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Grades 2–3
Fantasy/SciFi, Narrative
Writing

My Future Self (2020)

Jude, 826michigan
A student describes life in the future, complete with 3-D pens and hologram television!

Maybe in the future, we will have hologram television and holograms you can feel. Maybe we will have mechs!

Mech description: Has two wings. People think of the mech like, “You built this amazing mech and it has two puny wings.”

3-D pen: A pen that can write off of the paper.

Once, there was a man in a mech. He lives in the future. He wants to help people in the past. Every day, he takes his notebook and his 3-D pen. He writes about the future and throws his notebook and pen into the past. The people wonder whose journal it is.

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