A Crack In The Rift

• Allison Cotter
• Short Story
• 2011

It is the year 1500 and my name is Jenny, Jenny McDonald. I love to read. It was around 12:00 during the day and I fell asleep in my favourite chair. I was half asleep when I felt a pulling force. I then felt that I was not sitting in a chair but felt like I was floating, the next thing I hear is my mother and Father shouting
“JENNY COME BACK!”
I hear my mother crying I want to yell but something is preventing me from doing so. The next thing that happened was that my dress became even lighter and I was then wearing a suite.

I awake to lying in a leather chair I see stars outside my window it started to scare me but what scared me most of all was I could see the Earth, I look at the clock it say’s 12:02 and then it says the year is 4089 I thought that has got to be wrong the year is 1500. I was startled by a beeping noise in my pocket it was a square metal thing with a picture of something funny on it and the words mum calling, I unflipped this thing and said “Hello?”

“JENNY” replied the voice, it was my mum, she said “Come on you’ve taken you’re present out for a spin long enough I expect you to be home in less than five minutes.” She stopped talking. I was bewildered, I put the thing back in my pocket, and leant on a button by accident it said
“ship 3 are you ready to part space and return home?”
I pressed a few buttons then came to one red button so I pressed it and said “Yes”
“Well I’m so sorry but we have detected dangerous life forms on your ship other than yourself” there was a pause then it started again “we will be sending a missile”
“No” said Jenny in great haste

Even though she didn’t know what a missile was she assumed it was bad, then the voice started again
“10, 9, 8, 7”
“NO,” said Jenny. Sounding very distressed.
“4, 3, 2, 1”

A big black thing came shooting towards her and hit her ship. In the next second she felt queezey and was unable to move and she felt like she was being pulled again, she felt the suit disappear and her silky dress return, and her book fell back in her hand she heard her father Daniel call out to her mother
“ROSE JENNYS BACK” I heard my parents running.

I opened my eyes to see both my parents leaning over me with worried expressions on their faces. It was the year 1500.