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It was a hot summer day in July and me and my sister, Stella wanted to go out on the beach to cool down. We asked our parents if we could drive to the beach and they replied happily, glad that we were not sitting and watching t.v.  Before I went out to go for a swim I saw Stella throwing rocks out into the water.

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By: Maryli
Me and my sister May love to play outside in the hot sun. We started skipping rocks on the lake nearby. May was so shocked when the rock came back, to make sure I wasn't just seeing things I threw one more rock it starting to skip forward, but then it came right back to me. Was I dreaming? I could've sworn that I woke up this morning. Was I hallucinating? One thing was for sure and it was that me and May were seeing the same thing and I was creeped out by what I saw that day. That strange day in July.

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It was a warm day in July. It was so warm that I could only play outside for a few minutes. I chose to skip rocks with my brother, James. I saw him pick up the first rock and throw it. A few seconds later, he picked up another rock and threw it. Something strange happened after he threw the third rock, but I was getting tired so I wasn't sure if I was seeing things. A few seconds passed by and then all of a sudden I heard the sound of a rock skipping across the water.

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It was a nice, warm, sunny day so I went to the lake with my sister, Emma. My sister was swimming and I was skipping rocks.

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by jacob deleon
Mike and Sally were skipping stone when Mike threw a stone with all of his strength the third stone had come back mike was frightened and Sally jumped up from and started to get a little freaked out on the fact that the rock coming back to him Mike was freak out but he told his sister he probably hit something and then went back home.

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There I was down at the lake with my sister. My name is Teddy and my sisters name is Elizabeth. Elizabeth is always by me, my mom forced me to take her down to the lake.We were just casually skipping stones. I picked up 3 stones and threw the first two then I threw with all my might, but the third stone just came skipping back. Luckily it didn't hit my face, but it still nailed me right in the shin.

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By: Ellie
My parents wanted to get out of the house and go somewhere. They packed a lunch and got us in the car. When we finally reached our destination, Mom and Dad began getting the lunch they had packed. I climbed out of the car and took a look around. There was a small pond, the sun glinting on the surface, and a picknick table sat not to far from the bank of the pond. I began to head down to the pond, and my sister, being an adventurous type like me, followed. I picked up a three rocks and began to skip them across the water. The first two made it a fair way out over the water, but when I threw the third rock, it came skipping back towards me.

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It was a gloomy, humid summer day here in Fallhaven, me and my little sister were down by the lake, like we always are. But what happened on Thursday July 23, 2003 changed my life. My name is Caleb, and my little sisters name is Hanna. We are always down by the lake during our free time. We don't really have any friends, and our parents died in a plane explosion 2 summers ago. Since then we have lived with our aunt and uncle. As I skipped 3 stones into the water, 2 of them made it halfway to the lake, but the third one came skipping right back.

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By: Nandana
It was a nice, hot, day in July. The birds were chirping, the flowers were blooming, and everything was calm and peaceful. But little did I know that one incident would change everything around me...forever.

¨Come on!¨ Jessie, my sister, stamped her foot.

¨Okay,okay¨ I sighed. ¨I´m coming!¨

We walked over to the beach and sat down. The sun was draining my energy so quickly!

My sister and I gathered up a few pebbles to throw. She threw first. It skipped a little, then came back.

She glanced up at me, very confused.

I threw my third pebble with all the strength I could muster. But it came back too.

¨What is going on¨? I wondered, quietly to myself.

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By Pedro

I threw with all my might, but the third stone came skipping back. I sighed, disappointed, then sat back down. My sister was next to me, waiting impatiently for me. She stared  at me with her blue, five year old eyes. My strength wasn't strong enough to throw the stone far enough away. My little 6 year old hands could only grab little rocks, so the rocks were more like pebbles. I was spacing out when I heard my mother's voice behind me shout "Kenny! Rose! Dinners ready!" I start to get up when my sister suddenly asks me out of the blue, "What do you think it like out there?" I say "I don't know." She then nodded her head as if expecting that answer. We both got up and headed for our house. I wish I could explore the whole world but the problem was that no one ever leaves the island. There is no escaping, and you will be trapped here forever.

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It was a warm day in July. I went down to the beach with my sister to throw rocks into the water. My name is Bob, and I live next to the ocean. I go there almost every day, but today something odd happened. When I threw the stones into the water, they skipped back to me.

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A strange day in July     By:Prince Trawa 

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A strange day in July     By:Prince Trawa 

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When the third stone came back I was creeped out because I threw it with all of my might. Maybe it was just the wind I thought. Then the fourth stone came back again, now I knew it was not the wind something or someone must have thrown it back and I wanted to find out.

