A quick preface:
This is a short story I made when I was in the fifth grade. If I recall correctly, we were given the freedom to write about anything we wanted and, being a completle nerd obsessed with all things Nintendo at the time, I chose to write about a kid who gets transported to a digital world (I was also really into Digimon).
I remember being so proud of what I wrote becasue it had everything that I loved and I could be as comedic as I wanted. My teacher said that it made no sense because I kept introducing random details that didn't really serve the story. She should have said that this story sucked because looking back, I have never read a worse piece of writing. There is not a single grammar rule that was followed and I'm surprised that I was even allowed to move up a year because omg. Was this a bad story or was I just a secret genius at age 11, already cognizant of technology's impact on society? This is an awful story lol, but I'll let you come to that conclusion for yourself.

I have formatted this in the same way it was originally typed, spelling mistakes, strange stylistic choices and all.
(I also want to clarify that the 'windows 95' sound I described was actually meant to be the sound of AOL dial-up.)

I hope you enjoy this, I certainly did when I rediscovered it!!

“Hello” I began. “My name is shawn, i’m 12 years old and my favorite animals are dogs”. “It’s a pleasure for you to join our class shawn,” Commented ms.apple. Today was my first day at riverdale elementry,before I exchanged went to shonotel elementary. I walked to my smooth,granite desk and sat in a small wooden chair and listened to stuff like how mr.willy wonka became a thing and how the school bus became magic. After what seemed like forever(actually 10 minutes) I raised my hand and politely asked “may I go get a drink from the water fountain’’? “Of course you can my student!” Ms.apple happily replied. As I slowly walked to the water fountain now 5 feet away, I noticed a blood red door with a shiny golden handle, walking towards it, I reached out my hand and felt how smooth it was, it reminded me of an ice cube cold and slippery. While I was opening the door,it made the sound of a windows 95 at a ear piercing pitch more or less like this:BEEP OP UP BEEEEEEEEEEEEP! Covering my ears with my palms, I ran inside and to my surprise everything there was a grey and gloomy. Because it felt like a waste I tried exiting but the door locked on the outside! “ that’s great,’’ I snitched sarcastically.I decided to start exploring this ‘grey waste land’. After a while I saw a large,tall,gray tower in the distance,walking towards it,I saw a city! Sprinting as fast as I could,I entered the city, but to my surprise it had no name. Confused I tried to ask someone why but they were to busy staring into the screen of their:phones, dses and tablets. “Hello?” I yelled. “Can anybody hear me?” No one answered. I yelled louder. Then I heard a tiny voice squeak “I know why everyone won’t listen,” I looked down and saw a little boy with pale white skin with the clothes of a 1950’s newspaper boy. “ the reason why nobody will talk is because there to busy using their electronics.” “ uh, I think I already figured that one” I sarcastically replied. “Oh…” he mumbled. “Guess I’ll introduce myself, my name is cloud,and let me tell you a story…
A long,long,long,long time ago this town was a simple place, until a evil italian plumber came a showed us to ds’s, iphones and tablets. After that nobody had put them down ever since.” “Oh,” I utted. “I guess i’ll have to introduce myself too, my name is shawn,” I declared awesomely,and I guess me and you have to should save everyone.” “WHATTT?!?” screamed cloud extremely frightened “I can’t go I’m too small and weak to fight him!!!” I stared at him ignorantly. “Well too bad, you’re coming with me.” I announced as I dragged by the light brown collar. Since the ‘evil italians’ house was fairly far away we had met a plethora of people as we walked past a couple of places, first we met a tall elf wearing a bright green tunic,then we met a kid talking to a bright yellow mouse with a lightning bolt shaped tail, he gave me a small red and white ball he called a ‘pokéball’ he also said it catches creatures. Before we entered the evil guy’s evil lair, I asked cloud a VERY important question,”hey cloud.” “Yeah?” He replied. “ why are you dressed like a 1950’s newspaper boy?” I asked curiously. “Oh, it’s only because it make me look cool!!” He proudly exclaimed.” “Oohh, ok.” I snickered.
As we walked through the door a not-so despicable voice said. “ I have’a been expecting’a you...Shawn!!!” He hollered then made a despicable italian laugh “ for it’sa me… MARIO!!” He laughed maniacally again. “No name city was,is and always will always be under my’a control!”he laughed evilly once more as cloud hid in the corner. “Not if I defeat you first!” I snapped at the maniacal mario.then I reached into my pocket, grabbed the pokéball and shouted “I’ll catch you mario-chu!”I hurled the ball straight towards his face. Somehow the slightly obese plumber fitted into the ball, mario voraciously struggled to escape, but failed. Cloud stared at me in amazement “ Wow shawn you defeated the mario!” I pushed out my chest and standed proudly. Back when we returned to noname city the mayor thanked me and said, “ thanks to you shawn, the city is now safeform becoming blind! You can now return to your old home.” When I walked towards the door now unlocked, I thought of how awesome and cool I would be if I told everyone about my journey, but then I thought everyone would think me as a weirdo to say this. I thought about it long and hard until I said “ I promise to make sure nobody will get to attached to video games and I’ll make sure to keep this a secret. Fare well!” I announced
. “Bye!!!!” They yelled back. When I returned to class ms.apple was fumming, “what took you so long shawn!you’ve been gone for two hours!” “ well I-” she cut me off. You are going to detention for the whole month! You should think of your mistake. So I did I thought of cloud, mario and how short the mayor was. And I never spent too much time staring at the tv.