Things We Are Not

Things That We Are Not


Things that we are not
Is a long list of things
So I will say only a few
That will tickle the funny bone in you

We are not......
Text books with hexed looks
Antelopes eating cantaloupes
Cattle from Seattle

Homographs writing rough drafts
Taste buds covered with soap suds
A writer who uses a lighter
I can write more
But I don't want to make you snore.

Home and Muffin(My Dog) - For My Mom

Beware behind these gates
Especially for you a monster awaits
He knows all your fears
Ready to pounce and ready to tear

Do not mistake his innocent look
For behind those eyes,lies a crook
His breath can make you faint
for it smells worse than paint

Are you willing to risk it?
If you are, with you take a biscuit
For the one and only who is inside
Loves to play seek and hide

No,he isn't a ghost or phantom
Or a vampire with a tantrum
Nor is he a giant puffin
Now,you guessed right,
He is your one and only,
MUFFIN!!

Death By Passing The Parcel
Author : Niharika
This book is dedicated to Muffin, My Dog for cheering me up whenever I am sad.



Its actually fun to be dead once you get the hang of it.Maybe I should tell you the whole story....

It was just a normal day when as usual I was getting late for work.Si I grabbed a donut and coffee,geared up the car and headed for office. I work at a life insurance company and the guys there are nagging me all the time. I probably wouldn't tell my boss this, but he isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

So it was just about midday when it happened. The guys in our office are total nutcases,they keep fooling around and I (obviously) don't approve of it. Wee it was lunch, and even though I hate sitting on the table with everyone its sort of compulsory to. So the guys started playing passing the parcel and this guy names Sam was.....Oh! By the way name is Dylan Catrid.

So we were playing and unexpectedly the music stopped when I had the parcel. Everybody was looking at me, expecting me to to dance, sing or tell a joke. So I decided to recite a joke I heard on the radio the other day. it was this joke about penguins and whales. Then somebody started laughing and others were saying."Frozen with fear he is!" At first I thought they were acknowledging my joke but then they started asking questions like, "Are you deaf Catrid?"
"Are you dead?"
I replied, "I am not deaf or dead!!" but my words seemed to have no effect whatsoever on them. And i I have to confess, a strange sense of icy coldness was sweeping over me. I decided to prove to them that I wasn't dead, by finishing my delicious piece of cake I was having for lunch,but my hand passes right through the cake! I jumped up four feet into thin air, but nobody seemed to be interested in my gymnastics because they were all staring at my body below me!

It finally dawned on me that I was dead.

okay,at this point, I have got to tell you, all ghosts have special powers,those powers are ll related to either fire,water,earth,air or space. I was a fire ghost and was red in colour and my powers were that I could summon fire by stretching out my fingers and my hair was completely made out of fire.

Once you are defined as a ghost of one of the elements,you have to go and report to a centre, either The SGMA or The GJSA, (some ghosts even want to go to the SGVA- Super Ghost Villain Agency). I chose The SGMA (Super Ghost Mission Agency) as opposed to The GJSA (Ghost Job Selecting Agency). Well, if you got to the SGMA and get selected, then you can be sort of a ghost superhero and that's a job only the bravest can do.

I got through the test and went on to my first mission.
Since I was a junior at fighting the ghosts who entered the SGVA and
wanted to wreck latroms' lives (latroms = human beings)I got two other
junior partners,whom I quickly befriended and found out their powers - purple Stanley-space ghost,green - Jason - earth ghost.

We set off on our mission to destroy this svamp (water living vampires) that was going around licking latroms to make them svamps and spitting poison at grocery stores that contained garlic. We had this GPS (Ghost Positioning System) and found him wrecking Marks and Spencers and spewing poisonous spit everywhere. This was definitely noy a junior level monster!

We took our hand books and found out this was a senior level monster! But well, it didn't look so smart so we decided to fight it - Boy! Were we wrong!

