A Series Of Sorrowful Stories by Duane Harvey (summer reading list .TXT) 📕

said, "It's time for my revenge."
Suddenly a dog walked up to Rainsford.
It said, "Don't ya think so!"

Rainsford said, "Wait, you're that little puppy that pushed me down!"
The dog said, "Yep, but now I am all grown up."

Rainsford said, "Oh, great."
The dog jumped, but that was a big mistake. Rainsford pulled out his carving knife and... well, I am not going to say what happened. It's too depressing to say. Lets just say that the cute dog won't be walking or talking anytime soon. Rainsford said, "That's what you get, you annoying dumb mut."


I flew and put my claws into Trantrex's belly. Trantrex fell to the ground and died. I turned back into a human. Zaroff ran up to me and said, "Mat? You're a dragon?"
Suddenly a deep voice said, "Yes, he is."

Mr. Coke said, "Oh, no. It's Rainsford!"
Everyone looked at him. Mr. Coke yelled, "Hey, do you need a hand?" Everyone started to laugh except for Rainsford.
Rainsford said, "Very funny, Mr. Coke. Would you like to be recycled?" Rainsford laughed.
Mr. Coke said, "Okay, that's it!" He jumped out of Rose's hands and rolled to Rainsford.
Suddenly Moriah fell out of a tree and fell onto Mr. Coke. She said, "Uh, sorry about that." Then she turned towards the hospital and yelled, "Yo, mom, I need a new butt, my butt has a large crack it!" When Moriah stood up, she looked down and yelled, "I sat on a pop can! Now my butt is broken and it also smells like coke!"

The dogs smiled and stared at Moriah. Zaroff said, "My dogs love coke."
Moriah frowned and ran across the lawn. Behind her were Zaroff's dogs chasing her.


Mr. Tompson appeard around a tree and said, "Mat, where are the other students?"
I said, "Up in the tree?"

Mr. Tompson looked up and saw that the tree was filled with his students. He ran and jumped on a white boat. Rainsford turned and said, "Hey, that person is taking my only way home!" Rainsford started to run to Mr. Tompson, until my mom tackled him. Rainsford fell to the ground and said, "I am getting tired of this."

Suddenly Duane and his master appeared. Duane said, "This is the weirdest thing ever. Don't you think?"

His master said, "Yea." They turned around and walked away.

Suddenly Ashley appeared. She said, "This is getting boring." She picked up Jordan and tossed him at Rainsford.
Jordan said, "Howdy, partner."
They fell off of the cleft.
Ten minutes later, Rainsford woke up. He noticed that he was behind bars. He said, "At least I am away from Jordan."
He heard someone tapping their feet. He slowly turned his head until he saw Jordan smiling and tapping his feet. Rainsford ran up to the bars and yelled, "Get me out of here! At least away from him! I spent most of my life with this stupid kid!"
Jordan said, "Hey, would you like a hug?"

Chapter 25 * Mat's Story

"Rainsford yelled and screamed until, he couldn't scream any longer. He pulled out his carving knife. You would have thought that Rainsford would have stabbed Jordan, but instead he killed himself. His body was on the dirty cell floor. Right next to his body was Jordan. He said, "Laying down is so romantic isn't it? I just love cell floors. Don't you?" He talked and talked and talked. There was no answer and there will never be a answer from Mr. Rainsford.

Six hours later, Mr. Tompson, Flat Mr. Coke, Mr. Tompson's students, Moriah, Moriah's mom, my mom, and I were on the white boat sailing to Carmichaels. Flat Mr. Coke said, "Why do you think pop goes flat?"

Moriah said, "Why?"

Flat Mr. Coke said, "Because a Moriah sits on them, of course."

Moriah said, "Very funny. I got one for you. What do you think a flat pop can needs to learn when they are tossed into the ocean?"

Flat Mr. Coke said, "What?"

Moriah picked him up and said, "How to swim."

Flat Mr. Coke said, "That doesn't make any sense."

Moriah said, "Maybe this will help you understand." She tossed Flat Mr. Coke out of her hands. He landed in the deep blue sea.

Flat Mr. Coke said, "I can't swim! Wait a minute. Oh, I understand her joke now."
Then the poor flat pop can went to the bottom of the ocean. When he got to the bottom of the ocean he saw sixty flat pop cans looking at him.
One of them said, "The swimming joke, right?"

Flat Mr. Coke said, "Yea."

One hundred years later, Moriah was watching 'The New Adventures of The Wizard of Oz' until she heard laughing. She picked her cane up and walked to the kitchen. She said, "Cheese, is that you laughing?"

A voice said, "No, look behind you."

Moriah turned her head slowly until she came face to face with...with a fresh can of pepsi. Moriah said, "Who are you?"
The pop can smiled and opened it's eyes and said, "It's me. Flat Mr. Coke, but I got recycled. So now I am Dr. Pepsi."


