by Chad Decock, age 14

This piece is one of a series written by students at the Hutch School. The Hutch School, which spans grades K–12, seeks to meet the educational needs of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance pediatric patients. On his trips to Seattle, Dave Eggers visits the school to work with students on various projects. During a recent trip, students wrote in response to Jamaica Kincaid’s short-short story "Girl." The students then read their stories aloud at a reading at the Elliott Bay bookstore, on October 2, 2002.

     This is how you indent. This is how you make a period. This is how you capatilise the first word of a sentence. This is how you make a run on sentence that just seems to go on and on without end that contains one too many ideas. This is how you count the word you’ve written so far, 1-2-3-64.
This is how you get yelled at for writing your paper at the last second. This is how you erase. This is how you form a correct sentence. This is not. You make a fantastic descriptive sentence, with descriptive words and inteli welll written structure. This is not. And this is how you end a paper.