The Palisadian-Post is highlighting winners of Pacific Palisades Library Association’s Summer Creative Writing Contest 2024, which had the theme “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to…” Here is the third-place piece in the Scribblers category (first and second grade), written by Roman McNitt. For a complete list of winners from this year’s contest, see Page 13.

‘The Missing Fruit Guy’

A funny thing happened on the way to the park, the fruit guy I checked
And he was not their. And I went home and I had fun, a good time.
And then I had a good time I went to the park and got some fruit.
And the fruit was yummy! And the fruit guy was there and I paid
Ten $. But he was out of mango but the watermelon was juicy and then I walked home.
And eat allot of fruit and the fruit was yummy! and eat all the fruit.
And the fruit was very juicy and I eat all of the fruit.
The fruit guy cut the fruit very good and the water melon.
And the water melon was fighting me.
And finally I won yay!
But it was hard and I’m not fighting a water melon again.