Prize-winning short story

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Claudia Kaplan, a Year 8 student at Sydney’s Moriah College, was the Overall Winner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s Writenow! Competition. She won the award for her short story “Give It TIme”. Read it on J-Wire… Give it Time By Claudia Kaplan Part I Joel 24th August 2006 It had been 260 days since the world ended in the Flash. Even now, no one knew exactly what the flash was, or why it had turned all electronic devices into slush. And no one knew why most of the adults who’d seen it either had died… or become something else. Petey said it was some kind of attack by aliens from outer space, but I wasn’t so sure about that. Petey thought everything was to do with aliens from outer space. Someone sounded the alarm, a screeching blast of a trumpet that echoed through the underground bunker that was home for me and about a hundred other kids. Kira couldn’t actually play the trumpet, but she was excellent at making a noise. I rolled off my bed, grabbing for the crossbow that I always kept beside me and running for the trapdoor that lead outside. Probably just a false alarm. We’d already had three this week. But when I scrambled through the trapdoor and into the open air, I saw it – the tell‐tale cloud in the distance, caused by thousands of clawed feet kicking up the dirt as they ran. The Screamers were coming. They— “Joel, dinner time. Come downstairs please.” “Ok. Coming.” It always annoys me when she disturbs me in the middle of writing my book. The first novel I have ever attempted. At this rate, it will never be finished. My Goodness she irritates me! “Joel!” “Coming…” “Now!” […]

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