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Never too Late – A Story Submitted by Raima Imran

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Raima Imran is the student of the Creative Writing Program by Author Ayesha Marfani. The author conducts online classes for the kids and this is what they have written during the class. The kids also practiced the art of storytelling. This is the original unedited work of the kid.

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Never Too Late

 

Kevin gazed at the final present. It was a present from his Aunt Leena for turning five years old. It was covered with a blue metallic wrapping paper and a pink ribbon with golden 5’’s on it. Kevin tore the wrapping paper and inside was a beige teddy bear. He named it “Teddy”. He knew right away that he and Teddy were going to be best friends.

All of a sudden, everything faded into a blur. And Teddy found himself staring at the ceiling while lying down on his bed.

Teddy jumped out of his bed and turned to his closet. He scurried out of the house and glanced around. “Empty as usual!” sighed Teddy as he crossed the road.

He peeped through the window of one of his friend’s house. Inside he saw his friend, Bunny the stuffed rabbit, sitting on the sofa looking glum because he wanted to be played with.

“Everyone ….” Thought Teddy, “Everyone in PettyVille is glum”.

He was right. PettyVille, the home for old toys who are not being played with anymore, was a gloomy place. The inhabitants rarely left their houses or interacted with each other. The weather wasn’t a big help either. It was always cold and gray.

As Teddy gazed at the small houses on the street, the chilly wind swirled around him, making him shiver. He remembered how he used to love the wind on his face when Kevin used to make him zoom all around the house on a toy airplane. He could never understand why Kevin gave up playing with him.

He nearly slipped on the wet road because he was too lost in his thoughts. Drops of rain came down splashing on Teddy’s forehead as he walked back to his house. His house was small and gray, just like all the other houses in town.

Before he entered his house, he glared at the hole that connected PettyVille to the real world. “My only hope to meet Kevin again is through that hole”, whispered Teddy to himself.

“No!” said Teddy, “It’s too risky … I can’t do it without a thorough plan”.

He glanced at the tiny shop a meters away. Maybe he could visit the shop to get ideas of how an escape from this gloom hole be made. So he went in.

The shopkeeper was a monster with six eyes. He didn’t talk at all. He just made gestures in response to Teddy’s questions.

Teddy sprinted back to his home. He rushed inside his house and flew towards his bed. He was hopeful but also exhausted and soon dozed off.

He startled awake as the first ray of light hit his face. The cogs in his head started spinning as he clumsily headed towards the window to examine the hole.

“Aha!”, Teddy cried, “There’s a nail sticking out from the edge of the hole. I can easily throw a lasso to grab on to it.”

After a couple of hours of fine-tuning, he came up with a spectacular plan. He was happy with himself. He could finally meet Kevin. At the same time, Teddy heard a creak from the door and he saw Kevin through the hole, tossing stuff around and mumbling something about not being able to find the TV remote.

Teddy woke up the next morning all excited because it was almost time to meet Kevin. He grabbed the lasso and hurried outside. He bumped into the fence and got scratched by a shrub in his haste. But nothing slowed him down. Upon reaching the hole, he threw up his lasso but it was only after a few failed attempts that it finally got hooked. He swiftly mounted and moved towards the top. Once he reached the top he leaped down into the real world.

Teddy heard Kevin watching TV in the distance, so he followed the sound to find him. As soon as he found Kevin, he jumped in front of the TV and shrieked, “Why won’t you play with me anymore? I never could understand why you stopped!”

Kevin did not reply for a long time and just stared at Teddy in fascination. When he did find his words, all that came out of his mouth was “What?!!, Whaaa … How?!, Who are you?”

This made Teddy even more agitated. He unplugged the TV and stuttered in anger “How can you not know who I am? I am your best friend!”

Kevin’s face turned red with fury and he screamed “I DON’T even care anymore. I am not a little child who plays with Teddy bears and monster trucks. Now go away. You are making me miss my program!” He stomped over to Teddy, snatched the plug from him and threw him all the way to the end of the corridor.

