I Am Home!

• Maddi Taylor, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2009

I was walking, walking through the most horrifying thing of my life, and well it wasn't just a thing it was a big dark forest with all noises all through it. The noises were so loud i could hear bats not birds and little creatures running across the path so fast that they were gone in a flash. I was so scared, my heart was pounding so fast that i couldnt feel a beat inside. every step i took, i could hear the crackling noise of the leaves and twigs under my feet. I was so terrified that i closed my eyes and that was a bad idea because i tripped over and fell face flatted, and as i opened my eyes all i see is a man, a man that wore boots and a funny hat, but i couldn't see him very well because it was dark. Then after i long gaze into my eye he walked away, it seemed like he wasn't afraid of this place and that he was used to the dark. I got up and kept walking, i could still hear the noises all round me but suddenly it stopped, and then i stopped i looked around and just saw eyes, eyes from the trees and the...... i ran, ran for my life, puffing hard and deep, and just as i stopped to catch my breath, i saw light it was amazing, i then got up and started running and as i ran the light got bigger, and bigger until i was out at last, i was free from that scary place. And then i said
"I AM HOME".