50 Years
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Varshasri Vasudevan, Grade 6, East Beechboro Primary School
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Short Story
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2016
Excellence Award in the 'Word Zone 2016' competition
I remember… the nightmare …50 years ago.
I jump up on my feet.
“Oh, my bedroom”. I say quietly to myself. I climb up the stairs. Is it a dream?
My shoulders slumped as I closed the door extremely quickly. It’s real…
I couldn’t believe it. The war, it is real. It’s all coming back to me I almost got hit by a nuclear bomb, at least I think it was a nuclear bomb. I was in a coma for 50 years but I haven’t aged. I’m still 15.
Wait, how do I know I was in a coma for 50 years? Logically I shouldn’t be able to know any of this, unless if it wasn’t a nuclear bomb that almost hit me. I should go outside and see what is happening.
Aliens, at war with Earth, that wasn’t a nuclear bomb, I have powers I can hear, see, know all and reverse or forward time. My head was thinking weird thoughts. Weird it’s like someone’s in my head talking to me” “Woah” I gasped when I looked outside, there were aliens at war with Earth, and they were shooting very familiar looking bombs. “Those were the things that hit me” I said to no one in particular. This is very weird but it explains everything! I do have powers. I knew I was in a coma for 50 years and I did that thing where I kind of predicted the aliens and the bomb I even knew I had powers!
Then suddenly whoosh…..crash! One of those bomb things blew up my house. Luckily, I wasn’t hurt, I looked at the bomb, and it doesn’t seem radioactive. I picked up the thing and popped it in my pocket.
Where is everyone? Mum, Dad, Maya, Patrick.
Then, suddenly aliens start shooting those bombs from above. I heard one say “foreign species informally known as humans sighted in sector 4S prepare to quarantine or terminate”.
I gulped I saw where everyone was (using my powers.) They’re in some sort of pink-purple goo frozen solid but I can’t get there it’s too far up.
“The aliens!” I forgot about them!”
I ran to a corner behind the ruins and rubble that used to be my house. A single tear escaped from my eye then more follow as I pick up a photo of my parents, my brother Patrick and my sister Maya.
“I miss them so much.”
“Why am I so shy and insecure, why can’t I be like Maya?’’
“I bet even the miraculous powers I have aren’t enough to beat the aliens. Well it isn’t the power’s fault, I’m a hopeless failure. I just want to know how to fix this.”
“An idea popped into my head, and now I do!”
I have powers to control time!
I tried to visualize reversing time. In the blink of an eye time was reversed. The alien attack never happened and no one knows that I saved the human race except me…