This "flash fiction" was written by 4th Grade me. Slight changes in wording and punctuation, as well as spelling fixes, from then to now. Preserved here for posterity.
Walking into the yard, a cluster of footprints catches my eye.As I go up to them, I see that they are cat prints - round and bumpy.
I decide to follow them.
As I walk, tramping through the crisp snow, I think they are from our neighbor's cat. It likes to wander around our yard. The cat prints lead me beneath a picnic table and near an oak tree.
About halfway through my journey, the paw prints go in two directions. Left and right. I think about each way for some time. I go left, hoping for an exciting adventure.
Following the paw prints gets boring, and I'm glad when my friend asks me to come over. As I leave for my friend's house, I see the cat prints with my footprints and wonder where those cat prints would have lead to.
When I got home, I found the cat prints had vanished.
And to this day, I still wonder where they would have lead to.
