A Cold Day On The Beach

• Aditi Patil, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2021

Swoosh! The waves crashed into the rocks as the frosty breeze blew against my face creating a light trickle of water. The wind gave me goosebumps while making my teeth chatter. The sand was starting to form a thin glacier and was accumulating sand as the force of my feet was holding it down.

Today, unexpectedly I went to the coastal beach to appreciate the extreme warmth from the intensely glowing sun beams and the refreshing cool waters of the sea. It was a fine sunny morning until the bright scintillating sun had disappeared all of a sudden and everything felt like it was going to be a day in Antarctica with heavy snow chunks piling up into prodigious snow castles. The waves impacted the temperature of the sand and instantaneously the flaming hot sand became a massive floe. My legs immediately thrusted in the frosty sand for as long as what seemed forever.

It was a bewildering mystery and my eagerness grew every second to solve this mind boggling investigation. Until… I pinched myself so hard that I might have even compressed my blood, but it was a dream all along!