It was a dark night – one of the darkest recently and the strong cold wind was blowing. There was a full moon on the sky. And when there is the full moon, on that hill, which the story is about always some strange things happen. A hundred years ago on the night of a full moon that hill arose. Nobody knew how but it has just appeared.

That night an old car came along a crooked road and stopped at the foot of the hill. At the top of the hill there was a big old house. A witch lived in it. A man came out of a car and went along a path which led to the top of the hill. After 15 minutes the man reached the house. He knocked at the door. Since nobody answered, he opened them. The door was squeakily and old as the house itself. When the door opened, the poor man saw a witch with a green face and a black cat on her shoulder. He was frightened and immediately ran down the hill. Because of the darkness he couldn’t seen anything so he fell into a pond. He couldn’t swim because of the water plants. He started to sink. With his arm he searched for something that he could cling to and he grabbed a flower. When he pulled it out of the soil, the flower became very bright. There was a huge hole now instead of the dirty pond and the man was dry. He could see a long queue of witches and magicians. They were walking out of the house and straight into the hole. When the last magician went into the hole, it disappeared. And it wasn’t dark anymore. The flower, which a moment ago was still bright, was now an ordinary red carnation. The man looked at the top of the hill. There was no house now, only a cat and the huge full moon behind it. The cat ran to the man and he could see that it wasn’t black now – it was brown. That was the witch’s cat. He grabbed the cat and called for a taxi. When the taxi came, he got in and noticed that there was no driver in the car. So he came home in a car without a driver. That night he dreamed some strange things.

When he woke up in the morning, he went back to the place where he was last night. But there was no hill. There were only two houses. When he asked the owners if they knew what had happened to the hill, they just looked at him oddly. Who knows, maybe it was just a dream. But the cat was real.

Tina, 9.r

Last summer vacation I went camping with my friends.

Late in the evening we all went for a walk. We were talking when suddenly a few rabbits ran past us. We ran in the direction where we saw some light. The next thing we knew, we were in the middle of a forest fire. One of us quickly called the fire department. We tried to find a way out, but there was fire everywhere around us. Then I heard my friend shouting. We looked for him and found a small cave.

We all hid in there until the fireman arrived. They helped us out and then we went back to our camp. Fortunately, the fire wasn’t too big for the fireman to tame.

Maj, 8.r

Once I saw a forest fire. It was on a hill near Solkan. It was 4 pm when I saw it . At 2.20 pm I came home. I put my bag in my room. Suddenly I heard a siren from a fire engine. Then I went out to the playground to play football. It was 3.45 when I went back home. I looked up the nearest hill and I saw that it was black. Some trees were still on fire. I called my brother. He came out of the house and he was very surprised because one hour ago he was looking at the hills and they were all green. Later, on the evening TV news, they said that they didn’t know what caused the fire.

Matic, 8.r