Pain shot through Teddy’s body but he somehow managed to get back on his feet and walked all the way back to his home. With a heavy heart, he limped towards his bed and sat down. He could have never expected what had just happened. But he felt even more determined to get through to Kevin and so he started pondering over a plan B.

He kept thinking, “If only I can make Kevin see what it is like down here in PettyVille! If only he could see what his carelessness is doing to all of us, I am sure he will change”. Just then an idea popped into his head. He had seen Kevin tweaking toy machines and had learnt a thing or two about them himself. He worked all night to make a machine that would help him carry out his plan. He seemed very happy about how clever his plan was. He couldn’t wait to carry it out.

After all the hard work, Teddy laid down on his bed and gazed at his amazing creation. He named it “The Shrink-a-majigger”.

He scurried outside with his masterpiece and tied a rope to it. Once again he threw up his lasso a few times until it was strong enough to carry the Shrink-a-majigger up. He used all his strength to pull himself and the machine up towards the hole.

He hopped down and saw Kevin, slouched on the sofa, playing a game on his phone. He crept up behind Kevin and shrunk him to the size of a toy.

“What do you want with me now?” screeched Kevin. “You’ll see.” was Teddy’s reply. He dragged Kevin into PettyVille while Kevin squirmed and kicked.

As Teddy hauled Kevin through the streets of PettyVille, Kevin saw a one of his toy robots, Buzzer, sitting alone on a bench staring into space while gray clouds thundered. It soon started to rain but buzzer did nothing to save himself from harm. He had the gloomiest look on his face. But he wasn’t the only one in town with that look. Everywhere Kevin went, he saw a sadness in everyone’s eyes. It was very troubling for Kevin.

By the end of it Kevin was almost in tears. “I didn’t know what I did that could cause all of this. I feel so sorry!”, he sobbed. Teddy put his hand on Kevin’s shoulder. “There’s no reason to cry,” he said softly. “Follow me”.

Teddy took Kevin back out of Perryville. He asked Kevin to stand straight while he hit the reverse button on the Shrink-a-majigger. Soon Kevin turned to his normal size.

Kevin was relieved to be back to himself but he did not leave right away. He hurriedly moved some boxes around from the corner of his room until he saw the dusty lid of his old toy box with a hole on the side. He opened the lid of PettyVille with a smile.

The sun started to shine brighter as Kevin took his old toys out of the box and remembered how much he loved playing with them. He thought about how foolish he was to think that he was too old to play with his toys. He now realized that you are never too old to play.

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Story Submitted by Rumaisa Saify – Sara’s Mission

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Rumaisa Saify is the student of Creative Writing Program by Author Ayesha Marfani. The author conducts online classes for the kids and this is what they have written during the class. The kids also practiced the art of storytelling. This is the original unedited work of the kid.

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Sara is a ten-year-old girl with dark blue eyes, golden long hair, wheatish complexion and the most interesting thing that adds to her cuteness were her chubby cheeks. She is a kind, friendly girl and has an impressive personality with a soft voice. That’s why she was the class leader. She was born with a silver spoon but she knew that her family won’t help her in her mission to save the earth so she was nervous yet anxious

Sara’s greatest fear was the destruction of the earth through pollution. It has scared her since she learned about it in science class in grade 3.

Sara hated the garbage thrown on the road. People throw-away liter from their cars’ windows and even in the school canteen, students leave their leftovers behind. Thinking of all these, Sara was lying on her cozy small sized bed with her favorite cartoon character, twilight, painted on its headboard. This was the place where she felt most confident as her father’s aggressive stares don’t follow her in here. She had pasted her drawings on the wall of her childhood and a few pictures of her family and friends. Her room is the place where she writes about everything that affects her like, Global warming. With all these in her mind, she fell asleep.

Suddenly, Sara had nightmares of burning garbage, cutting trees, black clouds due to vehicles smoke and dirty sea with dead fishes on its shore. She had a shivering body from her scary nightmares. She woke up and vowed to herself to save the world from pollution.

