Funny!! This made me laugh and now my stomach hurts. Fooey. My name is Amanda too. Nice to meet a fellow Amanda. Loved this story...will probably read one of the others too.

Amanda

Wow! "We are so poor!" No one else could ever have thought of that! Fantastic writing, as usual, Aki. Nice and humourous, as well.

I love it! Especially this line:‘ “Once upon a time, the great, fabulous, and in all other ways wonderful Amanda H. returned to her cardboard box after a long, grueling day at school. Well, actually, it wasn’t exactly a cardboard box, by definition. It was just a really, really pathetic excuse for a house. It was crumbling. It was peeling. It was molding. It was also infested with small, annoying, squeaky creatures that came up to Amanda and snipped at her heels as she trudged through the doorway on this particular day.Oh, wait, those were just her younger sisters.” ’

Very intriguing. Keep up the great work!