Well, it wasn't smart but it did have more deadly weapons like poisoning spit and a tongue - if it gave you one lick you would become a svamp yourself. We made a plan that I would blast him with fire and weaken him, then Jason would make Marks and Spencers a garlic field, the svamp would run the other way where Stanley would be standing with a black hole to send the svamp away. So that's what happened.

When we got back we got badges of spectacular teamwork, and were transferred to a senior level. But unfortunately Stanley or Jason weren't on my team, two of these hulky,bulky guys were. I am very observant, so I immediately notices they were not using the same cellphones that everybody gets when joining the SGMA. So, I quickly called the authorities reporting two spies. But while trying to capture the spies, they accidentally killed me again,so now I can't be a superghost because now my soul is confines to the underworld and if you're wondering how I wrote this then here's your answer. I had to use this latrom to write this and this stupid latrom thinks she got hit with a great idea. But this is me,only me, not the latrom. So now you know.

About The Author

Niharika is the author of "Death by Passing the Parcel." She has written two other books "Hungry and Hungary" and "Feather and Heather's adventures". Her birthday is on the 13th of February and was born in the year 2000. She loves to read books herself,owns a dog and leads a happy life in Gurgaon.
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Hungry And Hungary

Hungry and Hungary
By Niharika
Muffin Publicators



I dedicate this story to Muffin my dog for being a lovely friend


Once in a land called ,'Squiggle Doggle' where the mountains were green, clouds were yellow,rivers were pink and the grass was blue, a monster was born.....In Squiggle Doggle the monsters' nature was what you name them. The monster was named....Hungry.Now whenever you saw him you started to feel hungry. Once you had finished eating and Hungry had paid your bill (because you would most probably make him),the minute you would look at him to thank him you would feel hungry again...and again. You would start to order again but this time you wouldn't thank the monster. So he begins to feel sad.He calls his friend Manners and Manners made you thank him again.(Then you start eating again and you say that you will pay the bill this time).Still, there were some smart people or some people who had the experience, they would greet him and pay the bill themselves. Or some even smarter people who wouldn't look at him in the first place.

So this story starts when Hungry wants to change his name.(You must be wondering why such an odd name.....because when he was born his mother was feeling hungry.His dad started calling Hungry. (In Squiggle Doggle,you can only change your name once in thirteen years). He was very excited because he was going to be thirteen tomorrow. Hw wanted to change his name because he was tired of feeling hungry. He thought of some names and listed them down. Here is the list:
Ship
Funny
Friendly
Kind

His mother 'Beauty' told him 'Ship' would be nice as at last he could go out more than sit in all day. 'Funny' would be a bit too much as people in Squiggle Doggle die of laughter (literally). 'Friendly' was cute but if he was friendly to enemies it wouldn't be pretty and if he was 'kind' to strangers......So in the end 'Ship' came out. He told everyone his name was 'Ship'.

Whoever he would look at would have the ability to make a ship in two minutes. As soon as Ship got used to his new name, he and Manners went out on ship they made. AT the beginning,steering it was easy but slowly the tide got rougher. Suddenly, the ship overturned. Manners screamed he couldn't swim, but Ship could, so he swam for all he was worth. Suddenly, he felt something beside him,it was Manners. He pulled him ashore and tried to find help,but he could not see a single soul around. Suddenly, he realized he had discovered a new land! He rushed back to Manners.By that time Manners had recovered and he blurted out the news to Manners and they started jumping up and down. "What do you think we should name it?",asked Ship?
"I think we should name it Hungary in honor of old name."said, Manners."Good idea", said Ship.

And that was the story of Hungry the monster and Hungary the new land.

The End

About The Author
The author's name is Niharika. She studies in IV B of the Shri Ram School Aravali. She is 10 years old and her birthday is on 13th February. She has good imagination and writes good adventure stories. She is alert and intelligent, She enjoys reading. She loves dogs and has a Golden Retriever named Muffin.