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Jay wrote a sci-fi story with the help of his cat Gremlin. Can you help Jay put in all missing full stops and capital letters? Gremlin says, ‘Use a pencil and thank me later.’

I decided to clone myself I thought I could send my clone to school while I stayed at home and played computer games it obviously had to be a secret I swore my cat Gremlin not to utter a single meow to anyone I saw Dr Frankenbrain in the school lab and explained I needed to finish my old chemistry project he let Gremlin be my guinea pig so long as he behaved himself all was going well until Gremlin spotted a red dot on the cloning machine’s controls and went mad chasing the light as well as its reflection on the wall Dr Frankenbrain jumped in to help me manage the silly cat the move was a disaster as the place was full of fragile instruments and dangerous equipment what I didn’t know was that my teacher was really clumsy he tripped over a cable and got zapped by the revving machine although he didn’t get cloned he became one fortieth of his normal size he was much smaller than Gremlin I asked Dr Frankenbrain what I should do to get him back to his normal size all I got back was a series of high-pitched squeaks Gremlin the mad mice chaser did not wait for an invitation he pounced on Dr Frankenbrain and ate him up in three superfast gulps a shame really because I couldn’t think of anyone else who could help me clone myself as I was tidying up the lab Gremlin gave out the loudest burp I’ve ever heard which actually turned out to be my teacher’s real voice…