Candy Catastrophe

• Jasminder Daley, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2015

...Foscue comee candee grivell. I finish reading the weird message when I feel like I'm in a swirly whirly tunnel. Colours transform around me. What’s happening? Where am I going? I heard someone calling me: ‘Frankie Elle’.
I'll tell you what happened. I was cleaning the attic when I stumbled upon a magical kind of looking box. I unlocked the latch. Inside I found a message in some sort of fantasy language. I started reading it and that was when I felt like I was getting transported.
I wake up in a daze. Then I look around. It looks like I’m in a candy world! Ahhh! I look at myself. I’m a gingerbread girl not an ordinary human! What’s this? It looks like a cage. That’s when I notice a gingerbread bird, that’s stuck in another cage. I find out her name is Tina and she explains to me that we have got trapped by the gingerbread hunters. If we don’t escape they’ll eat us! That’s when I came up with a smart plan to eat through the cages. A moment later we were free!
That’s when I see the same message I was reading when I got transported. I run over to it but just before I grab it a bird made of Mentos puts it high up in a peppermint tree. I’m happy though because straight away Tina flew up to the tree and grabbed the message. Soon we had said our goodbyes so I read the message and got transported home again.
I wake up in my bed. Was it a dream?