She sprang up from her bed and ran down the stairs with her feet thumping on the wooden steps, making a loud thudding sound. Hearing that, her father, sitting on the breakfast table,  gave her a long stare and nodded his head with disapproval. Sara thought in despair that she gave him a bad morning. I should have walked properly and presented myself beautifully with an endearing hug to my mostly aggressive father. Ignoring her inner-voice, she decided to present her idea to her rarely loving dad. She wished her dad was rarely aggressive and mostly loving. But she knew that this wish will never come true!

Her dad rejected her idea straightaway and said in his hoarse voice:  “you are too young for this” and left for his office. While Sara half-heartedly finished her breakfast, drinking her mom’s special homemade juice, feeling that she was sipping her own tears.

She dressed up for the school quickly and rushed for the bus as she was already late. She arrived at her school gloomily, searching for her best friend, Eman. Her eyes moved to-and-fro looking for a blond hair girl with dark green eyes. She soon found her sitting on the bench near the basketball area. Her eyes lit up when she saw her. Her sadness resided when an idea struck her. Yes, my solution is my best friend. She cursed herself why didn’t I thought of it earlier. Sara had no time to discuss it now but she was determined to give details to her friend during break time. Sara anxiously waited for the break time. Finally, the bell rang and she was super excited to share her feelings.

Both of them strolled towards the canteen as it was already crowded and they could not walk faster. They finally got a table in the right corner of the canteen close to the Hand-washing area. They ignored the wet floor and rushed towards the table. They didn’t bother to order food instead of focused on the problem discussion. Sara started her conversation with her nightmares, going on to explain her idea for stopping the pollution. She got so excited that her voice grew louder and louder. Everyone else heard what she was saying and everyone stared at her for some moment and then the room was filled with the greeting sound of students laughing at her idea. Few commented that “You are too young for this”. She held her tears back and went to sit at the corner of the canteen. With her hungry stomach growling, she attended the remaining classes and ran to the Bus area.

While she was waiting for the bus, she saw one of the school girls waiving to her but she assumed it to be her illusion as her vision got blur with her tears. That girl came closer and said to her that she will drop her at home. She realized that girl was her classmate, Dana who lives close to her home. Sara agreed gratefully as she had no stamina to wait longer for the bus. This day was the most exhausting and humiliating for her!

Gloomily she moved with Dana to sit in her white sedan car. But suddenly, the red logo labeled on the cars’ front door caught her attention. How can she forget that Dana’s father, Uncle Moiz, was the Manager at the Environment Management company?

Uncle Moiz was the kindest father Sara had ever known. He was already briefed about today’s incident so he spoke to me in his pleasant tone. “I will not say that you are too young for this. But your mission will take time. You are a well-groomed mature girl, so Dana and I will help you in this task. I am giving you 48 hours to think of a solution to solve your mission”. With this, Sara felt that the car has stopped moving and realized that she was already outside her home. She waved him good-bye with the promise to meet up again after 2 days with a proper conclusion.

Sara drafted her plan to present it to Uncle Moiz. She wanted it to be perfect and very impressive. Her plan was to make a contest, that whoever uses fewer plastic bottles will be the winner of the Steel Vacuum bottles. She will also paste posters on the notice board to create awareness about the causes of pollution.  Her major task was to conduct a project named “Go Green”. Under this project, she will ask the students to plant trees with different seeds. These plants will be decorated in the school corridor. She was sure that this project will bring success to her mission.

With goosebumps in her stomach, she woke up the next morning. She hurriedly got ready for school. To her surprise, Dana’s father was waiting for her at her doorstep. Dana was as excited as Sara. They both greeted each other cheerfully. She started explaining passionately to Uncle Moiz all about her plan. Dana’s father was glad to hear that. So he said in his pleasant voice that “I will talk to the Principal about your idea and convince her.

