Newsletter MARCH 2025 | Page 57

HONORS Karina Eide Young Writers Awards

NOLAN, 13

Washington DC

Lab School of Washington

I would like to thank my family and my teacher Ms Amy

Spirit Rocket

 

I was preparing to turn off the lights and go to sleep when I heard some sort of static, that you hear from a TV. It was coming from outside, so I decided to go to the back door and check it out. The only problem was my dad. He's always downstairs watching TV. But when I went downstairs he was not there! He was outside and there was a light shining on him. He looked hypnotized. Then, just when I was thinking of running upstairs to tell Mom, I started to feel dizzy and sleepy and then I think I collapsed. 

 

When I woke up I felt like… I was not in my house? That's when I realized I was in space in a spaceship, but what happened next was really strange. I felt a lot of emotions. I noticed my dad was waking up right next to me. He was calm too. He wanted to find a way out and I did too, but I also wanted to explore the spaceship. The spaceship wasn't one of the spaceships from 2025. You know, those sharp pointy rockets that look like towers. This one kind of looked like a ship from a sci-fi movie, so we decided to open this random door we found right in front of us. And standing right before us was…my grandfather! He looked like he was controlling the spaceship. My dad's eyes were wide open! I started to tear up. I felt scared, sad, angry, happy, fearful, anxious. He turned around and I was calm again. My dad’s eyes started to come back to normal. The figure standing in front of us raised his arms and the static stopped. He set his eyes on me and my dad and he smiled and I think he started to tear up. I think he was crying. He was happy to see me and my dad again, his son and his grandchild. I snapped back to reality and I started to talk to him.

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HONORS Karina Eide Young Writers Awards