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Every weekend me and my sister went to our aunt's house, our aunt lived by Lake Michigan. The weekend of July 4, you could hear the sound of the sizzling hamburgers and hot dog on the grill. Me, my sister, and my other 3 cousins went the lake, and started playing games by the water. We started to try to skip rocks. One time it was my turn to try to skip a rock, but this time it didn't sink or go far, it skipped right throw the ice cold water and came skipping right back to me, landed right in front of my feet, with a shiny layer of water on the top of the rock.

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by: Izzy
Like every other day during the summer, I went to the lake with my sister, Justine. My parents are always nearby, like sitting on the porch with their friends. I was teaching Justine how to skip rocks, but suddenly the rocks  came skipping back. My sister started clapping and does the hokey pokey as if I did it correctly. I threw again and again, trying to get it farther from me NOT closer to me.  The rocks kept hitting me as they came bouncing back. I finally threw the rock at the ground and sat on the white, sandy beach. Justine was already throwing the rocks the correct way. "Why don't MY rocks bounce back like yours?"

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It was a hot summer day in July and me and my brother wanted to go out

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Jill and Jack where at the beach and the third stone came skipping back to Jack. Jack was 7 years old and very frustrated by throwing stones and kept trying and trying he was there all day with his sister Jill who was 5 years old

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"I threw with all my might but it just came coming back." timothy said.  Sitting on the beach with his baby sister carla we were at the lake today Tim said to himself "i shouldn't have baby duty" it's mid july and is very hot outside and i don't know what to do. it's too hot to be on land. he rushed to the water and picked up a rock. He tried to skip it the the first didn't skip, the second went far the third rock however just came right back.

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by: Sophia Rice

Me and my family every summer went to a beautiful lake house. My sister, and I went down to the lake and we were skipping rocks. Me and my sister loved skipping rocks. My sister Sally is nine years old but she is very mature and has a sense of humor. My parents take us to this place during the summer for a summer vacation,every year. My parents Jenny and Mark are the best parents in the whole world! they can make anything fun.

I yell," Sally check out this skip,"
I throw the rock with all of my might but it kept on skipping back.

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I threw the rock with all my might it skipped twice and came skipping back
to me. This was odd to me because I have never seen anything like it before.
My sister, Sally who is 5 and I went back up to the house to tell mom the amazing thing I just saw. She did not believe me and said that is a great imagination.

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By Lucy
Like every summer my family went to my grandparents lake house for a two weeks. My Pa was a nice old man who loved fishing and telling magical stories. My Gran was the same as him, just liked to knit and bake like standard grandparents to do. Me and my sister, Abigail, love to skip stones, play together, and try to fish with Pa. One afternoon Abigail and I go down to the lake to skip stones after we had our standard lunch of turkey sandwiches with a fresh blueberry muffin our Gran made. We get to the rocky shore and look for some smooth rocks. I scan the ground until I come across a purplish stone. Just figuring it was a fancy glass stone my parents sometimes buy to spruce up the shore, I thought nothing of it. Until I threw it..........😮

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My annoying sister and I decided to head to Glass Lake to skip some stones. She had been bugging me all day to go. It was kind of a breezy day but I couldn't find my jacket so I just dashed out the door. When we arrived at the lake my sister immediately grabbed about 4 stones and chucked them all into the water. They all sank within seconds. I picked up 3 stones. One was sort of glowing but I just ignored it. I threw my first... then my second. Saving the glowing one for last. For a second I was hearing some type of voice. It sounded like, ¨Throw this rock far and you shall pay¨ or something like that. I
didn't care to listen to that stupid voice. I launched that rock as far as I could and turned around to pick up another one. When I turned back and faced the lake, I was whacked in the face but something glowing. The stone?

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By: Avi
It was a warm day in July, my sister and I were skipping stones we just wanted to have some fun. All of a sudden the strangest thing happened, the third stone I skipped came skipping back to me.

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A Strange Day in July                   By: Eva Wood

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A Strange Day in July                   By: Eva Wood

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After the stone came skipping back, I fell to the ground, the stone whisked me across the face. My sister felt worried, I told her that I was fine but the stone had a different feeling than any other slap across the face. It felt more exciting and energized. My sister, Julia and I headed back towards the Lake  house when all of a sudden another stone came tumbling back towards my face. I ducked. Julia and I looked at each other in amazement. One after the other they kept coming, I managed to only get hit by a stone  three times and not in the face.

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He threw with all of his might, but the third stone came skipping back.