Preparatory School Writer's Festival 2019 | Page 24

Guildford Grammar Preparatory School
Writing Festival
2019
Narratives
Student writing sample:
The Discovery of the Buckle
by Avanna Rohde
“I’m coming!” I shouted, we’re about to go the ‘Party of Life’
and we are dressed in our party clothes. What I’m wearing is a
checked shirt, ripped jeans and a bright fluoro green belt with
an old rusted buckle. The air feels thick and muggy and it smells
like chocolate biscuits and pineapple punch. I feel uncomfortable,
crowded by all the people surrounding me with all their sweaty
bodies from dancing so much.
I was just about to step inside to get some food where it was
even more crowded. For some reason I tripped over, and I looked
up to see a man towering over me looking curiously at my belt.
I turned onto my stomach and tried to get up, but he stopped
me and turned me around again. I look up again to see a gang
of men crowding around me and realize that I’m not in the party
room anymore.
What happened to the party, why am I in an apartment, in the
same party clothes as before? There’s a man wearing the same
buckle as me on his belt and I look to find it’s not there. I get up
and yell at him to give it back to me, but he seems to not hear
me, so I shout even louder than before, and he still doesn’t hear
me and walks right into me, but I dodge him. Weirdly enough,
he walks straight through the left side of my body leaving me
gobsmacked.
I tested it out again by walking straight into the table and what
do you know, I walked straight through it and tried to figure
out what had just happened, but nothing came to my head.
I looked back at the man who was now standing at the door
ready to leave his apartment and I quickly followed him before
he went out the door so I wouldn’t get locked inside, but then
I remembered that I could walk straight through the door, but I
went to catch up with him anyway so I could find out where he
was going. He got into his car and I tried to catch up with him
alongside the car and found out that I could actually beat the car
easily without getting tired.
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When the man finally got out of the car, he went into a run
down factory but on the inside it was the opposite, it looked
brand new and sparkling clean. There was mountains and
mountains of boxes filled with something inside them which I
couldn’t see. Then I heard someone calling out a name, wait,
they were calling out to the man that I’ve been following. His
name was Jeff. Jeff said to the lady who called his name to load
up all the boxes into the car. I found out that the ladies name is
Mariana. She started picking up the boxes and asking everyone
else in the room to do the same.