A short story I wrote at the age of ten. Well, I say wrote, but in fact (in eerie foreshadowing of my maturer struggles with finishing projects and love of peripherals) what I actually wrote was…
the contents page
Chapter 1 – The Exam Day
— “— 2 – The Kidnapping
—“— 3 – Weedkillers
—“— 4 – Design & Making
—“— 5 – The Last Stand of Base 2?
the opening page of chapter 1
THE EXAM DAY!
Chapter 1.
Saturday is the worst day of the week and this one was really bad. It was the day of my entrance exam to King Edwards School. I was eating my breakfast and reading a comic and I needed some more milk. “Pass the milk Dad,” I said with my mouth full. He put his paper down to pass the milk and it was then that I saw the Headlines….
the back-cover blurb, on the back cover of the little notebook I had commandeered…
A boy goes to an exam and is taken 3,000,000yrs into the future. The humans want him to design a weapon to destroy plants which have evolved into Giants.
Can he do it before they make a mazzive raid on the Base?
Will his weedkiller weapons work?
FIND! OUT! BY! READING! THIS! BOOK!!!
UK - £1.50
NZ - $5.50
Notice the happy acceptance of evolution! Must have been in my unreflective phase before I went to that seminar by creationists ;-)
