• "Donna, lunch!" Mom screamed. Donna slammed her notebook closed and ran out into the puny kitchen.
    "Donna, don't let this whole house boat thing get you down." she said. This was their first day on their new houseboat, and Donna wanted to be back home with her pets and her friends. "You were alright with moving!" she said.
    "I said I was alright with dad moving!" Donna pouted. "I never said that I wanted to move with him!" Her dad was an alcoholic, and was usually drunk.
    "Try not to let this get you down. Why don't you go for a swim."
    "In the ocean?" Donna moaned. Her mom only nodded. "In a minuet." Donna ran to her room. She opened her notebook and wrote:
    Chapter two
    As she swam through the kelp forest, the light began to dim, yet she kept swimming. It became pitch black and still she swam. Suddenly the space was flooded with light, and swimming became much easier, she noticed. Her feet and legs warped together and scales formed. But the perils of the Harv she had yet to discover. It is a beast so big that if it moved it would flood venice with the waves it made. A beast so strong it could snap a car in half with one finger. Yet so cowardly at the mention of his weak spot, his head, for he was so dumb that if you asked him what the difference was between gold and silver he'd say "shiny?"
    So Donna discovered that she can get lost in her own story, and she always knows she has one option if she wants to escape the world. Literature.