Death Becomes

• Kai Woodward, Grade 2, Balgowlah North Public School
• Short Story
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Read Write Repeat 2015' competition

In a dark and dusty graveyard I prayed to God that my mother would come back alive and I wept and cried until the tears of Love dropped onto her bones. A clap of thunder struck and the ground began to shake as the tears brought them to life. I didn’t know it but I had magic tears. I ran home to my empty house. I had a terrible night. I had a dream skeletons arose from the dead and started taking over the land. The next morning I woke up and found skeletons everywhere. I jumped under my bed and said in a quiet, scared voice “I wish this never happened.”