Story
In Language Arts, we’re reading the book A Wrinkle In Time. Each student was to write a short story(less than 700 words) that had some of the characteristics of a Fantasy and Science-Fiction story. Here’s mine:
I stared vacantly into the flames, the only source of life in the dark cave. Lizards scurried here and there as bats flew overhead. I didn’t know what planet I was on, only that it wasn’t Earth. Sitting beside me was John. I felt as if I knew him, though I’d never met him before in my life.
John had mysteriously appeared when I had left the ruins of my ship, the lone survivor of a failed attempt at teleporting spacecrafts. The attempt had been meant to land on Mars. They’d been equipped with tracking equipment that would still be good at the border of the galaxy, but I couldn’t seem to find where I was, so I must have left the galaxy.
Daylight came, if it could even be called that. Instead of one source of light, on this world, light seemed to burst from everything. I looked at John and saw that light came from him too, but when I looked at my hand, there was dullness to its color that made me look away.
I glanced at the ground to see the shadow of a figure that was standing beside me. I whirled around and saw that the shadows on the ground looked exactly like the figures that they had represented. Suddenly something akin to a rapid screeching filled the air.
Slowly the screeching started to make sense to me. There were words to the their screeching. As the words formed, so did a tune. It was a song! The song was something about a hole in the bottom of the see. Every two seconds or so a thunderous clap would ring from the shadows.
The song and clapping were deafening me. I clamped my hands over my ears to dry and block out the sounds. I screamed but couldn’t hear my voice. I looked to John hoping he could help me, but he wasn’t there.
In John’s place was what looked like a small star. The star radiated not only such a bright light that the shadows slowly dissolved, but it also radiated beauty. The beauty of the star forced me to look away. The moment I looked away I felt frozen.
One of the shadows stood in front of me, screeching louder and faster than ever. The shadow was approaching me when I heard the most beautiful sound in the world. I blinked and felt warmth flow throughout my body as I heard the sound again, coming from the star.
The sound coming from the star the and screeching seemed to battle each other for an eternal moment before the screeching stopped and the shadow disappeared. I fell on the ground and stared into the endlessly blank sky as I drifted off into the marvelous sound coming from the star.
