Contests

Story Contest: Mummies

There are millions of mummies in this issue! (Well, not that many, but a lot.) So for the March contest, everybuggy is dying to read your best story featuring a mummy. Muffin suggested that this month’s Cricket cover would be a great place to find inspiration. You might begin by taking a long look at the scene on the cover and asking yourself, who is the mummy in the opened case? A powerful pharaoh? A member of a prominent family? How did he or she live--and die? Is a priest in a jackal headdress attending the mummy, or the god Anubis himself? Why is the case partly open? And what mysteries might be hidden in the hieroglyphic writing on the walls?

Will you set your story in ancient times? Or imagine modern archaeologists entering a lost tomb and making an amazing discovery? There are millions of possibilities, and the choice is yours. Just send us your best mummy story--350 words or less--inspired by our cover. Everybuggy is climbing the walls with excitement, eager to learn what the hieroglyphs might reveal about their Egyptian ancestors.

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    1. Your contest entry must be your very own original work. Ideas and words should not be copied.
    2. If
      you're 14 years old or younger, your entry must be signed by your
      parent or guardian, saying it is your own original work, that no help
      was given, and granting Cricket permission to publish
      prizewinning entries in the July/August 2008 issue or on our Web site. If
      you're older than 14, you must sign your own work, verifying that it is
      original.
    3. Be sure to include your name, age, and full address on your entry.
    4. Only one entry per person, please.
    5. If you want your work returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for each entry.
    6. Incomplete
      entries cannot be considered. Your entry will be incomplete if you
      forget to include your age or a signature verifying that your work is
      original.
    7. Your entry must be received by 25 March 2008.
    8. Mail your entries to:

      Cricket League
      P.O. Box 300
      Peru, IL 61354