Samuel Walker — a story by Shlok Sharma
A story by Shlok Sharma, who was a grade-5 student at Welch Elementary School in Naperville when he wrote this. His favorite author was Rick Riordan.
As I sat down to face my mom, I sensed she was unhappy about something. "Joe, I am disappointed in you. Your writing scores are terribly low.You need to work on this. I have bought a diary for you. I want you to write a journal at the end of every day. It doesn't matter what you write about but I want you to write something each day."
"Phew! This doesn't look very tough," I thought.
And my mother walked out of the room -just like that. No further scolding -"thank you God"
I walked to my room, so I could start my journal.
[The story ends here in the archived original.]
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