Fortunately, the Principal loved Sara’s brilliant idea and appreciated her. Sara was then allowed to paste posters on the notice board. Those who laughed at her before were now running behind her for participation in the contest. One whole day at school was spent drawing posters. Everyone came up with brilliant ideas such as, Say no to plastics, Save our Earth by 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle),  Don’t destroy our planet, Save Water, Plant More Trees and finally, a special one designed by Sara and Dana was : Say no to Pollution, Say yes to Solution.

The next day, Sara and Dana distributed pots and few seeds, arranged by Uncle Moiz, to every student. This was done to encourage planting, a solution for pollution. The contest was successfully conducted in the break time where everyone participated happily.

Sara’s struggle was very successful. Everybody after that used Vacuum bottles and avoid plastic as much as possible. Her school was the greenest school in the city. Even Sara’s father was now proud of her and became her rarely aggressive and most loving father. Finally, Sara’s wish came true.

This story teaches us that you are never too young to work for any good cause. It always leads you to success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Story Submitted by Habiba Noman -The Big Change

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Habia Noman is the student of the Creative Writing Program by Author Ayesha Marfani. The author conducts online classes for the kids and this is what they have written during the class. The kids also practiced the art of storytelling. This is the original unedited work of the kid.

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A BIG CHANGE

Alizah, a 10-year-old girl, with peachy lips, dark brown eyes small face and thick blonde shiny hair. She was a bright student, a good reader, and an active sports girl. She used to participate in assembly recitation. Everyone used to admire her voice. She never lied to anyone and was very fond of making good new friends.

Three classmates of Alizah Nida, Saba, and Fatima grouped together. They were bold. Nida was tallest so she thought she’d be a leader; Saba was chubby and always hungry. Her parents were working and she used to bring money for lunch that was not enough so she joined in with Nida so she can share in other’s lunch. Fatima was timid and shy so she just followed Nida as she said so. Nida uses Fatima for her personal favors to get lunch for Saba, complete her homework and stand in canteen queues. On the other hand, Alizah always wanted to be friends with Fatima because she thought she is a nice girl. She wanted to save her from the mean company.

After coming home Alizah used to pray as soon as possible, take a bath and tidy up her room. After lunch, She used to clean the table to help her mother who was busy with her younger siblings. One day Fatima called Alizah’s home and her mother answered. Fatima told her that Alizah is getting punished for talking in class during a lesson and its getting usual day by day. Alizah’s mom got upset and scolded her for being talkative in class and instructed her to be more attentive. The next day Alizah and her friends Huma and Ariba were targeted the same way. Nida laughed at them saying “poor girls! Mama scolded you, very sad: now behave well in class”.

Fatima felt guilty but Nida and Saba took her away.

In school the last unit was PE and Alizah was swinging in the garden when Nida and Saba pushed her hard. Alizah almost crashed on both of her knees. Fatima and her other classmates rushed to pick her up. At the same moment, PE teacher took Nida and Saba to the Principals office and Alizah was taken to First Aid. Sometime later, Alizah was called in the office and was asked to tell what actually happened. First Alizah looked at both Nida and Saba, they were ashamed and guilty. Alizah thought for a moment and told the principal that the girls were just standing nearby and actually it was her own fault because she was swinging fast. The principal asked her again if there’s anything more but Alizah affirmed her that there is nothing to worry about.

Nida and Saba apologized to Alizah for their arrogant and mean behavior. She forgave them and asked them to not to do this ever. They promised her. Alizah said, “We are friends and will be forever”.

A Wish Gone Wrong by Ayooq Fatima

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Ayooq Fatima is the student if Creative Writing Program by Author Ayesha Marfani. The author conducts online classes for the kids and this is what they have written during the class. The kids also practiced the art of storytelling. This is the original unedited work of the kid.

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Name: Ayooq Fatima

Age: 8 years old

     A Wish Gone Wrong

10 years old Ahmed is in bed he could not sleep he was thinking that when he could play Fortnite. His black shining eyes were dreaming about the game day and night. He was moving his hands in his black curly hair and thinking an idea to play the game. His mind was awake and he could hardly fall asleep. Ahmed looked at the other bed in the room. Ali, his tall and slim brother was in deep sleep. The game belongs to Ali, Ahmed’s elder brother. He did not let Ahmed touch the game. Thoughts were making Ahmed tired now. So he turned the side and closed his eyes.

