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Whose Garden Grows at Midnight
mysteryEveryone5 contributors · 4 paragraphs deep
Nadia waits an hour. Nothing. She starts to nod off behind the bins. Then a soft thump wakes her. The pumpkin is rolling, slow and steady, across the path. She rubs her eyes. She can't see anyone pushing it.
Nadia creeps closer and sees the truth: a fat hedgehog is wedged inside a hole in the pumpkin's bottom, waddling along with the whole thing on its back. The 'thief' is an animal that moved in. Nadia laughs until her sides hurt.
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Nadia gently frees the hedgehog and shows the grown-ups in the morning. Mr. Okafor and Mrs. Pratt feel silly for fighting over a sleepy animal. They build the hedgehog a little house by the compost and name him Pumpkin. Best ending Nadia's notebook ever had.
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Rafael Cruz
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