3012 by Tanay Arora

This was written by Tanay as a response to the prompt : The doorbell rang. I opened the door and....

3012 

Tanay Arora

The doorbell rang. I opened the door and to my surprise, I found myself looking at a skyscraper under my house. The door of my house was on the outer side of the skyscraper. I felt my stomach do a sickening somersault. The person who had rung my doorbell was a mail man. I was so surprised to see him flying outside the door that I fainted.

When I woke up I was in a totally different house. A young man came to me. He looked a lot like me. He said that his name was Alex and that he was my grandson! I was very puzzled by all this. The first question that came to my mind was, “Where am I?”

Alex told me that I was in the year 3012. He said that recently a group of scientists had succeeded in making a time machine and he and a few others had been assigned to test it.

One of them had accidentally directed a small asteroid towards the earth. This had enough power to wipe out our compound. To save me and all the others, we had been transported to the future. Alex gave me a tour of the future Earth. I saw everyone either walking or cycling except for a few. These people were flying using non polluting flying shoes.

Alex also said that there were machines that produced oxygen and this had helped humans survive. In the markets, I saw new gadgets that depended on new technology that I was unfamiliar with.

I stayed there for a few hours. Then Alex said that the asteroid had been stopped and that I could go home. Sadly all that I had seen would have to be erased from my memory and then…..then…..what happened? What am I doing in bed so late?

A dragon in the bathtub

This was a session in which the students were given a prompt and had to continue the story. The following is a story written by one of my students who is just ten years old.

Dragon in a bathtub

Paul was late for school. He ran into the bathroom to brush his teeth and tripped over something.  A long, thick green tail was hanging out of the bathtub. Paul pulled the shower curtain back, and there was a dragon! A dragon in the bath tub!

Paul stared at the dragon. The dragon gave him a dirty look. “Do you mind?” said the dragon. “I’m trying to take a bath!”

Paul had to do something quick! He stepped back. “What are …..you doing…here?” Paul choked the words out. “I will ….call the cops on you.”

The dragon grinned and said, “Would you? I have come to tour the earth with some of my dragon friends. But unfortunately I got separated from them.” As the dragon spoke these words a puff of smoke erupted from his nose.

The dragon slowly emerged from the bathtub. Paul could see its whole body now. The dragon’s skin was scaly with some soap still on it. It had huge claws which could slice almost anything. It smelled like raw fish and seaweed. The dragon had a huge horn on its head and its teeth were as sharp as knives and it looked as if it might have a huge bite force!

The dragon came towards Paul and said, “Will you take me for a tour of the earth? I have wings” “Y…yes” Paul managed to say. “Sit on my back and we can leave!” said the dragon excitedly.

“First, we will go and see the pyramids of Egypt,” said Paul.

The dragon soared through the air and pointed at food stalls to stop for a break through out the journey. When the two of them reached the pyramids, they went into one and flew to the top of another.

They were on top of a pyramid talking, when suddenly the dragon sneezed and fire erupted from his nose. The pyramid was on fire!

They flew away as fast as they could. “I want to go home!” wailed the dragon.

Then suddenly a much bigger dragon appeared from nowhere and said, “I see food!”

The other dragon looked a bit like Paul’s dragon, but it was a lot more ferocious. It had bloodshot eyes and its skin was a very dark shade of black. The dragon had rows of sharp teeth.

It roared and charged at Paul, but Paul steered his dragon out of the other dragon’s way. Paul and his dragon fought fiercely, but they were no match for their enemy. Just then a group of dragons came and chased the bad dragon away.

“Thank you for saving our friend,” said a red dragon who looked like their leader. “I hope our little friend here did not cause you any trouble.”

“Trouble!” yelled Paul. “This dragon which you call small, almost got me killed!”

“It will not happen again,” said the red dragon. “We are going back home.”

“Goodbye!” said Paul and the dragons flew back to where they came from.

“I flew on a dragon and burned a pyramid in one day!” muttered Paul. “What a day!”

Written by Arjun Chauhan aged 10.