Just for the heck of it, I'm going to enter a short story I wrote for my language arts class. It's not completely devoid of errors and it's kind of lengthy, so I will just plop the URL down here.
http://www.rescreatu.com/forum/cat/arts/writing/the-box-short-story-for-school-/~page/1/
It's a little science fictiony, but I meant it to be fantasy originally. ;)