These are the days of our lives: Fairy tales with a twist.

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Learning Experience by Evan Garrett

Once upon a time in a land of gumdrops and rainbows, lived Roger the rabbit. Now, Roger was a smart, humorous, rabbit, but he didn’t have much common sense. It was Roger’s tenth birthday, and his family and friends wanted to do something special for him. They decided to rent a couple of fudge lanes at the local bowling alley. Everything was perfect. The sun, with its bright glowing smile was shining, the three blind mice, who, were selling food, were happily making candy corn, and the game machine were taking bottle caps by the hundreds. The local band The Quacksters, with their lead singer Daffy, were playing their set list of songs while Jack and Jill were at the counter handing out bowling shoes to everyone. While his parents were collecting the shoes, he acquired his rosebud bowling bowl and proceeded to his lane. The sugarcane bowling pins were set up and everyone was waiting for him. Food was spread around on the table and there was a cake in the process of being made. He put on his shoes in a rush to get to the lane and tripped over his oversized shoes. He didn’t check them before he put them on and fell because of it. He then swapped out his shoes and went back to his lane. Everyone was having a great time until Mr. Aggressive showed up. Mr. Aggressive is an angry, heavy, beast of a bowling bowl who hates everyone. He was pushing all of the other rosebud bowling balls around. He was sitting in the rack when Roger came up to bowl. Mr. Aggressive had blended in and you couldn’t tell the difference between him and the others. Roger grabbed .Mr. Aggressive without knowing and he got into position to bowl. He had gone a couple of frames without a problem. Then Mr. aggressive became volatile. As he began to bowl, Mr. Aggressive did something to his hand! He twisted his middle finger and it injured him badly. Roger dropped his ball and grasped his finger in shear pain. Roger had forgotten to check the


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