SHORT STORIES

 This week during our writing sessions we have been exploring the various Points Of View (P.O.V) that a short story can be written from, these include...

• The author can decide to become a character in the story and tell the events as they affect him or her
• The author can sit outside the action and observe everything that goes on. The author will 'know' what will and has happened to all the characters
• The author can tell their short story by describing what their character is thinking. The short story can go in many directions with the ideas linked by the narrator's thoughts   

Check out these short stories

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Steal

I saw him tip toeing across the marble floor of the kitchen heading slowly towards the i-pad. How did he get in? About a hundred questions raced through my mind at once.

I could smell last night’s dinner wafting from the oven, I could hear the tap dripping and I could see his shadow. 

He grabbed the i-pad and started to move slowly towards the exit. Suddenly out of nowhere a THUMP came from the laundry door. He looked around and a made a run for it.

I ran to the phone and called the police, they arrived on the scene not too soon afterwards and questioned me. If only my pussycat hadn’t thumped…

By Isobel

 Walk

 

The silence was broken by an owl’s hoot. Every gravestone was scarier than the last and the whole place reeked of decomposing corpses.

I can’t believe Rod tricked me into walking through the most haunted graveyard in New Zealand.

I’d been walking for only one minute but it felt as though it was a lot longer. What was that? There it is again! There it is, what no, don’t!!!!

“The cause of death of this boy is unknown” said Reddy the cop, “there are no signs of a blade nor bullet, this is a very odd murder”.

Behind a gravestone, the murdered watches them intently, “One down, one to go” she said gravely, “Ma ha ha ha” .

By Hannah