Technical Difficulties

• Amy Teune, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2015

I’m sitting on my computer, typing a story. Boring, right? I’m Becca and I’ve almost finished the story, thank goodness.
Suddenly, I hear a loud, ear-splitting, low-pitched screeching noise. I felt myself spinning around in circles, when just a few minutes ago I was sitting on a chair at my computer. As I slide down a dark tornado, anxious and curious, I see a bright light in front of me. Am I dead? Nope. Am I injured? Probably mentally, but not physically. I slide out to the bright light and land on a soft, cushion-like object. I look down and find that it’s a Windows logo. I look around myself, confused and dazed. My surroundings are a gradient blue from a top corner of the screen to the opposite bottom corner, with two ribbons of green and lighter blue stretching beautifully across my surroundings. I see a bundle of icons, some look like folders, some look like papers, and one looks like a piano, and there are oodles more on the right side of me. They each have words under them, I read one of the papers, and it reads; “Microsoft Word 2010”?
It hits me like a bundle of bricks, I’ve been sucked into my own computer. I jump onto the Microsoft Word logo. It expands swiftly, taking up the whole screen. I get pushed onto the bottom of the screen. I should try something else. I activate Voice Recognition, and say; “Open on-screen keyboard.” The keyboard pushes me upward. “Turn off”, I yelled. I jump onto the keys on the board, and I spell out “SOS. Stuck in computer, HELP” and decide that’s all I need.
That was tiring, but I climb onto the scroll bar and it goes up to the top. I jump onto the settings on the top and change the font size to 95. I jump to the minimize button and get pushed onto the desktop again. I work my way up to the Skype icon to call my mum to get me out of here. But on my way up I fall into the rubbish bin icon! I fall until I land in a scrappy word document. I climb out slowly, and then the cursor starts moving!
Someone is on my computer!
The cursor clicks on the wobbling rubbish bin icon and shows a new file called Becca, and the icon is me! I jump up and down and run around. The cursor clicks on me, and drags me to my SOS message. I point at it and jump onto the cursor. The cursor moves toward it slowly, then stops, and moves toward the menu button and shuts down the computer.
I feel a windy sensation rush through me and I start spinning; I know where I’m headed. I fall onto the floor of my office and find my sister on my computer, freaking out.
I start crying, then laughing, and my sister does the same. I guess I’ll survive.