WRITING WINNER

Jasimaine McNeil

(ENLARGE)

ART WINNER Shirvela Boddie Pope Elementary, 2nd grade

(ENLARGE)

Keonta Powell Rocky Mount Prep, 3rd grade

(ENLARGE)

Michael Gardner West Edgecombe HS, 9th grade

(ENLARGE)

Quashon Avent D.S. Johnson Elementary, 5th grade

Edgecombe Early College, 9th grade

Love

If love wasn't real ... then I'd be dead by now. If evil was the ulitmate force then hate would be the only emotion I am aware of.

Brandon Cooke

Rocky Mount Prep School, 1st grade

Amusing Coach

The school we attend is full of laughter.

We have a coach that is able to amuse us with his stories.

He told us about a friend that said he had been to the coast.

He told us he saw a spider by the water.

After his trip, he got a sore throat.

Brendan Bello

OLPH Catholic School, 3rd grade

The Scary Night

One night, I lay awake listening to the sounds near the lake. Then, I heard something moving toward the boat ramp. It made me jump up high off my bed. I saw some tiny ants crawling in a line out the window. Next, I saw a shape rising out of the water. It looked like a monster from an action movie, but I knew it wasn't real. I looked again and it was my neighbor's dog. He ran right up the boat ramp. I tried to go back to sleep and pulled the covers tight over my head.

Later that night, I dreamed that the dog can transform himself into a three-headed dog like in the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." It was so scary that it woke me up. Luckily, it was morning because the smell of breakfast cooking was coming from the kitchen. I couldn't wait to taste it!