It's Susanna Leonard Hill's 6th Annual Valentiny Writing Contest

 

It's Susanna Leonard Hill's 6th Annual Valentiny Writing Contest

To enter it, I need to write a story about being brave and it needs to be no more than 214 words. That's because the Valentiny Contest is about Valentine's Day which is on 2/14. 

The title of my story is "Six Secret Valentines" and it is exactly 214 words long since the words in the title do not count toward the total of 214 words. Here it is:

                                              SIX SECRET VALENTINES

Six members of the Alleycats Book Club sat in their clubhouse. “If none of us sent these Valentines,” said Jen, “who did?”

Each Valentine had a different alphabet letter scrawled on its envelope.

“Let’s see,” said Tim. “The letters are — w, k, n, i, e, and d.”

“‘W k n i e d’ spells nothing,” said Joe.

“Let’s think about it,” said Autumn. “We all found a hand-made Valentine on our porch. Someone delivered them late at night. They know about our club.”

Jen shivered. “That’s scary.”

“There are no other children around here,” said Tim.

“Wait a minute,” said Liz. “I saw a light in the old haunted house on the corner.”

“Maybe someone our age lives there,” said Mariah.

 “Tim and I will be brave and go look around,” said Joe.

“No we won’t,” said Tim.

“We’ll all go,” said Liz.

They walked toward the old house and hid in the nearby bushes. A little girl sang as she colored Valentines near a kitchen window.

 “Let’s go back to the clubhouse,” whispered Autumn. “I figured out her name using the six letters. It’s either ‘new kid’ or ‘Wendi K’.”

 “Good,” said Liz. “We’ll make special Valentines for Wendi K. and sneak them on her porch. She might become our newest Alleycat member.”