 

Next day, while coming back from school he was extremely happy. He got an A in maths exam. He went straight to his mother, who was making lunch in the kitchen. He shouted excitedly mom, mom I got an A in maths exam. His mother replied wow you are a wonderful boy. Tell me what do you want to eat, she said happily. Ahmed said I want to eat pizza. His mom said sure I will bake it tonight. He said mom I want a gift. Mom said, what do you want dear? He said I want permission from Ali Bhai to play Fortnite like him. She said sure, I will talk to Ali.

 

At the dinner table, mom asked Ali Bhai if he can share his game with his younger brother. Ali Bhai refused to let Ahmed play that game. He said firmly that he is too small to play the game, he should play football and cricket with his age fellows. Ahmed shouted out loud and threw the plate. The game had taken over Ahmed’s mind. He was furious and hated everything. He was crying loudly, banged the door. All the celebration of his success was ruined.

 

Ali was reading a book on the reading table. Mom came and asked Ali to adjust with his little brother playing the game. Ali said, no it will affect his study and it is not for his age. Kids get easily addicted to this game and it has bad effect on mind and health. Mom said yes I know but he is misbehaving and not letting him play this game will make him worse. I will allow him for an hour after he has done with his studies. I hope you will b kind enough to share your game with your little brother. Ali smiled and said he is not that little and smart enough to make us do for him whatever he wants.

 

After a while, Ali went to Ahmed’s room and said that you can play the game but after your studies and only for an hour. He was so excited. He ran to the PS4, turned it on and played the game for a while.

Then he saw the challenges in the game, after completing one challenge he was curious about the next challenge and couldn’t wait. His mom came to him and said that it has been an hour, you should finish your game now and turn it off.

He was angry, he felt that it has been some while only not an hour.  His mom said look you started playing at 5:00 and now it’s 6:10. He angrily turned off the PS4 and went to his room. At night he could not sleep because he was thinking of the game. Next morning, while eating breakfast he was again thinking of the challenges. Even at school, his mind was occupied with the game characters and graphics. He was thinking of the game day and night. He left playing with his friends. He was hardly taking his meals on time. He was ignoring his health and studies. Once he starts playing it was hard for mom and Ali Bhai to get him to shut down the PlayStation.

One day at school he was going to the class when he fell down and became unconscious. The principal called his father and told him what the doctor at school was saying. The doctor said that Ahmed has a miserable condition of mental and physical health. He had dark circles under his eyes due to poor sleep pattern. He became weak due to not eating proper food. Dad was furious on Ahmed and he was thinking he has to be strict with Ahmed. Now everyone was thinking about what will his father decide.

Next afternoon Dad called a family meeting. Nobody dare to ask a question. It was a huge shame that the whole school witnessed the principal’s complaint against them. Ali Bhai was also angry at Ahmed. Dad gave a long lecture which meant that nobody will raise a single voice against his decision. He announced that he is going to sale PS4 and both the boys will b enrolled in karate and football classes. Dad also warned that they both have to follow the timetable and diet chart he was giving them. Ahmed was sad and ashamed. He was thinking only if he could keep balance in screen time and other activities, may b they don’t have to follow this strict routine. But this episode at school made Ahmed realize that it all happened because of his arrogant behaviour..his best wish gone wrong showed him the harsh reality and now he had to face the consequences.

 

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Story Submitted by Alizay Irfan – Truth Stands for Itself

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Truth stands for itself

By Alizay Irfan

One day Mr. Ahmed came home from work and told his wife Khadija that he got transferred to the other city.  Mr. Ahmed works in a mining company as an IT person. He migrated to Australia 10 years ago from Pakistan along with his wife, their daughter Ayesha was born in Australia in 2010. Ayesha is now 9 years old girl with short black curly hair, whitish complexion. She studies in year four in a local public school in Perth. Ayesha was not very happy with the news which her dad just broke.

