This is a story I wrote for a third grade writing contest. I didn't win, probably because I procrastinated and was rushing on the last part. The ending is extremely anticlimactic. It is actually a version of a "picture book" that I had written when I was really little. In the writing contest, I tried to incorporate some pictures as well, even though it wasn't required. Here is the drawing on the cover:

What is this? I drew the hocks of the horse as triangles! 😂 The top of the picture is cut out because it has my name.

Short story about why I chose the name "Parriet" for the horse: I was obsessed with Breyer catalogs when I was little. Now, I have a huge collection of them. I was looking through a catalog and saw a horse named "Patriot". For some reason, I thought it said "Parriet" and thought that was a pretty name. When my third grade class was reading our stories after the writing contest, the other kids thought that Parriet was Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb. Wooow... 😂