A Big Nightmare

• Flynn Davies, Grade 3
• Short Story
• 2015

My mouth was drier than a desert. All the colours started dripping down the walls. Now it had started outside of my view. My skin went white and everything was shaking without a single noise. The building was also shaking and I shivered with fear. I quickly looked out the window and there was fire burning, people running with fear on their faces.
Suddenly the doors were blocked up with grey cracked rubble and the only way out was the window. I felt like ice was in my chest.
I jumped ‘Ahhhhhhhhh!’. 'Freedom!'