 

One day when Ayesha came back from school she walked into the kitchen and saw that everything was packed up in boxes and there were suitcases everywhere. Ayesha went to her parent’s room and said ‘Why is everything packed up? We are moving house because your dads got a new job and you will go to a new school in Albany, said her mum. Go start packing your stuff we are leaving tomorrow, said, mom.

 

Next morning the Movers came to move their furniture and other stuff to take it to Albany. After the mover’s truck left, they also left from Perth to go to Albany which is 4 hours drive from Perth. After a few hours of driving, they finally made it to their new house, Ayesha had no idea how the new house looks like. When she first stepped into the new home Ayesha wished she never moved house, she didn’t want to leave her old school in Perth and her friends. Ayesha’s dad told her she would start her new school in two days, but first, they had to get settled in and unpack everything.

 

Two days later when it was the first day at Albany primary Ayesha’s mum took her to school where she met her new teacher. Ayesha’s teacher was waiting for her at the gate. Mrs. Jillian was very nice she showed Ayesha to the classroom and introduced her to everyone and then gave her a tour of the school. The school was really pretty it had lots of trees, and flowers gardens and tiny insects like ladybugs and caterpillars surrounding the two very big playgrounds. In the first period, Ayesha met a girl called Raniya. Raniya was very kind and would play with Ayesha when the bell rang for the break. After a while, Ayesha went to meet other kids in her class. They were all very nice except for one girl called Somaya. Somaya was very rude and she would not let anybody else talk to Ayesha.

 

The next day at school when they were doing science everybody wanted to be Ayesha’s partner but Somaya wouldn’t let anybody be her partner Somaya would threaten to hit them if they were her partner, but Ranyia didn’t care she would just tell Mrs. Jillian if Somaya hit her. When it was break time Ayesha went to play with all the other kids, but Somaya wouldn’t let her just when Ayesha was about to leave Raniya stopped her. Raniya told Ayesha that being scared of Somaya didn’t help her she had to stick up for her own rights, so Ayesha went back and she didn’t care either she didn’t have to listen to what Somaya said she was allowed to play with anybody. When Somaya saw Ayesha she was furious just when Somaya was about to burst the bell rang.

 

On Friday Somaya was really mad at Ayesha so she stole somebody’s money and hid it in Ayesha’s bag. When they realized their money was stolen Somaya told them that Ayesha stole it, then they would look in Ayesha’s bag and they found the money in her bag so they wouldn’t talk to her. Somaya kept on doing this and each time Ayesha was losing more and more and more friends.

 

Ayesha had haven enough over the weekend Ayesha had formed a plan. She was going to catch Somaya on camera and she was going to show everybody that she did not steal their money she was going to prove it. On Monday Ayesha brought two cameras to school and hid them in the class. She pressed record and left the room she waited until Somaya came.

 

Ayesha                              Huda                         Somaya

 

When first period ended everybody left the class except Somaya. Somaya waited until everybody left the class so she could steal something else from someone’s desk to put in Ayesha’s bag but she had no clue that she was on camera. After she stole Huda’s diary from her desk and put it in Ayesha’s bag, she left the class to have her lunch. She told Huda, I saw Ayesha steal your diary and put it in her bag. When the bell went everybody went into the class Huda told the teacher that Ayesha stole my diary. The teacher checked Ayesha’s bag and found the diary, just when the teacher was about to give a punishment to Ayesha, Ayesha said, I want to tell you something before you punish me. Then Ayesha showed the footage to the teacher and the teacher was shocked. Then the teacher talked to Somaya why she has done that? Somaya confessed that she was jealous of Ayesha that everybody wants to be her friend who made her insecure that all of her classmates are leaving her and going to Ayesha. Somaya was ashamed for her actions and was very apologetic to Ayesha and her class fellows. Ayesha hugged Somaya and said, “Dear you are very brave to confess what you have done”. As it takes lots of courage to admit and now onwards we all are good friends.