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THE ENGLISH SCHOOL MA GA ZINE 2022 THE ENGLISH SCHOOL MA GA ZINE 2022
green leaves bobbed up and down. To my left my sister walked AFLOAT
The narrow winding path dipped and climbed through the
forest’s uneven ground as far as the eye could see. The sky was a
calming blue with not a cloud in sight. Trees stood in clusters as
they hopped around dancing together happily while their emerald,

quietly, her long dark hair falling gracefully at her side around her
almond shaped face. I blinked. Now the figure next to me was My hand is being held. Soft fingers trace over my wrinkles, over
ginger… “Mum?” And I was falling…falling…falling and then round stories I have told and days I have forgotten. They run over the
and round and round I was swirled in circles, stranded in the ocean thrombosed veins, popping like wild rivers through my thin skin.
on a small lifeboat. They squeeze my brittle bones, too hard. I groan, a waste of what
It was night. Almost pitch black, the only light provided came little energy I have left.
from the moon. The water was dark, the waves were colossal. I felt Beep. Beep. Beep…
sweaty and dry even though I could see only water surrounding A sob.
me, and my skin and clothes were soaked. And then I was falling… Rushed Footsteps toward me, fumbling, fiddling with the tubes
falling…falling. and catheters.
Never ending desert all around. It was daylight again, but the A disc of frozen cold on the loose skin of my chest, bare millimeters
sun attacked every inch of my skin. The feeling of thirst burned in from my frail ribs. Thump. Thump. My heart beats twice. The third
the back of my throat. I had no energy left in my body and I just beat, a power of nature, breaks through my thorax. A shockwave
wanted to sleep but I had to keep moving. I had to get home. A runs through me, as I am enclosed by a blinding ray of light.
camel appeared in front of me, but it was my dog telling me it could Waves of energy, a powerful tide, invisible strings lifting me up.
help me find my way. The sand around me suddenly swirled in the The ceiling cracks open, all barriers to the center of the universe
air like a huge tornado and drew me in. I was falling…falling…falling… crumble, as a newly found feeling of “alive” flows through my
Mountains towered overhead and I was standing in the middle ancient veins. Like a dream, I fly, as weightless as a flower blown
of a deserted highway, I tried to move but my body was frozen. away by the wind. As in a windless lake, I let my body float, my head
My muscles had stopped working. The sound of an engine coming submerged in the crystal clear water, shock-cold over my tired
my way reverberated around the valley. Louder and louder and eyelids, a youthful remembrance.
louder it grew. A lorry came speeding around the corner. My mouth Like a marionette, my limbs moved by the all-mighty puppeteer, I
opened to scream but no sound came out. The lorry was coming am taken away, on a journey through the years; my first breath, my
closer and closer. My heart was ready to explode. I watched in first Christmas, my first love, my first child, my last child, my last
horror as the lorry zoomed straight at me only feet away. love, my last Christmas, my last breath. A rush through the decades,
My eyes opened and I sat up covered in sweat from head to toe, no pause, memoirs of a mortal, a last taste of human life.
every inch of my body shaking. I needed water. I could see nothing A single tear leaves my glassy eyes. A moment waiting to pass,
but shadows in the darkness of my room. I extended my arms to patiently. I breathe in, a breath so conscious and as I let the now
feel my way around the room. Past my desk and the shelves, I found warm air escape my tired lungs, I feel as human as it gets.
the door. The familiar creek as I opened it echoed around the house. I am yanked up. Excruciating pain runs through me. My limbs, on
Down the long corridor, my eyes adjusted to the darkness slightly the brim of being dislodged from my body flatter lifelessly in the
and I could see all the portraits of past inhabitants of the house. storm-like air. My screams are muffled by the lake’s waters,
Finally, the door to the kitchen. My fingers twisted the doorknob. drowning me in my own anamneses.
The familiar kitchen stood in front of me, but something was off. Every ending is bitter-sweet.
I could hear a hissing coming from the fridge, but something drew I fly high.
me to it. I needed water. I opened the fridge door and the creature Among the darkness of the wide universe, I live my apotheosis.
pounced. I fell and as I hit the floor stunned, I jolted. I was in my The veil of the galaxy encloses me, as a mother would enclose
bedroom and the sunlight hurt my eyes. I groaned and turned her crying newborn. My body, merely a shell, released into a sea of
over allowing the nagging feeling of sleep to take over me. fear, of realization and never-ending misery; My soul, now amidst
Ariana Demetriades 3J the sacred magic of ubiquity, finally free.
Writing Competition Winner - 3rd place Amalia Basilia Doerflinger 5G

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