The Money Tree

Okay, before I get started I just want you to know that I did this story as a project for my honorsEnglish class in 10th grade. I know its probably not that great but please try to be nice about it. Its a short story I had to create literally from just on sentence of inspiration. The "prompt" was from Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut and it was supposed to be Kilgore Trout's story The Money Tree. So it goes...