The Day the Dinosaurs Attacked

Sam wrote a short story for the Reflections contest at school. He won first prize for literature in the K-2 category. GO SAM!!!

The Day the Dinosaurs Attacked
by
Samuel Emerson Bates

Chapter 1—The Bolt of Lightening

One day while I was walking to school a rainstorm came. Lightening hit our flagpole. It went into the ground. A few days later we heard a big crack.

I ran to the flagpole. And their I saw a huge hole. Big enough for 38 hotels. Then I heard a roar. And there standing right before me was a T-rex. From the center of the earth.

Chapter 2—More Dinosaurs

As I was running from it I saw my friend Mark. At first he said hi Tommy! But then he saw. He told me a trick to get a way from it. Stand still and they cannot see you. We stood still and the T-Rex could not even see us and went away.

Then we went back to the hole. More dinosaurs came out! I saw they were heading for the city. When we got to the city most of the things were destroyed.

Chapter 3—the Trap

Then we went back to the hole. We set a trap of leaves and twigs. But first we put a weight thing that would set a chain reaction and cover the hole with dirt.

Then we got some bait. Every dinosaur fell for it. And then the trap worked.

The End