Just weeks before Halloween 2022, the young writers of Almaty, Kazakhstan, gathered at StudyRoom Language Center to compete in a very special writing competition. They created all-original stories based on picture prompts, and they had only one hour to make the most memorable creation possible.

These are those stories.

In this book, you'll see the wild creativity of writers as young as 10. English is not their first language, and yet they've crafted something truly memorable.