Question

Write a short story within 200 words beginning with “Penny was a little girl who lived in Alaska...” Give a suitable title to the story.

Answer 1

Hint: The best short story usually encompasses only a short slice of the main character's life.

Complete answer:
The Dark Hole
Penny was a little girl who lived in Alaska. It was ice-cold there. She kept praying that she could play in the lush, green and warm gardens like we do but of course, she couldn't.
Her father, like all the men there, didn’t have a job. He hunted seals and caught fishes as was the custom. So her father hadn’t even heard of money and even if he had money, there weren’t any aeroplanes to take them abroad.
Somewhere near Penny’s house was a deep dark forest. Everyone was afraid to enter it. They said whoever entered it would be sucked in by a great hole.
One day, Penny was playing with her Eskimo friends when one of the boys shouted, “Hey, I dare one of you to enter the magic forest.”
No one dared. Penny picked up a twig and threw it at the edge of the forest. Nothing happened. Penny was astonished. It’s all a legend! We can play hide and seek in the woods if we want, she thought, She walked slowly towards the woods. It was getting colder and colder as she took each step. She walked right into the middle of the forest, and proved the haunting theory of the great hole wrong.

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