Moriah said, "Not you again! Why did I even buy that new case of pop?"

Dr. Pepsi said, "What do you call a girl sleeping?"

Moriah said, "What?"

Dr. Pepsi said, "Sleeping Beauty." Suddenly Dr. Pepsi started to sing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.'
Moriah closed her eyes and fell to the floor. She was not dead. She was sleeping.

One day later, Dr. Pepsi was on the kitchen counter in a pink dress. He said, "Let's Party!" He started to sing, "Wake up in the mornin' feelin' like P- Diddy (Hey what's up girl) Grab ma glasses I'm out the door I'm gonna hit the city (Let's go)
Before I leave brush ma teeth with a bottle of Jack, 'Cuz when I leave for the night I ain't comin back, I'm talkin pedicure on our toes toes, Tryin on all our clothes clothes
Boys blowin' up our phones phones, Drop top and playin' our favorite CD's, Goin up to the parties, Tryna get a little bit tipsy, Don't stop, make it pop, DJ, blow my speakers up, Tonight, Im'ma fight, Till we see the sunlight, TiK ToK, on the clock, But the party don't stop no."

Chapter 26 * Mat's Story

Mr. Tompson started to sing, "Don't stop, make it pop, DJ, blow my speakers up,
Tonight, Im'ma fight, Till we see the sunlight, TiK ToK, on the clock, But the party don't stop no, Woah-oh oh oh, Woah-oh oh oh."

I started to sing, "Aint got a care in world, but got plenty of beer, Aint got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here, Now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger, But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger."

My mom started to sing, "I'm talkin' bout - everybody getting crunk, crunk
Boys tryna touch my junk, junk, Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk, Now, now - we goin' til they kick us out, out, Or the police shut us down, down, Police shut us down, down, Po-po shut us down."

Zaroff started to sing, "Don't stop, make it pop, DJ, blow my speakers up, Tonight, Ima fight, Till we see the sunlight, TiK ToK, on the clock, But the party don't stop no, Woah-oh oh oh, Woah-oh oh oh." We danced so much that we lost eight pounds!"

The physiologist said, "Mat, that was a...very long story."

Mat said, "Yea, you said if you heard EVERYTHING, then you would help me."

The physiologist said, "Sorry, kid. That was too long. It's my lunch break." He left the room.
Mat looked out of the window and saw his reflection.
He said, "I am Mathew B. Jones, and I live in Carmichaels. And no one, and I mean no one is going to change that!"

Rose walked in the room and said, "Mat, it's time to go home. We have been here the whole day."

Mat looked at Rose and said, "I know mom, I was telling the physiologist my story."

Rose said, "Okay, lets go home." Rose grabbed Mat's hand and they walked out of the room, down the stairs, and into the dark shadows of the night sky.
Back at the physiologist room, in the window was a reflection of a man's bloody face. It was the face of a new murderer. It was the face of Jordan. Jordan Rainsford.

The sound of a fired gun echoed through the jail walls. Someone had fired it, but who was it? A dark figure appeared at the end of the dark hall. The figure was holding the gun. The figure walked under a flashy light bulb. The figure turned out to be a boy. That boy was no other than, Jordan, Jordan Rainsford.

He walked out of the jail. He said, "I have returned. And I won't stop until I get what I want!" He walked to a cleft.

A police officer walked over and held his gun up. He yelled, "Stop right there!"
Jordan smiled at the officer and fell backwards, off of the cleft and into the ocean. The officer ran to the edge of the cleft and stared down into the water. He could only see tides and sticks in the water.
The officer held up his walkie- talkie and said, "Jordan Rainsford has escaped. We need the...Mystery Inc."

A day later, the sun peeked into the glass window, causing Mat to wake up. He got out of bed and walked to the kitchen. He made himself breakfast. He sat down and started to eat. The light went out. Then he heard knocking at the front door. He walked slowly to the door. He heard more knocking. He opened it slowly until he saw four teenagers and their dog. Mat said, "Hey, I know you! You are the Mystery Inc!" He pointed to a girl in red hair and said, "You must be Velma!"

Velma said, "Jinkies, that's strange. How do you know who we are?"

Mat said, "I am your stalker!" He started to laugh.

Shaggy pulled out a pan and tossed it at Mat's face. Shaggy said, "We don't like stalkers!"

Mat put his hand to his forehead and said, "Hey, I was only kidding!"

Fred said, "Sorry about that. Shaggy doesn't understand the meaning of joking."
Scooby-Doo said, "Yep, yep, yep, Shaggy stupid!"

Mat said, "I noticed."
Suddenly a cart flew down the road with two children in it. Mat said, "Did you just see that dinosaur run down the road?"

Shaggy yelled, "Dinosaur!" He ran around in circles until Daphne tripped him. He fell in a pile of poop. Shaggy looked up