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May's Magic Horseshoe
By Daceria

Once upon a time there lived a young girl named May. May was fifteen
and loved playing sports. May was terrible at every sport she tried and
no matter what she always lost.
One day May was walking all by herself feeling depressed that no matter
how hard she tried, she would never be good at sports. Then from out
of nowhere there was a horseshoe laying behind a bush. On it, it said
"this horseshoe is a piece of junk. Signed, Kevin. May picked it up and
took it home. She thought that maybe her father Allen could teach her
how to play horseshoes.
Her father took a week off so that his daughter May could learn how to
play horseshoes and one week later May knew how to play and was good
at it. Her parents were glad that she had found her sport. May entered a
horseshoe contest and won a brand new pair of skates.
May kept winning and winning until one day, a boy named Dalton was in
the finals with her. Dalton was the champion of all horseshoe games. He
was sixteen, tall, and was cute. Dalton came over and told May she didn't
stand a chance in the final toss. Dalton went first and got two tens and a
nine. There was only one way to beat his score. May needed a perfect
score. She grabbed the horseshoe she had found one day and was going
to throw it when the judges said she must use their horseshoes. May put
her horseshoe down and threw the horseshoe in her hand and got ten,
ten, and ten. May did it, she won at a sport!
Dalton came over and gave May her medal. She put it around her neck
and smiled as she left the game field. The next day she erased the writing
on her horseshoe. Kevin must have been bad at sports too. Then she put
it in a glass case for next year.
Dalton called the next day and asked May if she wanted to be treated to
lunch. May said yes and ever since May has believed that it wasn't the
horseshoe that was magic it was pure talent. The next day she went with
Dalton to lunch.