For this edition, yet again, our creative writing entries were amazing! We asked our fellow young writers to let their imagination run wild and take part in our “Unexpected beginnings” writing competition. The brief was to craft a captivating story, poem, or piece of creative writing but with a twist: The first sentence had to begin with “I didn’t mean to…Here is our winner, Issie Mason.
I didn’t mean to drop my mug of coffee. But I did, and the shattering echoed through my bloodstream as my adrenaline was pumping. The screams felt so silent, and the silence felt so loud.
I looked up. A menacing ombre of dusty reds and yellows towered above me, covering me as I suffocated in a deep flow of ash and smoke. I could smell the fumes travelling through my body. I froze and dropped to the floor. The remains of the vast office building landed on the ground beside me like a feather.
The building was the perfect centre piece to the once majestic city, which was now a wreckage filled with ringing sirens. But somehow, all the alarms blended into one collage of disaster.
Please note: All articles written by young people are fictional in nature and nothing is to be taken as fact.
By Issie Mason, Year 8, Robert Smyth
Photo credit: ds-grafikdesign via Pixabay
Second winner
Because one winner isn't enough we are thrilled to reveal that our second winner is Carly Bennet from Robert Smyth
