hug. I looked at her and that wasn’t my mom! “Who are you!” “Why, I am your mom. “No you're not!” “Your green!” “And you have blood dripping down your shirt!” “But that’s not my fault, you killed me, then I came back, but with downfalls.” she smiled. I still had the monkey's paw in my hand, I wished I never bought you! I said. Something happened when I said. A dark, and green portal came out of nowhere and was swallowing everything in our apartment! “What’s happening! I yelled. You just wished you never bought it, it deceives you like that, if you aren’t alive then you can’t buy anything! “What!” “That's not what I meant!” Just then the green swallowed everything including my mom and me. All I saw was darkness then BAM!

The end by Alana!