Tri-County Educational Service Center Literary Contest Stump Takes First Place in Long Story with 'Rainbow Colors'

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Each year students from area high schools participate in the Literary Contest sponsored by Tri-County Educational Service Center. In long story, first-place winner was Kaitlyn M. Stump, a freshman at Hillsdale High School.

Like ice on a warm winter day, spring slowly faded away. The summer was harsh, filled with scorching weather and ferocious storms. The rain fell in torrents on July 15, and sweet Annabella gazed teary-eyed out her window, to see her prized garden wilt with the heavy downpour. A wicked wind howled through the trees and thunder boomed; lightning split the sky. Normally Annabella would tremble in fear at a storm of this magnitude, but at this moment she thought only of her beloved flowers, first scorched by the summer heat and now given a watery burial by the downpour the clouds had unleashed.

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Tri-County Educational Service Center Literary Contest Stump Takes First Place in Long Story with 'Rainbow Colors'

Annabella had been an orphan for most of her 13 years and she could find no friends at the orphanage. And so she had erected a small garden when she was six and had tended to it ever since. Her flowers were the only friends Annabella had ever known. But one of the younger girls had told her t...

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