By: Katelyn Wei

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Derek who lived in a red barn next to a clear blue lake. His father was a fisherman and fished at the same lake he lived by. Normally he would keep his haul back to the barn to let the dog, Eleanor, smell whether it was fresh or not. His father would eat some of it with Derek and sell the rest. One day, he built a shed by the lake and kept the leftover fish there to wait for other fishermen to trade. However, Derek did not know that.

One day Derek decided to play by the lake until he smelled a terrible odor. “Ew… what is that funny smell?” he exclaimed, and fled back to the barn. The next day, he went to the lake with Eleanor. She sniffed and traced the scent to the shed. “That’s strange that was never there before,” said Derek. “I must push it into the late, but how?” He and Eleanor tried pushing and pulling the reeking shed into the lake. They both fell into the lake and were weary, so Derek brought a horse. He rode on the horse who started charging towards the shed and turned around and kicked it with its legs. The shed finally fell into the lake.

After it was dusk, Derek’s father came back home and had water dripping all over the floor and his body. “Derek did you push the shed into the lake?” he asked in a chilling tone. “Yes father,” said Derek, “And I am telling the truth just like how George Washington broke his father’s favorite cherry tree and confessed. He didn’t get into trouble.” “But Derek, his father wasn’t in the cherry tree,” said his father. Derek’s skin turned as white as a ghost. The next thing he knew, he too was drenched because his father had thrown him into the lake.