Our Creative Writing Competition, “Stranded on a Desert Island,” invited young writers to explore themes of survival, isolation, and discovery. We are delighted to be now working with Kibworth Mead Academy, and this short story is translated from Turkish.
I had fallen asleep on the boat trip and when I opened my eyes, I was alone on a deserted island.
There was no one, I was very scared and soaked, I was cold. After a while I went deep into the forest, maybe I would find something useful? I couldn’t find anything, there were only animals, trees, grass. Suddenly something hit my head, and I fainted.
When I woke up, there were coconuts all over me and I had a huge wound on my head. When I put my hand to my head, blood came to my hand, it hurt a lot, I was even more afraid.
I started to panic, and I was very hungry, I needed to eat something, I decided to eat the coconut that had fallen on my head… I ate it all, I was full. The wound on my head hurt, I didn’t know what to do. I tore off a piece of my t-shirt and wrapped it on my head, the bleeding stopped.
It was night. No one came to pick me up. I was alone. I built a hut for myself and lit a fire. I decided I needed to find help, I decided to collect materials, I collected fallen branches and collected the stones near the sea and tried to light a big fire.
I needed something to help ignite the fire and thought about it for a while. The stones I had collected near the sea were in the hut but I thought that I should get stones from a cave I had seen previously, which was situated further inland, because the stones near the sea were wet.
I had arrived at the cave and a sound came from inside, it was like the sound of a chicken. Suddenly a chicken and a rabbit jumped on me! I was scared at first, then I thought that I could be friends with them, so I took them in my arms and headed towards the place where I was going to build my hut near the sea, but I was going to wash the chicken first! Then I went back to the forest, I picked some fruit and found some stones and wood. On the way back, I heard a helicopter! “Yes!” I shouted, “they have come to get me!” I was happy to have been rescued but of course I took my new rabbit and chicken friends with me.
