by Milit Shrivastava
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My best friend’s mom is a cop and was at work through the lockdown. One day, the Presidents and Prime Ministers of all the big countries met for an online Covid conference.
A scientist was also invited to the conference as a special guest. The scientist informed all the heads of states that his team had found the antidote for NCOV-19. Just then, a woman entered the room and walked hurriedly up to the US President Donald Trump. She whispered something to him and walked away. President Trump disclosed the information to all the heads of states that the world’s notorious smuggler, Maestro Del Contrabando, had stolen the formula of the antidote so that he could smuggle it. Maestro Del Contrabando was his nickname. No one knew his real name, not even his wife and children.
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Trump said that the smuggler was in a plane and was headed towards India. So Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, asked all the cops to be on the lookout for the smuggler.
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My best friend’s mother was at a check-post when she saw Maestro Del Contrabando in a Mercedes. There was another international criminal with him. He was selling the formula to this criminal for 9.99 million dollar.
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My best friend’s mother hopped onto the police car and chased the Mercedes. After a wild chase, she finally caught both of them. And she was awarded the medal of honour.
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Milit is 8 years old. He is an author at Readersburg.
By Rishi Singhai
One day, Wade found out that he was out of hand-sanitiser. He went to a shop near his house to buy a couple of bottles of hand-sanitiser. But because of the Covid pandemic, the shop was out of stock.
So he checked at some other shops. Finally, he found one that had hand-sanitiser. He asked the man behind the counter to give him two bottles of hand-sanitiser.
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But there was only one left. Wade thought he was lucky to have found a hand-sanitiser even if it was just one bottle. He bought it and walked out of the shop. Just then, he heard a lady asking the shopkeeper for a hand-sanitiser.
Wade stopped and looked at the lady. She was old. He thought, ‘I can check with other shops. But she is old.’ So he gave the bottle of sanitiser to the old lady.
She thanked him and walked away. Now again he went looking for a shop that would have a hand-sanitiser. And he found one. This shop had four or five bottles left.
And here, he saw the old lady again! He asked her, ‘’Why are you buying so much hand-sanitiser?’ She just smiled and didn’t answer him.
‘She can’t hear. She comes here often to buy hand sanitizer,’ the shopkeeper said to Wade.
He asked that what does she do with so much hand-sanitiser. The shopkeeper also didn’t know.
Wade bought two bottles of hand-sanitiser and went home.
The next day, he saw the old lady giving away hand-sanitiser bottles to poor people in a slum near the market.
Rishi is 11 years old. He is a storyteller at Readersburg Story Club.
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