Category: Lily’s Story

By Lily Liu

            Birds always had wings. They always flew. Even the very big birds like Ostriches flew. Yet some of them did not like the other kinds. The Ostrich was one of these. The Ostrich was proud of her pretty tail feathers.

            One day, there was a dispute. The dispute was about the annual trade festival, where every bird would go and trade one tail feather for another bird’s tail feather.  The Ostrich did not want to give a tail feather, only receive a tail feather.

            On the day of the trade festival, the Ostrich took grass-made tail feathers to trade. When she traded, she traded with everyone. “Now I have so many pretty tail feathers, and other birds have grass on them! The grass will fall off soon.” The Ostrich thought.

            The next day, though, the Ostrich was so heavy he could not lift himself off the ground! There were too many tail feathers and the Ostrich was too heavy!

            And to this very day, Ostriches still cannot fly.

By Lily Liu

Bear and Donut wanted to go floating! But there was a problem.

  “I don’t have a float!” Bear said, “How will we go floating without a float?”

  “Don’t worry, I don’t have a float either. You can use me as a float! I can hold you, and I can float, so you can ride me!” Donut exclaimed.

  So Bear and Donut went floating, with Bear sitting on top of Donut.

  “You’ll never have to worry, Bear. You have me! Donut.”

The river was only a mile away, but a mile was still a lot for Donut to walk.

  “My legs are getting tired,” Donut sighed, “Bear, can you walk?”

  “All right, I can walk. you can ride me.”

  So Bear walked the other half of the mile to Glorious Day River. “Now we can float! It is such a glorious da— it’s not day anymore!” Bear gasped.

  Even if it was not day, Bear and Donut went floating, and soon they were asleep.

  Donut woke up to the sound of rushing water. “Oh no! Bear it’s a waterfall!” Donut shouted.

  “Oh no!” Bear’s eyes popped open.

“Huh? River rafting? Donut! Are you trying to trick me?” Bear asked.

  “No, I’m not! There was a waterfall, and we were Donut-rafting and you were on top of me and suddenly we were all back at my house and I was so relieved!” Donut said.

  “Donut!” Bear laughed. “It was just a dream!”

  “Let’s go real rafting!” Bear stood up and blew up his rideable dolphin floatie.

  “Yeah, let’s!” Donut agreed and stood up too. Donut and blew up his otter floatie.

  So the two went rafting, and never again did this strange dream pop up. And they never ever saw that waterfall again.