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This story was chosen as a top 50 finalist for 500 Words 2024/25.

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The Vegetables and the Great Big Thaw by Isabelle H.

Once upon a time, there was this big freezer filled with lots of nice frozen vegetables. Every day the freezer would be opened and closed by the family that lived there and each time the freezer door opened the carrot could see straight across the kitchen to the fruit bowl. And in the fruit bowl was the most big, spikey, beautiful pineapple the carrot had ever seen. The carrot would look at the pineapple and wish they could be together, but Carrot was frozen solid in the freezer. But one day the freezer door didn't shut properly, and the vegetables started to thaw.

Drip, drip, drip. The ice melted into water and the vegetables started to move.

First, it was Carrot who tumbled out of the freezer with a SPLASH! Carrot pulled himself onto the bottom shelf. The whole of the kitchen floor turned into a big lake from all the melted ice. Then some peas dropped down with a bounce onto the bottom shelf. Then broccoli joined them.

Carrot waved at the pineapple from the bottom of the freezer. Carrot said to his vegetable friends 'Can I have help getting to the table where the fruit bowl is?'

All of the peas and the broccoli and the carrot lifted a giant Yorkshire pudding onto the water and everyone gets in. They use ice lollies to paddle across the kitchen floor flooded with water.

Suddenly they hear the cat flap open and shut and Jingles the cat leaps into the air away from the wet floor. It makes a massive wave that comes straight towards the vegetables in their boat. They all hold on tight but six peas cant hold on tight enough and fly into the water. The broccoli uses an ice lolly to lift them back up into the boat.

They get to the table and the peas make a tower for the carrot to climb up. Then suddenly all the peas fall down into the Yorkshire pudding boat. But the carrot is clinging onto the corner of the table. Carrot calls out for help. Help! Help! Carrot looks up and pineapple is looking down at him. Pineapple pulls carrot up onto the table. Carrot says 'Thank you for helping me.' Pineapple and Carrot look at each other and fall deeply in love. The End

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