Flooding Dreams

• Isabella Hammond, Grade 4, Livingstone Christian College
• Short Story
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Horizon of Dreams 2018' competition

I'm taking a walk in the park, under the cherry blossom trees when suddenly, THE TREES ARE FALLING DOWN! I'm running as fast as I can while the trees fall one by one behind me! The ground is shaking! I fall down and I see the tree falling on top of me! I wake up in the hospital and I discover that the Doctors are bandaging me up. In the middle of the night, I escaped carefully out of the window. Then out of nowhere, a tree falls down close by. I take a look and there's something rumbling. I hear big knocks on the ground! I go closer to get a better view and A GIANT WAVE IS COMING MY WAY! So I just RUN FOR MY LIFE!
I get home and the window is smashed into smithereens! I gently walk inside and my family is shaking! There's a big wave, followed by a storm, coming through the backyard! We evacuate the house and shelter in a huge building. I see some major cuts and bruises on my body, so I find a leaf that blew in through the broken glass and use it to stop the blood. I go downstairs where it is safer. Suddenly, the room started to quickly fill up with water! I try to break out, but I'm trapped! So I smash the glass just as the water reached my neck! I jump out the window with my family! We run back home, miserably, thinking, "WHERE WILL WE LIVE NOW!” Then I open the rusty mailbox and there's a bill and a letter from the royals saying I've earned two wishes for such bravery!
I wished for wealth and health! Two weeks later. I had what I wished for!
I wake up and remember my dream! I was walking under the cherry blossom trees. So I go back to the park and it seems magical. I wonder...