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the Magic Chalk and the very real T-Rex, an original story by Daniel Hines. If you would

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The Magic Chalk and the very real T-Rex.

The recess bell rang and the kids flowed out of the school yard doors like water from a

bursting dam. Most of them ran to the new spring grass to start a game of freeze tag. Others

went to the jungle gym to swing from the monkey bars and chase each other across the rattling

metal platforms. One girl walked alone to the old, weed-choked basketball court. The

hoops had no nets and the kids weren't allowed basketball since the dodgeball incident,

so she had the entire court to herself. She wore a serious expression on her face and

a red plastic bucket was swinging from her fist. When she got to the center of the court,

she knelt, pulled a piece of colored chalk from the bucket, and got to work. As she so

often did, she sang as she drew.

Chalk of purple, red and green. Let's draw something never seen. Let's make a day

dream come to light with all your colors, clean and bright.

She drew quickly. The sidewalk chalk raspin over the asphalt, only pausing to switch out

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