Ocean Madness

• Cassandra Reynolds, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2011

Ocean Madness

I see a glimmering light, doom, a shadow, teeth, gills, myself and the ocean. I take a deep breath that only wastes time. My blood is rushing 1000 miles an hour. I look back. I see a shadow. There is motion around me. I remember nothing I have learnt. Suddenly I see a light, a search light in fact.
I swim to the surface and yell “I am here save me, save me! “
They pass me I sink. I try to remember the memories and ask myself how did I get in this mess? I could not remember. I must have hit my head on a rock or something like that. I sit down and something sharp touches me. I look downwards. I see a clam holding a beautiful pearl. It is breathtaking. I grab it and swam to the surface, it scraps me as I’m swimming and I shriek in pain as it touches the salty sea water.
As I was telling this story to everyone at the awards ceremony, people started to get bored so I concluded my story by saying. “But don’t take my word for it see for yourself.” As I started to walk off the stage they started to cheer so I felt proud but then again it could just be because I was going, any way I took it as a compliment.
A clam fell out of my pocket and I started to question myself “How did that happen?”

By Cassandra Reynolds 5/6V Upper Coomera State College