Competition Winners: Creative Writing

FIRST PLACE:
Summer Rain
Alby O’Neill, Holyport College

Your presence is like summer rain
Sweet but soon retreating
Your company’s warm radiance
Your hands fit perfectly in mine
with awkward fingers, sweaty palms
Time filled with silly drabble, dozy cuddles...

SECOND PLACE:
Out my way
Kezron Betts, Holyport College

Friday, end of the day, all I want to do
is do my physics and go home but you’re all
Oh miss I’m too hot,
Oh miss I’m too cold,
Oh My God...

FIRST PLACE:
The Merry-go-round
Sophie Morrisey, St Mary’s School Ascot

All you hear as you walk through the dark, dark woods is your breath, and the leaves and twigs that crunch beneath your feet. The forest stretches endlessly around you, the trees tall and looming in the blackness. You can only make out those closest to you: their rough bark, the moss that clings to them desperately, their browning leaves...

SECOND PLACE:
White Tulips
Olivia Anderson, The Marist School

It was early in the morning when Aziza and her parents staggered out from the wreckage to gaze upon the street that she used to know so well. During the previous night, an air strike had taken place – certainly the worst, and definitely not the last. It was as if they wanted to obliterate her town, along with all of its inhabitants, completely; as she closed her eyes...

THIRD PLACE:
The Citizen of Nowhere
Natasha-May Bowles, The Marist School

Tempestuous clouds gathered upon the horizon with menacing portent, vehement ink splashes obscuring the blanched sky. The rain fell in glistening sheets as it was expelled from the wrathful thunderclouds and plunged towards the litter-strewn earth with reckless abandon. The desolate landscape was wreathed by the acrid smoke of the flames...