Submitted 4/24/02 by Emmy
Horsey with a Rainbow
I considered myself an awesome artist when I was in the 4th grade, and I thought (being the weirdo kid that I was) that everyone else totally loved my art work too. So, I started to make up this collection of pictures that I drew that I decided that I would sell to the other kids in me class for 5 or 10 cents. Yup, I was going to sell my funny-looking pictures of horses and cows to other kids. And do you know what the crazy thing was, the kids in my class actually bought them!!! I started getting orders placed of "a horsey with a rainbow in the background." My business was flourishing, I was bringing home up to a dollar or two a day. But then one day I just stopped, I don't know why either, I was making a pretty decent living for a kid my age. I guess that it wasn't meant to be...