Young Storykeeper Volume III

34 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE SEVEN | 35
too big. Then Dee waved her wand and the
whole village was there with their spades too.
Everyone worked together to keep William
alive. When tide came, he finally escaped.
The next morning, the twins woke up
from the strange noise coming from the
attic. They put on their slippers and went
to see. The old spiral stairs were open, and
someone was up at the top of the tower.
It was Dad, fixing the rusty old light. The
bulb was gi-normous, almost the size of the
room. Dad had opened old wooden shutters
and was fixing the old windows. There was
dust and sand everywhere, but Dad looked
happy.
“It will work tonight!” he said.
The twins giggled and asked, “Does
that mean that the slide is next, Daddy?”
From that night, the light was always on
in the old lighthouse.
Catherine Vasilieva
Co Kildare
“I love it!” Then she saw a cloth over
something shiny. She took it off and
found a diamond.
“So this is what makes the light.”
And then she looked out the window
and saw Lin waving at her. “Hello!”
she said.
THE LIGHT IN THE NIGHT
Twins John and Summer lived by the sea with
their dad Tom, mom Zoe and dog Woofy.
Fairy Dee lived there too, behind her
fairy door.
Dad worked as an architect and Mum
was a scientist. The family moved into the
lighthouse, which Dad had converted. The
old tower had not been used as a lighthouse
for some time.
Sailors had modern boats with GPS, so
they didn’t rely on lighthouses anymore. Tom
converted the whole tower except for the top
floor where the old light was.
It was a tall tower and Tom worked very
hard to put the kitchen on the ground floor,
the living room on the first and the bedrooms
on the second. The twins complained that
there was no lift or slide down!
One day on the beach, Dee met an
old fish called Bob. Bob was a catfish, so
it looked old but in fact it was not that old.
Bob told Dee that all the sea creatures were
missing the light from the old light house.
They hadn’t liked the light in the beginning
Then Cindra, Tom and Edward
walked back home and they lived
happily ever after.
for being too bright but then they got used to
it and now they were missing its presence.
It was a surprise! Dee rushed to tell the
twins.
“What should we do?” wondered
Summer.
“Let’s tell Daddy,” suggested John.
The twins told their dad.
Dad didn’t believe them. “I am not fixing
a light for a catfish! What’s next, a slide for
a mermaid?”
The next night there was a big storm.
The wind was strong, and the waves were
scary. In the morning the family woke up
from the weird sound coming from the
beach. Dee was there first, she found a
whale laying helplessly in the sand. It was
William.
He looked sad. He could not move. He
lost his way in the storm. “If only the old light
had been there!” he sighed.
The family got their spades and rushed
to help. They dug the tunnel for water to get
in, but it was not enough. William was way
THE CRACK IN THE SHIP
Once upon a time Luna and Johnny went on holiday.
“I can’t wait to go on holiday on a ship,” said Luna.
“Me too,” said Johnny.
“Oh! Look the ship is here,” said Luna.
“Let’s go inside,” said Johnny.
Luna and Johnny were having a look around the ship. After they went to have
a rest, until they heard a loud crack!
“What’s that noise?” shouted Luna.
“I don’t know!” shouted Johnny.
Luna and Johnny ran to the front of the ship.
“Aaaaa! We’re sinking!” shouted Luna.
“What will we do?” asked Johnny.
“Let’s go and tell the captain,” said Luna.
“Good idea,” said Johnny.
Luna and Johnny went to the captain’s room.
“Oh no! The captain fainted!” said Luna.
“What will we do?” shouted Johnny.
“What is that rainbow thing over there?” asked Luna.
“I don’t know,” said Johnny.
Luna and Johnny went to see what that rainbow thing was.
“It’s a mermaid!” shouted Luna.
“But, but how?” said Johnny.
“I can take you to the lighthouse, my friend lives there - he can help you,”
said the mermaid.
“Wow! Okay,” said Luna.
The mermaid took them to the lighthouse.
“Thank you! Thank you!” said Luna and Johnny.
“You’re welcome,” said the mermaid.
And they all lived happily ever after.
Oliwia Antoniuk
Co Dublin