The Future Car

• Kylin Shi, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2009

What do you think about a man who lived in a
car? I'd think he'd be a good driver. But could you imagine? It isn't
him that drives the car, It's the car that drives itself!

One day, when the car started going again, I saw it was going to somewhere
out of town. I hopped on the car with the man. Then, the car started flying!! It
was like an airplane!!!


I asked the man, "Where are we going?" waited for a while. He didn't reply. He started to fade away.
I heard bombing and fires. When I looked down from the window, I
realised I was in the past! I also found I was in the car by myself! I
thought it was a dream but it wasn't. Someone shot at my car! I was
really scared in the flying car but then, I remembered
the man had put some heavy things in the boot before we left. I didn't
know but I thought the things might help me, so I tried to climb in to the boot. I was glad I'd
practised my monkey bars because the edge of the car was as slippery
as sweat. Finally, I got to the boot. I opened it. The smell was so
stinky like a toilet. I was glad he put some weapons in the boot. I
quickly took them out. Suddenly I started to scream, "Aaah" when a huge
cockroach crawled on me.

Everyone knows I'm scared of cockroaches in school and I
usually shake them off, so that's what I did. Then I heard a soldier
screaming "Aaa! Help! A cockroach!" I laughed, how could a solider be
scared of cockroaches? I thought I made trouble for them.

I held the weapons tight and jumped down before the car was about to crash down. It wasn't too high to get hurt as I thought. But... when the car landed, there wasn't any fire or explosion. Is this a dream? I asked myself.