Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Winners 2020 | Page 19

Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2020
Fiction – Group 6
WINNER
The Witch and the Hong Kong People
Korean International Springboard, Lowther, Jessica – 13
One Saturday morning at Prince Edward flower market in Hong Kong some people
were taking pictures of the beautiful flowers. As they did they enjoyed the vibrant smell and
splendor of each flower around. All of a sudden from a puff of smoke there was a witch who
froze the people. The flower vendors got angry, so the witch froze them also. She then stole all
the flowers, captured the people with her big black net and brought them back to her house.
When they arrived the witch put them in a cage and unfroze them. She did this because
she wanted to put the people in soup and eat them. She put up all the flowers she stole around
her house and got ready to make the soup with all her ingredients. Then the witch gathered
some wood and made a fire for her humongous pot. The witch boiled some water in the
pot and when the fire was almost out, and only a few ashes were left she slowly added the
ingredients for the magic soup and mixed it with her broom stick. When she was about to
take the people out of the cage to add to her recipe, a magic fairy came to save the people
inside the cage and assist them one by one to get out of the witch house. As they walked out
of the house the witch shouted and tried to freeze them all again. The fairy used her wand to
safely save everyone.
They were whisked away on the wind over the Greater Bay Area and back to the flower
stall in Prince Edward. The witch was never seen again.
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