The Monster in the Cafeteria

by Tina Connolly

I HATE 11:29. That’s when breakfast has worn off. My belly is empty like an ice-cream cone when the ice cream is licked out—a dry, sugary shell with spitty smears. It growls loud and fierce, as though a Hungry Monster just snuck into our school. Everyone goes quiet at my enormous, embarrassing stomach sounds. My best friend Joey laughs, but it’s not my fault. Hungry Monster is loose, and Joey will be sorry! Hungry Monster is humongous. He is starving, starvering, starvatious! He doesn’t wait his turn in line. He thumps down the hall to the cafeteria, flinging tough fifth graders against the walls. He knocks the music teacher through a bass drum like it’s tissue paper. Hungry Monster will snarf the pizza, devour the applesauce, and slurp the chocolate…

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